Goem: Gast: liner notes

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Gast

Goem

Gast

Mutek_rec | MTK CLB01 | 2001

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by Richard di Santo |mtk_clb01-0001|

Not a compilation but collaborative works generated by Goem, at their hotel room while at Mutek 2001, 11 microsound unreleased tracks.

“All of the tracks on this release were recorded adjacent to the 2001 edition of MUTEK, a five-day festival of music, sound and new technologies in Montréal. It was on this occasion where I met with Goem members Frans de Waard, Roel Meelkop and Peter Duimelinks. When we weren’t in the concert halls we took our time to explore the restaurants along Saint-Laurent, among which we sampled some of the best Thai food many of us had ever tasted (I seem to remember Taylor Deupree raving about the papaya soup). On Sunday, with I8U as our guide, we took a short drive to see a sound installation by Carsten Nicolai at the Silo #5, only to be thwarted by barricades and the unstoppable rain. Sitting in the van along with Martin and Drew of Matmos, Richard Chartier, Taylor Deupree and Mitchell Akiyama (it was a large van), disappointed but not discouraged, we initiated our own impromptu performance by jamming to the sounds of the windshield wipers, each of us adding a different sound by whatever means within reach. And finally, between the food, the concerts, the walks and road trips, we would often find our way back to Goem’s hotel room, where they invited us to create original mixes of their sound material. They set up their mobile studio on a small table by the window. The room overlooked a parking lot and the side of a building fraught with discoloration and graffiti, the colours of which seemed to grow more salient when wet with the spring rain. The setup was deceptively simple, and yet there existed a near infinity of possibilities with any given mix. While each track carries something of Goem’s sound aesthetic - exploiting the subtle tensions fabricated between minimal pulses and short loops - it’s also clear that each one carries the particular mark of its creator. Further, and more to the point, each track has managed to capture a small part of the creative spirit which marked our time together in Montréal, a spirit now celebrated and documented in this release.”

Richard di Santo [xi-01]

Goem: Gast: liner notes

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