Bernhard Günter
Born 1957, in Neuwied, Germany. Starts playing drums at 12; changes to electric guitar at 17. in 1980 moves to paris; visits readings by pierre boulez at IRCAM and College de France and works in the libraries of IRCAM and Centre Pompidou, to aquire contemporary compositional techniques. he owns Trente Oiseaux label.
Born 1957, in Neuwied, Germany. Starts playing drums at 12; changes to electric guitar at 17. in 1980 moves to paris; visits readings by pierre boulez at IRCAM and College de France and works in the libraries of IRCAM and Centre Pompidou, to aquire contemporary compositional techniques. he owns Trente Oiseaux label.
Un Peu De Neige Salie
Guenter's assiduous compositions favor extremely subtle variances in electro-acoustic crackle, subsonic rumble, and subliminal frequencies exploring the limits of the audible spectrum through invisible digital edits. The title of his landmark debut a…
Slow Gestures / Cérémonie Désir (For Heike)
“It is very difficult for me to speak of this work, since it is getting very close to my goal of creating a kind of language free space. I thus prefer to let it go without further comment other than that I dedicate it to my companion Heike - each ges…
then, silence
Then, Silence is dedicated to Morton Feldman and Luigi Nono. The experience of listening to their music has changed my understanding, my way of hearing, my thinking about, and my creating music so much that my own work would simply be unthinkable wit…
Un océan de certitude
long out of print, one copy only available - Un ocean de certitude' V223 is a triple set: a disk each by Gunter and Wehowsky and one collaboration. Gunter's piece 'Deceptive likeness' is a minimal work, which while at a low volume is not quite sublim…
Univers temporel espoir
For this CD, mister Günter has remixed his 1997 piece “Un lieu pareil à un point effacé, 1ere partie”, which had been released on a CD that accompanied the American HALANA magazine, and reworked “Un lieu pareil à un point effacé, 2eme partie”, never …
Redshift / Abschied
"I was forming plans for a very different project in my mind when i came across a number of DAT tapes from my first sampling days in 1993, the time of 'Un peu de neige salie' - these tapes contained sounds i had not used in those days, and that i cou…
Crossing the river (night music)
Crossing the River is calm, peaceful, and beautiful, guaranteed to slow you down after a busy urban day (but unlike chemical products designed to this effect, it leaves your mind clear and aware). The effect it had on me was that i bagged my elaborat…
Time, dreaming itself
This work's main aspects are, as its title suggests, Time, and the notion of Slowness. Of complex harmonic design similar to "brown, blue, brown on blue (for Mark Rothko)" the composition uses both instrumental images and elements of a more soundscap…
brown, blue, brown on blue (for Mark Rothko)
“I finished "brown, blue, brown on blue (for Mark Rothko)" in mid-july 1999, and it picks up where "Slow Gestures / Cérémonie Désir (for Heike)" left off (actually, the two pieces can be listened to as one large work in two parts...). It is dedicated…
Détails Agrandis
This collection of three pieces is dedicated to artists and musicians whom Bernhard Günter admires. The collection's title translates to "Enlarged Details," an apt description of Günter's approach to composition. Musically all of them involve a limit…
impossible grey
A wildly beautiful. Dangerously low frequencies, that is if you’ve a good system and neighbors. Lovely bright hard sounds, too. You doubtless already like the scratchy sound at the beginnings or endings of LPs
Monochrome Rust / Differential
As with many LINE releases, describing the hyperminimal microsounds of Bernhard Günter’s Monochrome Rust/ Differential is difficult like telling a sketch artist about the features of a ghost’s face seen from a distance – a long time ago – while you w…