Mr. Schmuck's Farm (Hildur Guðnadóttir & Dirk Dresselhaus)
Good Sound
Schneider TM's Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir join forces on this 2005 album of longform drones and unsettling industrial electronix.
Both based in Berlin, Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir met while they were navigating the city's nightlife and realized they were stations in the same kiez. The final track on "Good Sound", their lone collaborative album, was made during their first meetup and was recorded before they'd even started talking. The rest was just as easy: 'Don't Give Up, What Is Death' was inspired by their mutual love of Sun Ra, and grim opener 'Not All Crows Are Black' was recorded after a short break.
The ingredients for each track were similar each time, Guðnadóttir would play cello and other acoustic instruments (zither, accordion, saw), and Dresselhaus would process the sounds live on his mixing desk, adding rever, delay, EQ and other effects. The result is a focused mass of sound that feels confidently improvisational, but never dull - Dresselhaus's process show how confident he is on the mixing desk, and turn Guðnadóttir's tones into fragmented loops, cosmic granular shards and dubbed-out echoes intermittently.
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Schneider TM's Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir join forces on this 2005 album of longform drones and unsettling industrial electronix.
Both based in Berlin, Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir met while they were navigating the city's nightlife and realized they were stations in the same kiez. The final track on "Good Sound", their lone collaborative album, was made during their first meetup and was recorded before they'd even started talking. The rest was just as easy: 'Don't Give Up, What Is Death' was inspired by their mutual love of Sun Ra, and grim opener 'Not All Crows Are Black' was recorded after a short break.
The ingredients for each track were similar each time, Guðnadóttir would play cello and other acoustic instruments (zither, accordion, saw), and Dresselhaus would process the sounds live on his mixing desk, adding rever, delay, EQ and other effects. The result is a focused mass of sound that feels confidently improvisational, but never dull - Dresselhaus's process show how confident he is on the mixing desk, and turn Guðnadóttir's tones into fragmented loops, cosmic granular shards and dubbed-out echoes intermittently.
Schneider TM's Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir join forces on this 2005 album of longform drones and unsettling industrial electronix.
Both based in Berlin, Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir met while they were navigating the city's nightlife and realized they were stations in the same kiez. The final track on "Good Sound", their lone collaborative album, was made during their first meetup and was recorded before they'd even started talking. The rest was just as easy: 'Don't Give Up, What Is Death' was inspired by their mutual love of Sun Ra, and grim opener 'Not All Crows Are Black' was recorded after a short break.
The ingredients for each track were similar each time, Guðnadóttir would play cello and other acoustic instruments (zither, accordion, saw), and Dresselhaus would process the sounds live on his mixing desk, adding rever, delay, EQ and other effects. The result is a focused mass of sound that feels confidently improvisational, but never dull - Dresselhaus's process show how confident he is on the mixing desk, and turn Guðnadóttir's tones into fragmented loops, cosmic granular shards and dubbed-out echoes intermittently.
Schneider TM's Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir join forces on this 2005 album of longform drones and unsettling industrial electronix.
Both based in Berlin, Dirk Dresselhaus and Hildur Guðnadóttir met while they were navigating the city's nightlife and realized they were stations in the same kiez. The final track on "Good Sound", their lone collaborative album, was made during their first meetup and was recorded before they'd even started talking. The rest was just as easy: 'Don't Give Up, What Is Death' was inspired by their mutual love of Sun Ra, and grim opener 'Not All Crows Are Black' was recorded after a short break.
The ingredients for each track were similar each time, Guðnadóttir would play cello and other acoustic instruments (zither, accordion, saw), and Dresselhaus would process the sounds live on his mixing desk, adding rever, delay, EQ and other effects. The result is a focused mass of sound that feels confidently improvisational, but never dull - Dresselhaus's process show how confident he is on the mixing desk, and turn Guðnadóttir's tones into fragmented loops, cosmic granular shards and dubbed-out echoes intermittently.