As a variation of my occasional collaborative sessions with my friends Volker Lankow and Andreas von Garnier in Andreas’ studio, the Wilhelmshagen Sessions, this album presents a unique twist. Rather than a collective effort, it features an isolated track, taken out of context, that I recorded in the studio, meticulously edited and processed to create an immersive and expansive ambient experience.
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The Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project (EMEAPP) is a world-class curated collection of rare vintage electronic instruments. It is a private museum, a critical learning center and a multimedia production studio outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It is their charge to preserve these unique resources and make them available to their members and the world. EMEAPP does this through its research projects, creative endeavors, and media programming, enlightening many people along the way.
On April 19, 2023, during my US tour, I was invited to perform at this extraordinary venue. In this video you can follow me on this in-depth musical flow state.
Executive Producer: Mike Hunter Audio Recording/Mastering: Drew Raison Videography/Live Switching: Mike Hunter Production Assistant: Lisa Platow Video Post: Vince Pupillo Jr.
This session is based on a sample set created from recordings of ponds. These sounds were recorded with a very special microphone, designed to capture all those mysterious sounds found in swamps, pools and smaller lakes. This device is capable of picking up all the scratching, hissing and cracking underwater noises, produced by plants, insects and everything else down there, revealing the secrets that go on right in your back yard.
credits
Bernhard Wöstheinrich – Keyboards, Samplers, Synthesizers and Sequencers
Editing & mixing: Bernhard Wöstheinrich Mastering: Markus Reuter
All drawings (cover and video): Christine Kriegerowski kriegerowski.org
Video by Bernhard Wöstheinrich, additional pond footage by David Rothenberg
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On a nice day in May 2022 David Rothenberg and Bernhard Wöstheinrich were heading by bike to the Brandt, Brauer, Frick Studio in Neukölln, Berlin. There they met with Ali Sayah, a bass- and tar player with Iranian roots. The studio provided a homey setting for their sessions, and so, guided by David’s distinctive playing on his bass clarinet, they embarked on a laid-back journey into world music that brought together bass guitar, Persian tar – a long-necked, waisted lute instrument – piano and electronics. As the musicians gently embrace each other in their playing, a very unique sound and mood emerges, subtle, haunting, and utterly human.
ALI SAYAH is a visual artist and musician from Tehran based in Berlin. He studied art at the science and culture University of Tehran. He played in several indie Iranian rock bands, as well as in a traditional Iranian music ensemble. He currently is bassist in “Von Flocken” a German Electro Pop-Rock band. He finished his master’s degree at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in 2021 and has had several exhibitions in Berlin and Palermo. His work is related to the relationship between traditional Iranian culture and contemporary developments in culture.
In his music Ali tries to blend Iranian music with other influences, in order to present his own culture with a new color and expression.
Musician and philosopher DAVID ROTHENBERG wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than forty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House which came out on ECM, and most recently In the Wake of Memories and Faultlines. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Umru, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. Nightingales in Berlin is his latest book and film. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Bernhard Wöstheinrich: Piano, Keyboards, Virtual synthesizers, Live-sequencing David Rothenberg: Clarinet, Bass clarinet, and iPad Ali Sayah: Bass (on ‘Warped Blessings’) and Tar (on ‘Homayoun’ and ‘Sourmount’)
Recorded by Jan Brauer
Mixed by Bernhard Wöstheinrich
Mastered by Markus Reuter
Artwork by Markus Reuter
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Bernhard Wöstheinrich 