Gebrüder Teichmann, Ensemble Extrakte, Sandeep Bhagwati - Iterationen - Resonant Responses To A Live Concert (2019)

ITERATIONS is a musical experiment: we are juggling with artistic processes. How does music resonate through other music? What happens when the game of Chinese Whispers meets a dynamic feedback loop? In a live concert in Berlin, Ensemble Extrakte - a trans-traditional ensemble led by Sandeep Bhagwati that unites musical folk, jazz, and art music traditions from India, Korea, Syria, China, Bulgaria, Armenia, the US and Europe - plays to music in their headphones: they interpret pioneering techno and electronic tracks put on by Berlin-based brothers Teichmann. But definitely not in the sense of “Beatles go Classic”: they do not simply echo the melodies and harmonies - rather, inspired by the energy and playfulness of the tracks, they improvise a resonant response, transforming and filtering the electronic sound they hear through their traditional instruments and musical expressions.

The DJ & Electronic music duo Gebrüder Teichmann then feed this concert recording into their electronic laboratory, using their electronic ears, their instruments machines and computers to discover a new layer of resonant responses. They reverse, enhance, re-compose the improvisations of the Extrakte Musicians, finding new connections in their sounds. What do we hear now? Who is interpreting whose music? Who is influencing whom, which sound is related to which? What is played live, what is a sample?

ITERATIONS is an ongoing project, a creative love affair between traditional and electronic music making - this album is the second step. What will be the third?

All comprovisations and improvisations: Ensemble Extrakte
Working scores: Sandeep Bhagwati / Remixes, Edits and Reinterpretations: Gebrüder Teichmann

INSPIRED BY A SILENT DJ-MIX OF RECORDS FROM:
Carl Craig, Jasmina Machina, Aphex Twin, Pole, Convextion, Maurizio, Jürgen Paape, Robert Hood, Green Velvet Underground Resistance, Model 500, Rok & Jonzon, Armando, MMM, Eddie Flashin´ Fowlkes, Spencer Kincy, Jesper Dahlbäck, Curtis

BACKGROUND INFORMATIONS:
In 2014 Ensemble Extrakte and Gebrüder Teichmann met for intense listening of a personal selection of early electronic club music in preparation for their concert "Iterations". The idea was to carefully discover the mechanisms how this music works and translate them into playing techniques for the ensemble. During the performance at Radialsystem V on Nov 14, 2014 in Berlin, the ensemble played a live-interpretation of a “silent dj-mix” by Gebrüder Teichmann, that only the musicians could hear in their headphones. The concert also included a section with flexible multiple metronomes by Sandeep Bhagwati and a section with samples from the Klangarchiv of the Ethnologische Museum Berlin, processed by Gebrüder Teichmann. The 2-track recording of this concert was then edited, reinterpreted and remixed by Gebrüder Teichmann at their studio and put back into a new format: the CD “Iterationen - resonant responses to a live-concert”, carefully muffled with a beautiful designed cover by Brenda Alamilia containing a 24-page booklet which includes a conversation by Sandeep Bhagwati and Andi and Hannes Teichmann.