A Moment Later…it was gone.
https://soundcloud.com/terjedb/a-moment-later-it-was-goneand
https://soundcloud.com/terjedb/katapetasmaKatapetasma
I´m in the process of shaping these works in progress.
A Moment Later…it was gone.
https://soundcloud.com/terjedb/a-moment-later-it-was-goneand
https://soundcloud.com/terjedb/katapetasmaKatapetasma
I´m in the process of shaping these works in progress.
Here it is, a new track with a new sound and perhaps direction, but quite distinctly my work. With Three Empaths I began doodling with emulated drum machines and sequencers – with sincere awe and admiration for the very few in the 80´s and 90´s
that managed to make good use of it, and indifference to the countless that could not or would not. I think one barely conscious decision I made were to question “what if” –
what if I applied pressure, tension – plugged it directly and virginally in the mains and
let them rip. The Professor – is a little meditation on barely making the surface of communication, when I read the novel “A briefing for a descent into hell” by Doris Lessing
for the first time, it reminded me of the exploits of necromancers and spiritists cajoling and
hauling the spirits back to our earth to answer trivial and piffle question, where oh where did dear old uncle Alexander bury the golden watch before he died, and was he faithful to Doris, and so forth. Except the protagonist is a person who has on the surface of things lost his mind and appear unable to interact with anything outside of his feverish introverted imagination; he´s the spirit, and we are made to sympathise with his resistance to the call of the real.
So you´re in a club and you believe you hear a repetitive churn of synthetic for-lack-of-a-better-word dance music; it´s the pall of whitened walls and unpleasantly bright electric light, everyone is wearing white, the air smells of strong antiseptic, generic lavender soap.
But through minute gaps of the reel an even brighter light shines in, twisting, turning, distorting the fabric of the bleak and common scene. Revealing the seams and fixes from
the cutting board, incomplete. I intended a more straightforward cut, I got reeled in, it took
a whole lot more time to “think” this process and translate it into a continuity of sound and
sense. Still a work-in-progress. Wife said the germans would like it. Compared it to krautrock, i.e. Can. I´m not sure I would, for very many reasons, none detrimental to Can.
I finally decided to renew my account at Soundcloud . It does not quite look and feel like it used to do for users of the service, but it still cut it after a lot of thinking on my part.
The project/ Work in Progress bin is full, figuratively, practically speaking I have a whole lot of minutes, hours, to fill – if that should be my fancy. I should test the quality and feel of most of it, don´t be surprised if tracks will begin to disappear and appear quite different from the originals. For now most of the tracks is still there.
I am proud to be featured with a track among many innovative, experimentative, creative musicians and producers, on this years Christmas compilation of the Petroglyph Music label.
with Track nr. 130. Terje Dahl Bergersen – Ohm2 03:50
You can preview and download the entire compilation for free at archives.org
https://archive.org/details/petroglyph185PetroglyphMusic-The_xmas_compilation_2013
There is also a player on the Right side of the Compilation page.
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas,
With regards,
Terje Dahl Bergersen
http://www.soniccouture.com/blog/soniccouture-competition-2013/?rmxid=166
Some time ago I added Gardens Lit by Starlight to my Soundcloud page. Now I have decided to share it further on occasion of the Soniccouture User Tracks Competition.
Here it is.
http://soundcloud.com/terjedb/gardens-lit-by-starlightA note on this work in progress: Apart from some audio engineering/ balance and dynamics, I consider it finished, it´s included in the project Cordial/Cranial which in the future will become an album of ambient/soundscape instrumental tracks. I was inspired
to shift from traditional sequencers, synths and programmed drum machines towards solo
instrumentation on the Soniccouture Morpheus . Morpheus is a Virtual instrument for the
Sampler environment software Kontakt 5 by Native Instruments. It is based on the Morpheus by Freenotes, which is a modern xylophone. For Xylophone music I have very little reference by ear, so I extemporated a whole array of different shifts and movements until I found something that fit with the rest of the track. I am actually quite content with the result, but will give the adaptability and high quality of the instrument some of the credit.
A new track has been added to my Soundcloud account, Barren, a little more musicality but the same introspective and bleak feel.
Petri Dish Blues
A composition in no fixed genre, meditation on the growth and decline of life in the confines of a petri dish. Culture? Signal-to-Noise, or the entertainment industry, stasis-to-migraine…
https://soundcloud.com/terjedb/petri-dish-blues