Limited Edition (150)
Improvisations: Feb-Apr 2007
Robert Curgenven + Derek Holzer
Umatic
2007

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improvisation for field recordings and analog synthesizer

Robert Curgenven: field recordings, prerecorded piano
Derek Holzer: analog synthesizer, pure data

Holzer and Curgenven both draw upon their diverse backgrounds in field recording, sound art, modern composition, noise and experimental music to create this live sonic environment. Their improvisations focus on the interrelation of Curgenven's detailed recordings from the Australian Outback and a selection of prerecorded piano resonances juxtaposed with Holzer's slowly modulated, shimmering and crackling synthesizer tones. The combination of these sources poses the question: what is "real", what is "constructed"? Where is the border between the actual sound event, its digital reproduction and its sonic simulation?

Links to tracks from the CD can be found on the download page.