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Bramnk, Falter

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Bramnk, Falter: Music for Luminous Background (Sublime Retreat)

A new solo project from French composer and improviser Falter Bramnk, exploring glass and crystal as exclusive sound sources, following his "Glassical Music" series; originally conceived for six Muzzix collective musicians, Bramnk reworked and expanded the compositions featuring glass struck, rubbed, blown, and shaken, on select tracks with contributions from Sam Bodart on Crystal Baschet.
 

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Personnel:



Falter Bramnk-composer, performer

Barbara Dang-performer

Peter Orins-performer

Gordon Pym-performer

Sam Bodart-performer

Christian Pruvost-performer


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Label: Sublime Retreat
Catalog ID: SR022
Squidco Product Code: 35487

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Poland
Packaging: Cardboard sleeve, w/ eco wallet insert
Recorded in 2022 and 2023, by Falter Bramnk.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"This new solo project on glass as a material follows on from "Glassical music" (in which the sounds of water vapor were captured inside glass). Originally, it was a composition project written for 6 musicians from the Muzzix collective, which was performed several times in public. Later, I gathered enough material to work on the new compositions presented here."-Falter Bramnk

"Falter Bramnk is a French composer, improviser, has worked for theater, contemporary dance, and also as sound-designer and sound-editor for short films.He also plays and has played in several bands, and has published a number of solo projects, with an interest in both the music of notes and that of sound-noise, with a taste for adventure.



All music made exclusively with struck, rubbed, blown, shaken glass & crystal material. Composed, played, mixed and recorded by Falter Bramnk (2022-23). Crystal Baschet on " Larmes " and " Cobalt " by Sam Bodart.

"Verreformance" (2019) is an edited live performance by Barbara Dang, Peter Orins, Gordon Pym, Sam Bodart and Christian Pruvost, recorded live at the Malterie by F. B. "-Sublime Retreat

The Cristal Baschet is a unique musical instrument developed in 1952 by French brothers Bernard and François Baschet. It consists of chromatically tuned glass rods that are played by rubbing them with wet fingers, producing ethereal, resonant tones. The vibrations from the glass rods are transmitted to metal rods and amplified through fiberglass cones and a large steel plate, creating its distinctive sound.

The instrument has been used in various musical contexts, including film scores and contemporary compositions, to evoke otherworldly atmospheres. "-Wikipedia


Artist Biographies

"Falter Bramnk: French composer, improvisor, sound designer and sound editor, F. B. lives and works in Lille (France). Musical education: studied piano and singing. Activities: starts with music for theater, video art, then contemporary dance and at present mainly short (fiction and animated) films.

Plays and composes with live bands (currently the band Grand Orchestre de Muzzix), also live music with silent films and involved in multi-instruments solo projects and sound art (sound-portraits and phonographies).

Co-founder of MUZZIX. DJ on the radio show "Opposition de phase" on RCV.99.FM since 1998."

-Falter Bramnk Website (http://falter.bramnk.free.fr/bio.html)
11/20/2024

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"Barbara Dang: Piano

Pianist of classical training and jazz, aesthetics from which she turned away, the sound universe of Barbara Dang goes from experimental music written to improvised music. She worked with Olivier Benoit and Jérémie Ternoy then met other musicians and composers such as Sophie Agnel, Didier Aschour, Michel Doneda, Daunik Lazro, Radu Malfatti, Michael Pisaro ... She developed a solo piano repertoire (John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Henry Cowell, Morton Feldman, Tom Johnson, Federico Mompou, Erik Satie ...) which brings into play unusual techniques (prepared, amplified piano, indoor playing) where pure musical action is privileged compared to an individualized aesthetic expression.

Within small groups or large ensembles (La Pieuvre, Le Grand Orchester de Muzzix, Dedalus), she explores other instruments such as amplified objects, electronics, organ or spruce.

Since March 2015, she has worked for Revue & Corrigée: a benchmark review of experimental sound practices."-© Pidz (translated by Google)

-Muzzix (http://muzzix.info/Dang?lang=fr)
11/20/2024

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"After classical music study, Peter Orins learns the drums, first in a rock and afro-cuban music school, then at the Conservatoire National de Région of Lille in the jazz section, where he studies with Guy Gilbert, Jean-François Canape, Gérard Marais... He graduates in 1997. In the meantime, he studies musicology at university, improvisation with Fred Van Hove, composition with Jean-Marc Chouvel and Ricardo Mandolini.

Playing jazz from the middle of the 90's, he plays in the bands that will create in 2000 the Circum collective : Impression (for which he composes, became Flu(o) in 2012), Quartet Base, Stefan Orins Trio. He coordinates the Circum collective till its fusion with the CRIME in 2010, and creates the Circum Grand Orchestra, band with the 10 musicians of Circum, for which he composes also occasionally. At the same time Peter Orins get in the CRIME projects, improvised and experimental music collective also based at la malterie in Lille. He plays especially in La Pieuvre, big improvisation orchestra conducted by Olivier Benoit (nowadays Artistic Director of L'Orchestre National de Jazz). It's with the Crime that he'll develop his solo work (drums and electronic with Pure Data application), and improvised and experimental projects with David Bausseron, Laurent Rigaut, Ivann Cruz, Christian Pruvost, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Benjamin Duboc, Yanik Miossec, Falter Bramnk, ... in bands like DBPO, De Nouvelles Erreurs, Signal Box, Electropus, Ternoy/Cruz/Orins (that will become Toc, free-rock progressive band)... In 2006, he leads a french-vietnamese project called Hué/Circum with the support of Region Nord Pas de Calais, which combines 4 musicians from Circum and 3 traditional vietnamese musicians from Hué (tour in Vietnam, Japan and France, from 2006 to 2009). In 2010, he creates a french-japanese quartet with pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpet players Natsuki Tamura and Christian Pruvost, band for which he composes with Satoko Fujii. Several international tours with this band (Japan, Israel, Germany, France, USA, Canada). In 2011, Ivann Cruz, guitar player from Muzzix, and Maciej Garbowski, polish double-bass player, invite him to play in their quartet with the finnish saxophone player Kari Heinila. He also collaborates with theatre, composes for cinema or animation movies, dance... Since the creation of Muzzix in 2010, Peter Orins coordinates the artistic direction of the collective.

