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Luigi Archetti, Ian Anüll, Marc Zeier (G*Park)
Made in China
LP
signed and numbered
(150 copies)
limited edition (
350 copies)
Released: march 2009 (During the exhibition of the three artists at the gallery Trudelhaus, Baden)
listen one minute
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Frozen Solid
Music by Luigi Archetti
Interpreted by:
Luigi Archetti guit & electronics
Michael Heisch double-bass
Moritz Müllenbac cello
David Schnebeli viola
Label: Creative Works Records, Switzerland, CW 1055
Released: 2010
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Niederländische Sprichwörter
Luigi Archetti (Gitarren, Mandolinen, Electronics) und Michael Heisch (Kontrabass,
E-Bass, Electronics).
Label: Creative Works Records, Switzerland, CW 1051
Released: 2008
The Netherlandisch Proverbs
a concept album with 126 short compositions
Luigi Archetti und Michael Heisch spent over two years experimenting
in the studio. The result is the album the "Netherlandish Proverbs" –
a musical approach to the painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525
– 1569). Conceived by a process of random selection, the album presents
the listener with freshly perceptible, kaleidoscopic-like audio experiences.
"The Netherlandish Proverbs" is one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's
best known paintings. It contains over 100 sayings and idioms illustrating
human weaknesses in a lively and frequently witty way. Luigi Archetti and Michael
Heisch used the profusion of ideas of this visual world in order to approach
the decentralised organisation of the painting with instruments such as the
mandolin, the e-guitar, double bass and e-bass, as well as with electronic
sounds.
The stimulus generated by the painting takes its effect musically
on several levels: firstly, the number of the miniature compositions
corresponds precisely with the number of the proverbs portrayed in
the painting; thus there is agreement on the formal level. Secondly,
the stylistic variety of Bruegel's painting. in which allegorical
portrayals and folkloristic elements go hand in hand, is reflected
in the variety of the material used by Archetti and Heisch. The apparent
orientation towards folkloristic sound belongs to the same level
as the subtly differentiated treatment of the noise-sounds of different
kinds.
Thirdly, Luigi Archetti and Michael Heisch follow the decentralised
construction of the painting, and thus also of Bruegel's visual conception.
Their CD is put together from tiny fragments, whose order is not
conclusively determined. In keeping with the technical limitations
of the CD player, the 126 pieces are divided into 99 tracks. The
listener is encouraged to play the tracks in the random selection
mode of his CD player. From the apparently coincidental sequence
emerges an unconventional cosmos of different sounds and sound sequences. This
broken perception, the non-logical sequence of splinters of sound
corresponds most closely with the idea developed by Bruegel in his
visual composition. The musical conversion is not an illustration
of the painted scenes but an independent work of art. In fact, this
procedure is triggered by a reaction to our contemporary present:
our perceptive skills, then as now, are faced with the task of meaningfully
networking the profusion of the stimuli of different origin and constitution
with which we are daily bombarded. And it is precisely this act of
perception that is the subject of Archetti and Heisch's artistic
elaboration.
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Luigi Archetti & Jan Schlegel
Silent Surface
Label: Untit Records, SwitzerlandUTR 4138
release date: 01.02.2003
Slow Motion at the Speed of Light
In a world in which the accoustic signs of the times ever more point to storm,
in which we are constantly subjected to wild gesticulation and loud pounding
for instant attention, together with bogus packages full of meaningless self-expression
– in such times it is no small pleasure to be offered an opportunity to hold
hand to ear and just listen.
«Silent Surface» – 'surface' does not carry the meaning of 'superficial' – by
and with Luigi Archetti (guitar, electronics) and Jan Schlegel (base, electronics)
is definitely listening music. It cannot be approached impatiently, even less
by means of push and shove. This would be disastrous. One should and must wait,
almost patiently lie in ambush for it. One is being tested and educated in reticence.
Not very easy, not very self-evident. But if and when, then one can discover
a sound-world of great refinement – free of all false pathos – that can be elucidated.
It comes across as, on the one hand, festive and magical, and on the other hand
extremely sensitive, porous. And when we feel its breath on our ear, when it
whispers to us its secret, which we don't want to share with anyone, we recognize,
in the intimacy of the moment, simultaneously, both the expansiveness and the
largesse which is to be found in this music.
Previously unheard of sounds are revealed, sounds which, like water-colors on
grainy paper, bleed into cloud shapes, and also rhythmic structures, which incise
themselve into our musical consciousness like sharply etched lines into copper
plate. The garulous growl of the base, the chiselled chirping of the guitar (and
it can even, unsurprisingly, be the other way around), expansive surfaces and
minute miniatures, iridescent friction und well-meaning instrumental gestures,
all this and much more expands within our auditory canal, telling slow-motion
stories at the speed of light.
