Sorry for this crosspost, but just thought I`d tell you all about this
event last night. The music was more applicable to IDM but I know Uwe
Schmidt has done some very ambient stuff before so I thought you might be
interested.
I have to say I didn`t really know what to expect as the only thing I
actually have of Atom Heart`s is the remix he did for Prong. The night was
billed as Atom Heart vs (something in German I can`t remember right now).
What it consisted of three of them, two Germans and a Chilean, improvising
on a box of tricks and trying to synch it with what the other two were
doing. This is the sort of thing that would work well if everyone
concerned knew the others very, very well. Unfortunately, this didn`t seem
to be the case, so there were many instances where things felt a bit
disjointed. There were moments of brillance as well to make up for it
though.
I`m not very good at describing this sort of music but I`ll give it a go.
It was animated enough to get people moving but no one was in danger of
breaking a sweat. I would say that the music was like a trancey (does this
word exist?) version of the Artificial Intelligence comps. I hope this
makes some sort of sense to someone. It was, unfortunately, a little
difficult to tell exactly who was doing what so I couldn`t say who was
leading and who was following.
I don`t know if it was recorded. I didn`t see a DAT machine, but then I
don`t really know what they look like. I wouldn`t be suprised if it
doesn`t get released as a live thing due to the disjointed bits. They
might just take out the brilliant bits and use them.
Sorry for the long cross post.
Tim