A collaboration between Andrea Neumann (composer, inside piano, mixer) and Mads Emil Nielsen (composer, electronics).
Andrea Neumann and Mads Emil Nielsen's collaboration was initiated in 2014 with a common focus on creating music combining graphic scores, open improvisations and remixing. This led to their "Deconstruction" series and a graphic score (Framework) interpretation. In 2018 Neumann and Nielsen produced a 4-channel composition and they now release a 10" vinyl.
The starting points for these ten short pieces are selected parts of recorded improvisations made with electronics and inside piano, which were remixed by both musicians. Different musical aspects such as tactility, three-dimensionality, repetition, rhythmical elements and transparency are explored by the two musicians as the ambiguous characters of the original improvisations are transformed into ten new compositions.
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Mads Emil Nielsen is a musician/composer based in Copenhagen, working with basic sound sources, often combined with short percussive and orchestral samples, real sounds and an amplification of machine produced errors. In 2014 he founded Arbitrary, the label and artistic platform on which he released a series of graphic scores and recordings (Framework) and various solo works and collaborations.
Andrea Neumann (born 1968 in Freiburg) is a German musician and composer. She studied classical piano at Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin.
Since 1996, she is primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds (sometimes to make parts of the sound audible which are inaudible without amplification), she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument.
Andrea Neumann has worked intensively in the crossover area between composition and improvisation, and in the field between electronic and handmade sounds, with international musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick, Axel Dörner, Sven-Åke Johansson, Robin Hayward, Burkhard Beins, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ignaz Schick, Christopher A. Williams, Sachiko M, Ivan Palacký, Sophie Agnel, Bertrand Gauguet, Martin Tétreault, Mads Emil Nielsen, etc. She has composed for inside piano for interdisciplinary projects including film, dance and performance.
