Michael J. Schumacher/
Noetinger/eRikm/Doneda
beet5/Nervures
12" (E109)
beet5 takes Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto as its starting point.
The slow movement was recorded using a special turntable for
the blind that plays back records at quarter speed. I had an old
recording of the piece lying around; I forget who the pianist
was. The slowed down version was very striking, recognisable as
Beethoven’s music but much sadder, more fragile. I developed
a piece around this, using my usual array of synthesized sounds,
field recordings, ‘borrowed’ and improvised stuff, etc., and
performed this one direct to disk, which is the version presented
here. I tried to continue refining the piece, working it towards true
‘installation’ status, but it didn’t really come together. Eventually
I abandoned the project. — MJS
MJS: composer, synthesist, recordist and performer
Michael Moser, cello; Shelley Burgon, harp
Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun: incidental percussion
Thanks to Barbara Geyer and Martin Walch for the record player.
Mastered by Themistoklis Pantelopoulos.
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The trio of Jérôme Noetinger (electroacoustic devices), eRikm
(CD-J and electronics) and Michel Doneda (soprano and sopran-
ino saxophones) first convened in 2006 at the Mulhouse Jazz
Festival in France. A tour followed a year later, and then a CD
on the Ronda label. Nervures was recorded in 2007 and mixed
for this release by eRikm in 2010. An alternate version is avail-
able on Dos D’ânes (Ronda RND12, 2009).
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
metamkine.com
erikm.com
puffskydd.free.fr/neda
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See also Michael J. Schumacher (E78) and eRikm (E94)
First edition of 200 copies
