René Margraff – Just/Just Birds [CS]

"'Just' (Strings & Flute - Side A)' was created in June 2019 during 'Composing with Intonations: Microtonal Sound Workshop' led by Marc Sabat at ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin. 'Just (Strings & Flute)' is a dialogue between 'pure' but beating sinewaves and acoustic instruments (Abigail Toll - flute, Thomas Nicholson – violin, Marc Sabat – viola, Cenk Ergün – recording) and other recordings (closely miced fermentation, a distant washing machine, a 'frozen' guitar chord recorded in a room with squeaky floor boards.

Just Birds (Side B) was created with the same setup but no acoustic instruments were harmed, the birds woke me so early on a trip to Warnemünde. I only manipulated the speed of the recording. At the same time I noticed lots of negative discussions of 'too many birdsounds in 'ambient' music'' and thought, the problem might just be the music. I enjoyed the dialogue between the sines and how the birdsounds are just opening everything up so much more.

In the tradition of Flying Saucer Attack I consider this album as an end of 'phase 3'."

Dasa Tapes, 2021