himmeltindan - UTR4192 - Jazz - par Unit Records - tindan I tindan II tindan III tindan IV tindan V

"himmeltindan" is based on the musical diary of the electro-acoustic duo , who spent in the spring of 2006 a semester working abroad on the lofoten island VestvÃ¥gøy. The two musicians from Biel, Gaudenz Badrutt (synthesizer, electronics) and Christian Müller (bass clarinet, electronics), developed out of their improvised recordings a CD concept that could be described as a modular sound system: There are 2'432'902'008'176'640'000 possibilities to listen to "himmeltindan". Here is when you would have to turn on the shuffle or random mode on your CD player. The twenty tracks are linked musically and form -in any order- correlations and continuations in terms of sound, content, form as well as time. They usually contain a key piece and a linking piece that connects the track before with the one afterwards. But metamorphoses and variations are misleading: Linking pieces can become key pieces and vice versa, thus creating variable compositions of the basic form. In this way this CD surprises with a new form and new correlations every time you listen to it. Gaudenz Badrutt, pianist and electronic musician (*1972) and Christian Müller (*1971), clarinetist and electronic musician. Both studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Berne/Biel. Under the name of the two artists from Biel mix various ingredients: electro-acoustic improvisation with conceptual music, contemporary music ideas with free jazz explosions, down to earth, drifty energy with spheric sound. Under stage director Barbara-David Brüesch produced a variety of theater music (e.g. for the Stadttheater Berne or the Staatstheater Stuttgart), played in rock cellars, at art openings, in the scope of installationary open-air concerts and with various musicians, such as Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, Ernst Thoma, Urs Leimgruber and Jacques Demierre. In 2004, the band won the first prize at the Concours de Reding (a competition for improvisation of the Swiss association of musicians / Schweizerischer Tonkünstlerverein). They spent half a year working on the lofoten islands in 2006.