This was an artist who I had never heard of before, but no matter. This had been released on Bureau B and that was good enough for me.
Bureau B | GER | CD | 2012 | BB117
# 20 • Schneider TM: Construction Sounds GER CD [2012]
- Construction Sounds
- Container
- Pneumanisch
- Grinder In The Sky
- Container Redux
- Bimanual Complexity
I had expected music redolent of that sound of construction. Perhaps evocative of the minimal titles. What was delivered was a field recording of construction sounds. Nothing more!
I stuck with track one for about seven of its thirteen and a half minutes until I realized that it was not going to coalesce into a musical composition! I hurriedly fast forwarded through each of the remaining tracks in disbelief. As much as I have a taste for minimal, reductive work that sounds like noise, this went beyond the pale! And straight onto my “out” pile!
CONCLUSION: recycle…immediately!!!
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I was irritated this morning, because when I woke up, someone was running a concrete saw next door. Painful. I retreated to the other side of my house, where someone immediately started using a noisy machine to cut shrubbery. Then, someone else started mowing a lawn, and then *another* lawnmower fired up. All within five minutes. And now this post.
MAKE IT STOP! :-)
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JT – You BLOODY FOOL!!! Don’t complain!! Record it, edit the files and flog it to Bureau B!!! It’s all musik! And they’ll pay for the privilege! [though you will have to give up your publishing to them]
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ah what as Test Dept. wrought! -or Schaeffer, Éloy, Dufour and the rest of the Musique Concrète masters for that matter…At about minute 6 I began to realize I wasn’t paying attention to the track, but it was providing a background to what I was doing on the computer…maybe it serves the purpose it was created for…
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