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emme - concrete

from Stockhausen Serves the Worms by Semibegun

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To create this piece, I worked from the source material of Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry’s Symphonie pour un home seul. Their piece, as its title suggests, was intended to be performed individually: by one man manipulating tape and turntables. I was drawn to working with this piece because it seemed to underscore a musical philosophy quite contrary to my own. Whereas my own musical education and my approach to musical experience is deeply collective in nature, this composition by Henry and Schaeffer seemed to be abandoning the power of collective, participatory musical experience in favor of individual technical achievement and innovation. At the same time though, the piece they created is sonically very rich and generative. So I wanted to recontextualize the sonic world they created within a more familiar, collective and danceable format. What came out of this process was something like a techno/experimental club track incorporating many different percussive elements in conversation with each other: a robust and layered rhythm section which builds over the course of the track – the kind of 'collective' instrumentation which is the basis of much of the music I make. 

I sampled and manipulated the source material to varying degrees. The track I created consists almost exclusively of sampled audio, with the exception of a kick drum. All manipulation of source material was done digitally, in Ableton. 

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from Stockhausen Serves the Worms, released May 5, 2023

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