RE: [microsound] ensemble

[koukli nek <kouklinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for that information, i will go and also check out the 
website. i think there are sound bits in it and more info.

thanks

Hans.

>I just ordered their CD 'Sketch Proposals' on Rephlex.
>
>Kent Williams (kent@xxxxxxxxxx) posted this to the IDM list a 
couple of
>months ago, which got me so interested:
>
>
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>Ensemble -- Sketch Proposals (Rephlex CAT101)
>
>Rephlex is a label that by turns amazes and frustrates fans.  For 
every
>Bogdan Raczynski there's a DMX Crew (or Like A Tim) -- brilliant 
state
>of the art stuff contrasted with prankish silliness.  It's like they
>really don't give a fuck -- which is interesting with respect to 
>using conceptual art as a business model, but annoying when 
you've dropped
>your entertainment dollar on something that's unlistenable.
>
>All is forgiven when they give us something as musically 
emotional involving
>as the new Ensemble record.  Ensemble seems to me to pick up 
several threads
>in electronic music and fuse them into something wonderful.
>
>>From Pole/Oval/Etc they've incorporated the glitch aesthetic of 
percussion.
>>From Seefeel/My Bloody Valentine they've picked up the torch of 
sad,
>vibrato-free female vocals.  In fact when listening to Ensemble 
there are
>times when it seems like that My Bloody Valentine album that will 
never
>happen -- pop music that celebrates vagueness and lateral 
discursion.
>
>And the assymetric lurching melodicism balanced against 
broken-radio 
>breakbeats seems to me to deliver on a promise that Oval never 
did, of
>making
>an actual connection to the listener.
>
>Which isn't to say that Ensemble is derivative, except in the sense 
that
>no music occurs in a vacuum.  They've just managed to 
synthesize their 
>influences into something that works.  It is music that I'd love to 
see 
>performed live, really loud, even as it's overall impact is of quiet.
>
>I'm hoping that they have a long career with Rephlex as they 
seem
>to have plenty to say ...
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>
>someone also posted a URL with sound bites from the cd but i 
didnt book mark
>it.
>
>m.
>"The camera chucks a complete wobbly if you run downwards 
into a wall." 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: koukli nek [mailto:kouklinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:10 AM
>> To: microsound
>> Subject: [microsound] ensemble
>> 
>> 
>> - hallo everyone,
>> i have seen recently a video on viva (German tv ) from a group 
>> called ensemble, and i have been stunned by the symbiosis 
>> between the visuals and the music and the mix between data 
>> corruption music and more accessible stuff.
>> does anyone know more about this?
>> 
>> 
>> best
>> Hans. 
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