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Here is a good review from Subculture's Vivien Weimar of Die Form's Bach Project .
It's impossible even to begin to cover Die Form's body of work over 25 years in a short blog comment, but let's just start with something a bit more accessible, which are the two 30 second samples of their contribution to the 2007 Annual Bach Festival in Leipzig that the Metropolis Records label uploaded here at fuzz. The US label has scored the standard version of the completely sold out [more] limited edition released last month. [By the way, the list of bands posted by the Philadelphia-based label, Metropolis , is worth checking out. This is quite a diverse but stellar line-up. We need to prevail upon Metropolis and their artists to give us longer uploads for streaming than the 30-59 sec. samplers.]
As a quick reference, here is a more traditional version of the same Bach piece [it's a gas to overlay, Die Form's 30 secondsnippet of BMV 147 - [5?] over the Youtube version - by splitting your screen or using a second screen if you have one]:
For some reason, I have had Bach in my mind's ear of late as I check out the experimental music being uploaded here. Something strange and serendipitous goin' on here in our music ecosystem - something that may well be the beginnings of a second Renaissance , something that I have come to think of as a "Digital Renaissance" led by multi-faceted musician/artists/technologists - a separate subject that I would like to explore in more detail in a separate blog.
It's impossible even to begin to cover Die Form's body of work over 25 years in a short blog comment, but let's just start with something a bit more accessible, which are the two 30 second samples of their contribution to the 2007 Annual Bach Festival in Leipzig that the Metropolis Records label uploaded here at fuzz. The US label has scored the standard version of the completely sold out [more] limited edition released last month. [By the way, the list of bands posted by the Philadelphia-based label, Metropolis , is worth checking out. This is quite a diverse but stellar line-up. We need to prevail upon Metropolis and their artists to give us longer uploads for streaming than the 30-59 sec. samplers.]
As a quick reference, here is a more traditional version of the same Bach piece [it's a gas to overlay, Die Form's 30 secondsnippet of BMV 147 - [5?] over the Youtube version - by splitting your screen or using a second screen if you have one]:
For some reason, I have had Bach in my mind's ear of late as I check out the experimental music being uploaded here. Something strange and serendipitous goin' on here in our music ecosystem - something that may well be the beginnings of a second Renaissance , something that I have come to think of as a "Digital Renaissance" led by multi-faceted musician/artists/technologists - a separate subject that I would like to explore in more detail in a separate blog.
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I've had Bach on my mind recently and came across two 30 sec. sampler's that Metropolis Records posted here from Die Form's presentation that has been mastered of their work called the Bach Project based on the duo's performance at last year's Bach Festival in Leipzig.
As the Bach taxonomist par excellence can you tell me if the second sampler from the Die Form upload] is from Bach's BMV 147 - 5 or [as the youtube contributor describes it] BMV 147 - 3?
More broadly, what do you think of this group? Quite the avant Left Bank sort of experimentation in music and the creative process.