Voutchkova / Thieke / Carroll

As Found

sound anatomy | 2017 | CD

Biliana Voutchkova | violin

Michael Thieke | clarinet

Roy Carroll | electro-acoustic media

1. as found (37:55)
2. as left (08:35)

Recording Engineer: Adam Asnan
Mastering: Richard Scott
Photography/Artwork: David Sylvian

Recorded live on 25th January 2015 at Studio 8, Berlin

about:

Voutchkova/Thieke/Carroll make tactile, kinetic, luminous acoustic music; focused on aspects of timbre, tuning, and auditory/psycho-acoustic phenomena. Their debut album on Berlin’s Sound Anatomy label ”As Found” captures Voutchkova/Thieke/Carroll navigating with principled uncertainty between acoustic and electrical, discrete and continuous, unity and disparity.

 

The trio mines the interstice of all three permutational duos (Voutchkova/Thieke, Thieke/Carroll, Voutchkova/Carroll) of which exist as distinct performing entities; together in this trio they extend a common aesthetic of timbral and gestural ambiguity. All three musicians live in Berlin where they are very active members of the city’s extraordinarily busy and creative improvising and post-echtzeitmusik scenes.

links:

Listen on Bandcamp: as found

Webiste: Biliana Voutchkova

Info: Voutchkova /Thieke

reviews:

​ “…a mental / musical desire to build space without direct boundaries… when I hear this, I learn​ ​to spell b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l in a new way.”
Thomas​ Millroth, Orkesterjournalen (Sweden)

 

“… kinetic electro-acoustic pendulum, moving between tactile, detailed acoustic ideas and their distant,​ ​​processed abstraction, between reserved and discrete sounds and sudden, rough eruptions…”
Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts (Norway)