WITTWER, STEPHAN - SICHT 04 ETC. (2CD - USED m-/m-)

"an album that contains moments of sublime beauty and softness, most of all, the long piece «sicht 04» on disc number 2 is a surprising work of almost meditative calm, scanty sketchiness and sensuality. Over the duration of this piece, long sustained synthetic drones and sounds of a detuned steel string guitar, that are partially layers of prime number harmonics resulting in bell-like sounds that are clashing tonal systems, fill out the listening space. The musical material on sicht 04 ect. is by degrees based on ideas and samples, the musician has developed for work of the visual artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss in the last decade (their ultra slow slide show installation «Sichtbare Welt»). Moreover, the composition LSRMstereo» on the ect. Disc, is a two channel version of a commissioned work for the listening room at 2003's Taktlos Festival in Berne. Most of the tracks on the etc.» CD use algorithmic or probabilistic methods for their creation; there is nearly no «live» guitar playing on it, but some disembodied sounds of this instrument are omnipresent." (label info)