GEORG ZICHY/REINHOLD FRIEDL

The flagship of occidental art music meets amplified scrap: The grand piano meets electronic saturation, feedback and noise. And out comes music, played live. No cuts, no overdubs, no edits. But the formal logic is evident, underlying threads connect and run throughout vleisch, the individual pieces showing a strong coherence, revealing intrinsic structures by recalling sonic variants as if from memory: hidden bells, coarse scratches, wonderful noises juxtaposed with unstable screeching and velvety bass, all merge into sensual sonic vlesh.

Reinhold Friedl and Georg Zichy share Pierre Schaeffer’s focus on sound perception: listen, listen, listen! Noises are music, noise is pleasure.

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