kunststoff | cs017

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Ute Wassermann voice

Birgit Ulher trumpet

Total Time 1:00:00 © 2004

Recorded on 7 and 27 December 2003 at home and at Centre d'Estudis Musicals

Cover design Carlos Santos

Kunststoff strikes a unique balance between a mostly undemonstrative exterior and a subtle and sophisticated inner energy. The idea of a voice/trumpet duo might seem unlikely, but what is immediately remarkable about this music is the way that a single composite instrument is created by the two performers, in which their use of unfamiliar techniques and articulations can lead either to an internally-active unison or a complex tangle of interweaving threads. The structures of these ten pieces are improvised freely but each with an intense concentration on a musical centre of gravity which shifts from one piece to the next. The result has as little to do with jazz as with the current trend towards – reductionism - in improvised music and is a document of an inspired collaboration.

Richard Barrett