BLANK PLAYS DUDEN
DVD
coverart by Günther Förg and Tobias Rehberger
Rüdiger Carl is one of the most important personalities who has
come out of European free jazz. The artists Oliver Augst and Christoph
Korn, a generation younger, work in a conflicting field of improvisation,
installation, electronics and theory. Theory and noise sit together here
“as exactly as a tailor-made suit” says the German music magazine
Spex. Oliver Augst, Rüdiger Carl and Christoph Korn have appeared
as “blank” in the last few years presenting various projects
and releases. Their newest project DUDEN takes “collection”
as its starting point. Oliver Augst, Rüdiger Carl and Christoph Korn
have sifted through their current recordings and publications in the last
few years, deconstructed them quasi-microscopically and compiled countless
humorous and colorful mnemonic fragments.
These snippets are pressed as so-called “locked grooves” into
the vinyl. On a “locked grooves” record, the music grooves
form self-contained circles which keeps the ton arm “locked”
in a turnaround – a loop that lasts exactly 1.8 seconds. Over 200
of these loops make up the musical material of DUDEN.
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