A U F  A B W E G E N  RELEASE INFO

cd-audio
release date: 12.04.2009
artist:  ASMUS TIETCHENS
title: EINE MENGE PAPIER
order no.: aatp27
time: 20:40 min
full colour paper sleeve, printed inner sleeve, mini-cd on clear full size printed 8” disc 500 copies / designed by Asmus Tietchens

On “Eine Menge Papier”:

“Eine Menge Papier” assembles 20 minutes of sounds derived from using paper as the sound souce. Two tracks originally came out as a limited 7” record on the austrian Syntactic label in the 1990ies and appear here for the first time on CD. The other two tracks were planned for a follow up 7” on the same label that never materialized. The fifth track is a study of sonic material in the same series. There are two further tracks from the P.I.G. series that are considered by the artists as failed attemps. These remain in the closet. The five sonic movements on “Eine Menge Papier” go back to the Tietchens sound right before he started the Mengen series, using primarily sine waves and white noise. “Eine Menge Papier” is an interesting documentation of the transitioin in Tietchens’ sound from the concretish, post-industrial rumblings and textures to the more refined, abstract and cold atmospheres.
Asmus Tietchens has been producing electronic music since the 1960ies and is one of the most renowned sound artists today in Germany. In the last five years he was awarded twice the SWR state radio prize “Karl Sczuka Preis” for radio art. He has released more than 80 records and CDs on labels all around the world.
Info:
www.aufabwegen.com
www.tietchens.de