Frank Bretschneider - EXP

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EXP is a music-visual work based on the idea that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. an attempt to assimilate the qualities found in music – including movement, rhythm, tempo, mood, intensity and compositional structure – within visual phenomena. the music for the project was composed of specifi c generated and selected waveforms, feedbacks, impulses, clicks, the sound of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, light and other radiation. in addition and since the animation is mainly driven by sound frequency and intensity, the sonic quality of these sounds makes it possible to obtain an optimal effect on the graphics motion. in combination with several other ways of controlling the animation – from midi programming to applying motion curves – the visualization represents an exact reproduction of the audible occurrences. as a consequence the computed images often attain an unexpected beauty, from simple geometrical patterns to extraordinarily complex forms. The package contains a compact disc audio with 35 tracks and a compact disc data with the live visuals of tracks 01 to 20 as quicktime movie fi le (*.mov).

boomkat says

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Raster Noton's rhythmic auteur, Frank Bretschneider, presents his first album in three years, a "music-visual project based on the idea that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music". 'EXP' is an attempt to assimilate the qualities of music, namely rhythm, movement, tempo, mood, intensity and compositional structure within the visual aspect. The music for the project is arranged from an array of generated and selected waveforms sourced from pure electricity, magnetism, light and other radiation. These sounds inform the visual animations, paralleling their changes in frequency, intensity and shape, attempting to exactly reproduce the audible occurences. Of course, that's pretty hard to grasp without seeing the animation so we'll just concentrate on the music. The album is divided between 35 tracks, each ranging between 13 seconds and nearly 3 minutes. Living up to his reputation as a master digital craftsman, Bretschneider uses his abilities to sculpt cochlea engulfing bass tones and ultra-visceral hi's, occasinally arriving at moments where he creates the illusion of 3D electro-acoustic environments with spectacular depth perceptions. Between these hyperreal scapes and his avant B-boy beats this is a special album that should warrant repeat listens for those who really want to explore every nook and cranny of his artificial spaces. Very highly recommended.

http://boomkat.com/cds/305652-frank-bretschneider-exp

http://www.normanrecords.com/records/116023

holy fuck

yes please

mmmmmmmmm the samples on boomkat

*fap*

It would be cool if I could buy this TONIGHT at the r-n show in Boston.

Suck it, rest of the world

OH MY FUCK

I did indeed just buy this

  On 5/13/2010 at 10:01 PM, beariksson said:

mmmmmmmmm the samples on boomkat

 

*fap*

You got me.

  On 5/13/2010 at 11:22 PM, Ascdi said:

It would be cool if I could buy this TONIGHT at the r-n show in Boston.

 

Suck it, rest of the world

dose this mean raster-noton is doing a full tour of north america?

the few bit's of exp i have heard have sounded amazing-found rand used on vinyl plates twelve or so years back

and have been sonically attached to bretschneider ever since-raster-noton is unstoppable.

pre-ordered.

Okay, I just checked this out for the first time. Non-obvious info for the nerds:

Video version is a single .mov file on the included DVD (not a CD, but also not a DVD for DVD players—I guess you'd call it a data DVD).

18:05 in length, 1.92 gb file, 800x600x30fps, 44.1/24 PCM audio inside the file. It's very minimal but it kicks ass

There are "chapters" in the video file that must correspond to tracks from the CD. I was initially worried that the CD was just the same audio (and therefore, short), but it's not.

CD is 35 tracks and just about 35 minutes, so it must be different/extended material. Haven't listened to the CD yet.

My recommendation is buy

EDIT: the show last night was rad. The material Aoki played was very chill, almost like a slightly glitchier Dabrye. Wasn't expecting that. Byetone is savage

over & out

THX Ascdi

Tell as more after you listen the CD.

This is on raster-noton site.

Are the visuals like this? Looks awesome.

preview!!!!!!!!111

  On 5/16/2010 at 3:04 PM, beariksson said:

preview!!!!!!!!111

http://www.raster-noton.net/download/rn-108_exp/exp_preview.mov

Nice! THX!

This disappointed me. Too boring, even for a raster-noton release. Rhythm was so much better.