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EMPTY MUSIC I

by Stefan Hardt

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Again & Again I 25:50
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Again & Again II 16:06
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EMPTY MUSIC I is the first volume of 3 cds which focus on extended versions of already existing compositions. The incitation for this project I indirectly owe to Radu Malfatti (www.radumalfatti.eu) who encouraged me using pauses as musical components equal to the ones of tones.

I´ve already perceived them, the pauses, like that for quite some time but not in such a »simple« and radical manner as Radu Malfatti.
When a house is built of bricks and plaster or cement, a piece of music is built of tones and pauses respectively silence. If you compare the two, you easily end up with the question: Does the plaster, that is to say the pauses, provide utilities in order to create a dramaturgy for the essential, the tones, or can one also consider the pauses being bricks themselves, like the tones? Here in this piece I try to present them, tones and pauses, as equal, as bricks. The musical logic is the plaster, the traceability in regard to the succession of tones. So pauses not only connect two tones or tone sequences but evoke Again & Again the fact that all music originate from silence.
The momentum to feature this insight explicitly I received through an e-mail exchange with Radu Malfatti.

This is the reason for dedicating this cd to him. Thanks a lot, Radu!

I´m very pleased that Jürgen Albrecht provided some stills of his work in order to use them for the cd covers. Thanks, Jürgen!
I think they fit well and seem to be exclusively done for the music.
More about Jürgen Albrecht you´ll find in the text linked to SHADOW´S DELIGHT.

The Navajos provide the motto (see 2nd cd photo).

There is a second track only due to volume adjustment. The first tone of the singing bowl should be very very tender and far away, barely hearable.
About the relationship between reverberation and volume see the text linked to ANGELS I-IV.

If you like to read more and watch related photos, see:
stimmgang.blogspot.com/2014/04/

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released April 24, 2014

Stefan Hardt - melodion, singing bowls & composition

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