Thomas Kessler - ...said the shotgun to the head, Utopia II
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Label: Neos Music
Cat No: NEOS11511
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 19th February 2016
Contents
Artists
Saul Williams (speaker)WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Conductor
Jonathan StockhammerWorks
...said the shotgun to the headUtopia II
Artists
Saul Williams (speaker)WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Conductor
Jonathan StockhammerAbout
His music follows the word cascades of the slam-poet Saul Williams in great detail. It is strengthened by a rap choir that is to be cast for each individual performance, made up of schoolchildren in Cologne: seven voices sitting in the orchestra and – in the closest contact with the classical musicians – propelling the event.
Kessler goes still further eight years later in Utopia II. His idea of live electronics is central here, reflecting decades of studio experience. Each musician has a microphone, loudspeaker and laptop at his disposal alongside his instrument, and can individually control and alter the sound. The whole, therefore, is not regulated by a “god at the control desk” but by musicians who listen attentively to each other.
The result is a multi-layered, hardly foreseeable orchestral sound containing, alongside instrumental tones, countless sounds, remote voices and noises, as well as fragments of news channels.
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