Brilliant layering and epic sounds... Thanks guys, this made my day :) - Tommi

@viewmusic: thanks a lot! great to hear! cheers!

Very nice transitions in this piece. And great production skills.

Loving this! Crystal clear production, moving sounds soothing tones. Great job man!

Tools manipulated in an old workshop, clocks slowed down, the spinning wheel of a rusty bike, children playing near a church, the sound of the wind in Norfolk, climbing up the stairs in a disused windmill, ghost echoes. Those are some sounds that constitute the atmosphere of The Silent Watcher. Presented in their raw form or heavily processed, they all relate to old memories, often blurred and incomplete; the aural equivalent of a faded polaroid. From field recordings, layers are created, manipulated, taken apart and rebuilt and soon begin to tell a story - a story often buried under droney textures and fragmented melodies and only partially revealed, but more often distorted and reconstructed.

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Dåbermann is an electronic collective, consisting of Chris Muller, Timo Schmitz and Niklas Froese. They used to meet every now and then to improvise using Ableton and various gear and instruments. 

Back in 2011 we were planning on an album release together so the guys packed up and booked a beatiful remote little house in the woods for two weeks as a creative retreat of sorts. On their way there a storm broke and one of them got hit by a lightning. Nothing bad happened but for obvious reasons they couldn't focus on recording music and that's about all there is to it :)

This recording of one of their jam sessions dates back from 2009 and it has definitely stood the test of time. Maybe someday new stuff will surface, you never know..
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@dabermann aka @sundur, @hamer and @nckn

Dåbermann - Dåbermix 001

There is a small town in Belgium, called Neerpelt, where they have this wonderful place: Klankenbos, which translates to "Soundforest". Initiated by musica.be, they invite sound-artists to contribute installations to the forest. So visitors can go around and experience sound in new ways. 

Just to give an example: there is a glass-cube in the forest, which you can only access through an underground tunnel. Being there, it isolates you from the environmental forest-sounds to bring awareness to what you normally don't take attention to. The concept is inspired by John Cage's famous piece 4:33, which is basically 4 minutes and 33 seconds of  musical silence.

Another one: A giant flute. In fact so big, that you can go into it. You close the big steel-door behind you and a huge fan starts "blowing" air on the opening of the flute. The created sound is of such a low frequency (maybe around 20-30Hz) that you literally stand inside of the wave and physically feel how the sound goes through your body. Impressive.

There are many more installations, so if you happen to be around that area, it is definetely worth a visit! Check their website: musica.be or flip through the Klankenbos Info-PDF: http://www.musica.be/Portals/97/Files/Klankenbos/CATALOGUS_WEB.pdf

There is a small wooden cottage called "RadioForest", which was initially created to broadcast the moods of the wood. Now it is a place for workshops and several installations. For example, they have soundscapes being played within the wooden walls of the building. You have to approach with your ear to listen to soundscapes evolving around the topic of "forest". 

This is where Dåbermann comes into place: we were invited to contribute such a Soundscape to the collection. Instead of just delivering it, we went to Klankenbos to have an improvised session right in that setting. Besides of some instruments, we used just sounds we collected earlier in the forest. 

You can find some pictures of our performance at their webpage:
http://www.musica.be/Default.aspx?tabid=11881&language=nl-NL

It was a very nice experience, these are the kinds of places we Dåbermen like. So if you happen to be in Klankenbos next time, you will probably listen to our Radioforest Soundscape there. Enjoy!

(If you don't want to take on the travel cost, download the file and listen at home :) 


[to see pictures, visit http://dabermann.tumblr.com/post/548976123/radioforest-soundscape]

Radioforest Soundscape

"Here's The Blur" is taken off Jane's Junkyard. 
It's released on 25 june 2013 on 12'' through the dutch recordlabel Lowriders Recordings.

You can buy the release here: 
http://lowridersrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/janes-junkyard
or here: clone.nl/item27723.html

Imagine a place where tattered bits of unmusical ingredients are cast aside and forgotten. Where the rough and ugly pieces of sound are tossed and left to decompose. It's the very place where Dutch sound designer Julien Mier spends his days sifting through the rubble to reclaim broken sounds and save them from their demise. Julien utilizes the unique characteristics of each sound, arranging them together, creating exciting new environments overflowing with both beauty and emotion. Welcome to Jane’s Junkyard.

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Here's The Blur

Dåbermann is an electronic collective, consisting of @sundur,  @hamer and @nckn. They meet now and then to improvise using ableton. 

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