MUSIC

schere mp3 2020

„schere“, mp3 2020

music by rotterdam
susanne amann – cello, electronics
michael klauser – acoustic guitar, electronics
p+c 2020 by rotterdam

mix & mastering: kassian troyer

kkkk mp3 2019

„kkkk“, mp3 2019

music by rotterdam
susanne amann – cello, electronics
michael klauser – acoustic guitar, electronics
p+c 2019 by rotterdam

mix & mastering: kassian troyer

gizicki CD/mp3 2016, everestrecords

With their new release „Gizicki“ Rotterdam continues their sonic explorations of the magic formula of difference and repetition. The Viennese duo (Susanne Amann – cello & electronics; Michael Klauser – guitar, tuba & electronics) masterfully balances mathematical precision and dynamic instrumental play. „Gizicki“ evokes monotone dances, mantric recitatives and undulant sound clusters: anti-climactic, mechanic, de-emotionalised as if it were the ceremonial music of a machine cult. Rotterdam succeed in setting free the immersive, hypnotic potential of repetitive loops, while training our senses. For what appears on surface as mechanical, machine-like, and indeed, non-human forces closer attention to the diversity of tone colours and the dynamics shades of the acoustic instruments recorded live. The subtle nuances of strumming, bowing, tapping and plucking as well as the overtones keep the tension. „Gizicki“ is a sparse and airy sound construction: a piece of sober ecstasy, fractal intensity and acoustic loop-archeology between proto-techno, skeletonised krautrock, early American minimal music and asketic rite, whose utopian impetus is to exploit the man/ machine dichotomy aesthetically. (Shilla Strelka)

„gizicki“, cd/mp3 2016

all tracks by rotterdam
susanne amann – cello, electronics
michael klauser – acoustic guitar, tuba, electronics
p+c 2010 by rotterdam
mix & mastering: kassian troyer

label: everestrecords

cambodia CD/mp3 2011, everestrecords

„Cambodia“ (everest records) is the title of the debut album of the Viennese duo rotterdam and is the result of a ten-year-long experimental process. Far away from any conventions or traditional song arrangements, Susanne Amann (cello, flute, electronics) and Michael Klauser (acoustic guitar, electronics) create constantly pulsating sound patterns that draw their power from the continuous compression of sound elements. Their experimental and avantgardist tracks, mastered by the Berliner Stefan Betke (Scape) and Kassian Troyer, are reduced to the essential: minimalist beats and repetitive loops combine with samples and acoustics, merging into instrumental sound paintings of an extremely hypnotic, even danceable effect. Rotterdam celebrates the power of monotony, which has rarely before sounded so varied. (Michael Ternai)

„cambodia“, cd/mp3 2011

all tracks by rotterdam
susanne amann – cello, flute, electronics
michael klauser – acoustic guitar, electronics
p+c 2010 by rotterdam
mix & mastering: kassian troyer

label: everestrecords

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