SUAL Archives | 2013
Gunter Schneider & Barbara Romen: Im Rohr
Duration: 25‘33“
Type: Recorded live at SUAL 2013
Credits: Audio recording by JF, editing by GS
Im Rohr
Zwei Musiker auf der Bühne erzeugen leise instrumentale Klänge. Damit werden zwei verschieden lange Kartonrohre in Art der früher in Aufnahmestudios gebräuchlichen Hallkammern beschallt: An einem Ende schickt ein spezieller Lautsprecher die Klänge in das Rohr, am anderen Ende werden die modifizierten Klänge mit einem Mikrophon wieder aufgenommen. Die derart eingefärbten instrumentalen Klänge werden verstärkt und wirken im Sinn einer psychoakustischen Wahrnehmungsschleife auf die Entstehung der folgenden Instrumentalklänge ein. Wo führt das hin? Hören Sie selbst!
Gunter Schneider
[info as of 11/2013]
Gunter Schneider & Barbara Romen
started their professional collaboration in 1990, from that year on they have been married, too. From the beginning, contemporary music has been the central aim of their work. Excursions led to baroque sonatas for salterio (Hackbrett, beaten dulcimer) and basso continuo. Aside of main repertoire works for guitar duo (Lachenmann, Kubo, but as well Brouwer and Gnattali) a lot of works were specially composed for them, by composers like Klaus Ager, Gerold Amann, Martin Daske, Fernando Grillo, Radu Malfatti, and Burkhard Stangl. Besides, they have been developing music of their own, both for „dulcimer à due“ (performed on one traditional Tyrolean diatonic dulcimer), and for chromatic tenor-dulcimer and various guitars. The cd „Traditional Alpine Music from the 22nd Century“ was released in 2007.
Together they worked in different projects, a.o. „here comes the sun“ with Berlin based clarinet multiphoner Kai Fagaschinski, music for dance (e.g. with Japanese choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara), music for radio plays, various improvisation groups, among others „harsch“ with Burkhard Stangl and Christof Kurzmann, together with Japanese musicians Sugimoto Taku, Akiyama Tetuzi, and Unami Taku, a project with stone sculptures by Tyrolean sculptor Kassian Erhart, named „tracking stones’ voices“ (ORF-SACD), and „klopfzeichen/klangschnitte“ with Japanese and Austrian printmakers and musicians. They are probably best known for their interpretation of Lachenmann’s „Salut fuer Caudwell“ (cd durian 018-2, booklet on the internet)), which they as well have been touring in a music theatre project conceived by choreographer Xavier Le Roy since 2005 („Mouvements for Lachenmann“ and „More Mouvements for Lachenmann“). In 2009 the formed the experimental house music project „quadrat:sch“ together with composer and looped-zither virtuoso Christof Dienz and his wife, double bass player Alexandra Dienz.
https://schneider.klingt.org/projects/romen-schneider
[info as of 12/2009]