gas

gas : untitled #5 da konigforst (mille plateaux, 1999)

gas = wolfgang voigt
wolfgang voigt = kompakt

"Konigforst" of course refers to the Konigsforst, a forest on the right bank of the Rhine. That's a mixed forest outside Cologne, oak, fir, beech etc., you know! A reference point of my hippie adolescence rich with content, to sharpen consciousness for the deeper aspects of electronic life: the German forest on acid. Returning to GAS. GAS is an offshoot of BLEI [lead]. BLEI has always been the name of the mission mentioned before. While BLEI is mostly concerned with brass band music, polka, marches etc. in general and with horn sound in particular, GAS is about strings - and violins. So with GAS a sound passage is taken from the original source and by an extensive loop technique the loop is captured at an arbitrary point and moved across a rhythmic texture according to a random temporal structure. The result is a sound intensification that gets recorded when the object could be liberated from any superfluous meaning in terms of narrative structure.