Nagel3

Bio:

.. <" border="0"> .. Nagel3 joins together electronic music, sounddesign, improvisation and pure chance.Live-sampling is the cornerstone of the project. The space surrounding the installation plays along. Different microphones and movement detectors are recording sounds and movements happening in the vicinity, which get formed and deformed directly. The concept is also designed for the combination of the resulting sound with performing musicians whose sounds are treated with live sampling as well. Prepared sounds and rhythms never act as fixed compositions but are meant to act as a space for improvisation. All in all Nagel3 sees the project rather as an accoustic illumination of space than producing non-referential noise. Nagel3 is more interested in sounds than in songs. Electronic music happens under the conditions of a real, analogue and musical situation. Even if Nagel3 briefly thought to have reinvented the wheel he has to admit being indebted to “musique concrete” and “city-sounds”.

In 1998, after several years of making music in a rather conventional way, mostly as a drummer for several bands, Nagel3 began to ponder the possibilities of live-sampling. Caused by the technical development of music production digital media already were tools of the trade. Together with Michael Hübinger Nagel3 founded the still existing project “audiell” for the production of music for short movies and commercials. Being an “analogue” musician Nagel3 found the possibilities of digital production lacking of intuitive and flexible interaction with given situations which again led to an intensified occupation with live-sampling. 2004/5 he experimented with a drummer and a guitarist, recording sounds directly to a computer and returning the processed sounds to the PA, such acting as a third instrument. Apart from these processed sounds Nagel3 used prepared samples and synthetic sounds. This technique, althogh further developed, still is an integral part of current projects. Space is essential for nagel3’s sound installations. Comparable to working with the sound of musicians microphones are spread out over a room or any other space and incoming sounds are processed digitally. Movement detectors and triggering devices make possible to transform movement to sound as incoming signals set off MIDI-messages which result in synthetic or sampled sounds. Contrary to the conventional performance of a band Nagel3 does not intend to do a concert. Ideally the sound is not in the centre of attention but , like illumination, shapes the atmosphere of a space. ..
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Member Since:

September 18, 2008

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Sounds Like:

Look at my 24h Live-Sampling Project : www.in-front-of.com

Record Label:

www.hirncutmusic.de