He played with : Sophie Agnel, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Benjamin Duboc, Radu Malfati, Steve Dalachinsky, Andrew D'Angelo, Petr Cancura, Josh Sinton, Curtis Hasselbring, Joe Morris, Rene Hart, David Miller, Frank London, Nate Wooley, Renee Baker, Ernest Dawkins, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Michael Zerang, Jacques Di Donato, François Corneloup, Norbert Lucarain, Sylvain Kassap, Alain Vankenhove, Camel Zekri, ..."

-Peter Orins Website (http://www.peterorins.com/biography/)
11/20/2024

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"Gordon Pym [France] performs in various experimental and improvised music formations, most often in electronic devices using amplified objects."

-Muzzix (https://muzzix.info/JHNCG-Gordon-Pym-Barbara-Dang?lang=fr)
11/20/2024

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Sam Bodart is a Belgian musician and composer known for his work with the Cristal Baschet, a unique glass instrument developed by the Baschet brothers in the 1950s. He has collaborated with various artists and ensembles, contributing to projects that explore the sonic possibilities of glass and crystal materials. Notably, Bodart played the Cristal Baschet on Falter Bramnk's album, adding distinctive textures to tracks like "Larmes" and "Cobalt." His performances often blend traditional and experimental elements, showcasing his versatility and commitment to innovative soundscapes.

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"Christian Pruvost plays in Circum Grand Orchestra, Feldspath, La Pieuvre, Flu(o) / Impression, Kaze, Christian Pruvost, Pruvost / Mahieux, Signal Box, Quartet Base, Ziph, Wabla, Moondog Madrigals, PCM Bla∫t, Intento, Le Grand Orchestre de MuzzixGenerous, insatiable and prolific musician, Christian Pruvost multiplies the cooperations for several years, whether it is in jazz, improvised music or live performing arts.Solo, (" Ipteravox " released in 2010 on Helix / Circum-Disc), he explores the spectrum of the trumpet, from the softest blowing to the strongest bursts. Playing all acoustic, he develops his repertoire very serenely, and adds some objects that bring him a wealth of extra tones. His inventiveness and the originality of his approach has taken him to perform solo in Brest, Montreuil, Paris, Besançon, Tours, Nantes, Montpellier, Amsterdam and Australia (Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane), invited by pianist Anthony Pateras.With Didier Aschour, he is a co-director of " Round the World of Sound ", creation gathering 14 musicians from the Muzzix collective and Dedalus ensemble in a work on Moondog's madrigals. He can be seen alongside Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura and Peter Orins in the spectacular franco-japanese quartet Kaze (2 albums and several tours in Japan, Israel, and in the USA/Canada since 2011, and a Japanese tour in preparation for september 2014).In a new project called PCM Bla∫t, Christian Pruvost surrounds himself with Maxime Morel (tuba) and Samuel Carpentier (trombone). Together they explore many repertoires - from medieval music to the composers of the XXIst century - but also improvised forms ; altogether in a theatrical and experimental approach. He is also a member of Circum Grand Orchestra, which releases its third album composed by Christophe Hache in 2014, and la Pieuvre, the improvisation orchestra conducted by Olivier Benoit.Blowing masseur in Ziph (collective of individual balloon-membrane horns and creator of the concept of sound massages), he also takes part in the Wabla project with Thierry Madiot, Yanik Miossec and David Bausseron. He can be seen in duo with bass player Nicolas Mahieux, in Flu(o), Arsis quartet, in the orchestra of Zoone Libre collective Vazytouille and in two shows carried by la Cie Générale d'Imaginaire [dukõne] and [ nu ].Collaborations with Axel Dörner, Olivier Benoit, Jérémie Ternoy, Nicolas Mahieux, Otomo Yoshihide, Mina Small, Sean Baxter, Benoît Delbecq, Alain Gibert, Carole Rieussec, Roger Cochini, Sophia Domancich, Giovanna Marini, Didier Levallet, Lucia Recio, Li Ping Ting, Patricia Kuypers, Thierry Madiot, Sophie Agnel, Satoko Fuji, Natsuki Tamura, Jérôme Noetinger, Benjamin Duboc, Didier Lasserre, Makoto Sato, Lionel Marchetti, Cor Fuhler, John Edwards, Tony Buck, Daunik Lazro..."-Muzzix (http://muzzix.info/Pruvost?lang=en)
11/20/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Contact 1:04

2. Securit 8:14

3. Monocle 1:55

4. Larmes 3:18

5. Vitrail 4:59

6. Opaline 6:51

7. Fiole 0:38

8. Obsidienne 5:40

9. Rasade 5:12

10. Cobalt 4:40

11. Oxyde 3:41

12. Verreformance 3:07

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