The idea for this CD production arose after the première of Alex Buess’s
work «Parallaxe A» in February 2001, within the context of the
«Europäischer Musikmonat 2001» in Basel. In its original
version with 24 musicians, the recording of this work proved itself to be
difficult, since an enormous amount of sound, played as well as electronically
produced, is concerned which, in its intensity and density, can only be reproduced
unsatisfactorily in stereo. Therefore, the idea of the «biomechanical»
version of «Parallaxe A» arose, which we later recorded and produced
in the studio.
Dror Feiler and Tim Hodgkinson have very close relations to Alex Buess’s
music, as far as physical and psychic energy, and their music’s intensity
are concerned. For this reason we have decided to combine two pieces by these
two composers as well as an older Alex Buess composition with «Parallaxe
A». All pieces include electronics and contain a certain affinity in
the aesthetics of sound and musical language. Another common ground of these
three composoers is that they haven’t taken the traditional academic
composer’s way, but come as interpreters of unconventional experiments
with instruments and sound material. All three of them play saxophone and
other wind instruments, they work with electronics, and they have years of
experience as musicians, instrumentalists, and composers. Alex Buess and Tim
Hodgkinson play together in the experimental rockband «GOD»; Dror
Feiler’s bands are named «Lokomotive Konkret», or «The
Too Much Too Soon Orchestra».
Alex Buess Parallaxe A (Biomechanische Version 2, 2002)
Christoph Bösch Flute; Toshiko Sakakibara Clarinet; Beatrice Zawodnik Oboe; Dirk Amrein Trombone; Simon Lilly Trumpet; Daniel Buess Percussion; Daniel Stalder Percussion; Philippe Schnepp Contrabass; Claudia Brunner Contrabass
Tim Hodgkinson Repulsion (1997)
Toshiko Sakakibara Clarinet ; Dirk Amrein Trombone; Maurizio Grandinetti Electric Guitar; Daniel Buess Percussion
Dror Feiler Restitutio in Pristinum (1996)
Friedemann Treiber Violin; Dirk Amrein Trombone; Raphael Camenisch Sopranino Saxophone; Maurizio Grandinetti Electric Guitar; Daniel Buess Percussion
Alex Buess Maxwell’s
Demon (1992/93)
Nenad Markovic Trompete; Dirk Amrein Trombone; Samuel Wettstein Keyboard; Emanuel Schnyder E-Bass; Daniel Buess Schlagzeug; Daniel Stalder Schlagzeug; Matthias Würsch Schlagzeug