Rainer Straschill
Beiträge des Autors
Dem Andenken eines Engels
für Antje.
SAUBER! Das Geheimnis der Geschwindigkeit
Retuning the bass guitar to span five octaves, putting more processing power into the rack, sticking with the radical free improvisation approach – and this is what happens: the extramusical narrative becomes more Dada.
Eclectic Blah
Radical free improvisation. Only this time it’s dance music.
groxis tafelbilder
The first in a long line of Radical Free Improvisation albums. „The artist“ arrived at a vernissage and brought a big rack of gear, three wind instruments, a big bass guitar, and came up with…ideas.
The Cosmo Sessions
The (alternate) soundtrack to a pulp science fiction novel by Andreas Winterer. Software instruments make an appearance. As do progressive rock references. And Jimi.
The Cosmo Sessions: Samples
Following the lead I´ve taken with Janus, The Cosmo Sessions contain even more recylced material – and this not only because two of the tracks are remixes or cover versions of other songs. The following list contains a directory of all the snippets used in the recordings; some very obvious, some rather garbled. In some cases, samples appear …
Sauflieder Band 1: „A Blessing of Beers“
Following on the JANUS recording sessions, this is the first foray into realtime loops. And strating what would dominate straschill’s musical output throughout the 00’s.
JANUS
The first big production. The first with dozens of collaborators. The first with a DAW. And after a five-year hiatus since the last release, it must be good, right? Still an artist’s favourite.
JANUS: History Line
The Janus Project has a long and ardous history line – and work on it has started as early as December 1991, when one of the pieces which is to be contained on the record got conceived. During this time, the recording project has been reshaped, renamed, dropped, taken up again, replaced by other projects, forgotten, remembered …
JANUS: Flipsides
The JANUS Flipsides or THE TRACKS WHICH DIDN´T MAKE IT Total Time: 72:40 A. INTRODUCTION The track sheet shown above is the tracksheet for a fictional – yet theoretically possible, quite interesting and perhaps even practically possible – record, comprised of „flipsides“ of JANUS tunes. All the tracks listed have at one time or another …