Faith is needed. This has to be learned. A musician cannot just come along and
fake it with shiny and expensive electronics (well he could, but then…) Years
of experience, years of playing together have gone into this. A good, well-developed
craft can let the simplicity of perfection speak for itself. Unpretentiousness
and stubbornness, wise caution and a conscious and determined stride, ostinato
and crescendo: these are the poles between which they display their damned clever
sounds. Magicians working without a bag of tricks, priests dedicated to the greater
good, no hocus-pocus, no fakery or frippery, no baroque costumes, no obtrusive
stage scenery.
Archetti's and Schlegel's music can be savored on the tongue like a well-matured
wine. Patience and the sheer love of pleasure is what counts. All one needs to
do is simply to stop and listen.
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HULU PROJECT - Cubic Yellow
Special guest: Dieter Moebius
Captain Trip Records, Tokyo, CTCD-192
Award - "Selection Swiss Radio International"
".. this exceptional downtempo electronica album with hoovering
swells that sound like Dom & Roland played at 33 1/3 rpm instead
of 45 along with skittering breakbeats not unlike a stripped down
Amon Tobin. Fans of Biosphere or The Orb should definitely take note
of this one!!!" - aquarius.
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HULU PROJECT - Inemuri
Download album "Inemuri"
CCn‘C Records / da music 2007
Fragile sounds soake through the waking-sleeping senses of the
passengers in a subway car somewhere in Japan, blending in with the
ambient rhythms and creating the daywalking world of inemuri.
"Be present and sleep at the same time" – Inemuri is the art of taking
a nap anywhere and anytime. Wedged into the crowd on the subway, sitting at
the bar in a restaurant, or even during important business conferences: In
Japan, the sight of people holding short and refreshing naps is anything but
out of the common.
A motorbike is speeding through a quiet and peaceful residential
district: Often, sound is not just sound. The driver just loves the
sound of his machine, the residents are merely bugged by the noise.
This is a well-known psycho-acoustic correlation. What is much less
known is the fact that the driver´s perception of the environment
is totally different from that of the residents due to mysterious
phenomenons of overlaying and influencing.
So, what will happen when you sleep in public? How does the sleeper
perceive the sounds that surround him, how do these sounds change
in connection with the cognitive deprivation caused by his sleep,
his dreams?
On their album "Inemuri", the HULU PROJECT uses bizarre
rhythms and fragile sound fabrics, sometimes interspersed by melodic
fragments played by a guitar or a mandolin, to describe this condition
between dream, reality and publicness. Atmospheric, meditative, wild
and fractured – a trip for the senses! Minimalistic impressions burst
upon atonal electronic ambience, breath-taking collages collide with
heavily rocking industrial riffs.
The boundary between sound and noise becomes blurred: a discoursive
relationship The sound paintings are like multi-layered sonorous
architectural fabrics. The art of advanced listening – rangy, minimalistic,
and of a refreshing slowness.
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Public Records Archive
Title:This Is The Sound Of The War On The Poor, vol.2
Artist: Various
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Description:
Fifteen artists and activists from around the world enter their responses
to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor? The
results range from soundbite mash-ups to sound walk documentaries.
Volume 2 features contributions by Luigi Archetti, BLK w/Bear,
GPV-C/E. Castro, Ellipse Elkshow, Heribert Friedl, Ryan Griffis & Sarah
Ross, Kixly, kLIMEK, Pedro Rocha, Steve Stuffit, Swimming Lesson,
Gerhard Schultz, Michael Trommer, X-Chris, Héctor Zárate. (Note:
All are invited to send a one-minute audio recording for upcoming
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Luigi Archetti & Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru)
Hot Stuff
Label: RecRec, Zürich
Released 1992
Mani Neumeier: drums, percussion, electronics.
Luigi Archetti: guitars, electronics.
guests: Hubl Greiner, Der Volz, Shirley Anne Hofmann, Daniel Volkart
Tiere der Nacht
Tiere der Nacht (Mani Neumeier & Luigi Archetti) are two musicians
moving between the two extremes of sensuality and intellect. One
never quite knows towards which of the two they may be heading at
any one moment. Wild and ruthless, they descend upon the big-city
jungle. Rhythm, rhythm and yet again rhythm is their credo, which
they express through the atonal twittering of the thousands of voices
of a giant flock of birds, Wave-Metal explosions and hypnodelic expeditions
into outer space.
Supported by tape machines and others electronics, playing grooves,
fragments of speech, or also, for example, classical sounds by Bartok,
and some effect devices, so-called trained pet-machines, the two
musicians produce a blend which, in this form, must certainly be
unique in the Rock and Jazz world.
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Luigi Archetti & Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru)
Wolpertinger
Label: RecRec, Zürich
Released 1994
Mani Neumeier: drums, percussion, electronics.
Luigi Archetti: guitars, electronics.
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Machinefabriek Remixed - Project of Rutger Zuydervelt
Kruimeldief
2 Compilation-cd's
Label: SELF RELEASED (Rutger Zuydervelt) limited edition of 500
Released 2007
Artist: Kim Cascone, Alva Noto, Henrik Rylander, Steinbrüchel and others |
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