Kai Fagaschinski & Bernhard Gál
Kai Fagaschinski (Berlin) – Clarinet
Bernhard Gál (Vienna/Berlin) – Computer
The duo project of Kai Fagaschinski and Bernhard Gal combines the sonic characteristics of Fagaschinski’s idiosyncratic clarinet playing with Gal’s digitally modified phonographies. Bernhard’s re-contextualized field recordings open up new acoustic spaces, while Kai sculpts air with his clarinet in various ways, creating an ambivalent musical situation between concrete and abstract listening. Based on clarinet samples, they also build up microtonal clusters with drone-like qualities. During a focused rehearsal period in winter 03/04, Fagaschinski and Gal developed open compositions where preconceived musical structures are combined with the specific energy of improvisation. The findings of this conclave have been released by Charhizma in December 2005 on their debut-CD going round in serpentines.
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