Frank Bretschneider

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5...according to our Ant on Thu 20 May, 2010.

I've been looking forward to this one... Bretschneider's 'Rhythm' album still really does the business for me so this is an exciting time. 'Exp' is a double-disc set comprising a data CD with visual work and an audio CD of ermmm.... sound, music & audio. Just listening to the audio I can't help but feel I'm missing out on the full multi-media experience but it stands alone as being pretty darn cool. Lots of linear and abstract forms, again playing around with rhythm, but here there are also more textural pieces, bleeps, pulses and good old clicks. Certainly fans of Alva Noto, SND and high quality electronic minimalism should get on the case with this.

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EXP is a music-visual work based on the idea that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. an attempt to assimilate the qualities found in music – including movement, rhythm, tempo, mood, intensity and compositional structure – within visual phenomena. the music for the project was composed of specifi c generated and selected waveforms, feedbacks, impulses, clicks, the sound of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, light and other radiation. in addition and since the animation is mainly driven by sound frequency and intensity, the sonic quality of these sounds makes it possible to obtain an optimal effect on the graphics motion. in combination with several other ways of controlling the animation – from midi programming to applying motion curves – the visualization represents an exact reproduction of the audible occurrences. as a consequence the computed images often attain an unexpected beauty, from simple geometrical patterns to extraordinarily complex forms. The package contains a compact disc audio with 35 tracks and a compact disc data with the live visuals of tracks 01 to 20 as quicktime movie fi le (*.mov).

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