DÖRNER, AXEL / RICHARD SCOTT - A JOURNAL OF ELASTICITY (LP)

""Journal of Elasticity" sees Richard Scott and Axel Dörner team up again after having previously collaborated live onstage and in the studio for albums such as "Orbit, Dialogue and Trajectory: Live In Berlin" with Thomas Lehn and "Seven Types of Ambiguity". The duo came together for the 2017 edition of bohemian drips' very own "Speicher - Festival for Site-Specific Music" to compose and record two sessions-one just by themselves in the empty tank and another one during which they were surrounded by an audience-at the big water reservoir in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, whose acoustic idiosyncrasies have been previously explored by Microtub on "Chronic Shift" (2019) and Tomoko Sauvage on "Fischgeist" (2020) also on bohemian drips. Amplified through a hexaphonic sound system, Scott worked with a Eurorack modular synthesiser, an EMS Synthi A and a Ciat-Lonbarde Tetrassi, while Dörner played a a Holton Firebird trumpet with additional live-sampling via Max/MSP and a controller interface developed by Sukandar Kartadinata. Their two compositions are based around flexibility and elasticity and marked by a mutual understanding of the unpredictabilities of each other's playing. The duo's process is a fluctuating one that creates friction and tension along the way that are briefly resolved in one moment and then emerge anew while the duo goes on to find new sonic and musical formations in the next one." (label info)