Subatomic Motion (i7 / sine tones / tape)

<div class="entry__text"> <p>The Pitch</p> <p>“A framework of understanding.”</p> <p>The pitch is a playing field. Four players</p> <p>trying to pitch something, an idea, a sound.</p> <p>A tone of definite frequency.</p> <p>The Pitch is a co-sharing of musical space,</p> <p>of certain parameters, limitations and an instrumental</p> <p>awkwardness collectively carried into brightness.</p> <p>Working out simple ideas to see how far</p> <p>we can take them. How long we can play them.</p> <p>How often we can handle them.</p> <p>Modes of interaction, rules of engagement,</p> <p>aesthetic agreements, instrumental limitations.</p> <p>Reducing material until we’ve reached the core.</p> <p>Initiative, shared intuition, collective composition, instrumentation.</p> <p>Bass harmonics doubling the clarinet,</p> <p>vibraphone rounding out the harmona,</p> <p>sine tones combining instrumental forces.</p> <p>The harmona is missing pitches. Playing such an archaic,</p> <p>flawed instrument is a deliberate limitation.</p> <p>We discovered how to sound together. What to play</p> <p>and when to play it. Every small decision having</p> <p>huge consequences for the outcome of the whole.</p> <p>It seems like we’ve just gotten started. / “It’s actually getting quite good now.”</p> <p>—- —- —- —-</p> <p>The Pitch was founded in Berlin in the year 2009 by BB, KN, MJO and MT with the aim to create a common musical language to be used to play structured improvisations; together and with guests. The peculiar instrumentation was a deliberate attempt to create an ensemble which would rather focus on pitch constellations and the creation of a group sound and group strategies than on the development of individual improvisational languages or elaborate extended instrumental techniques played at the same time.</p> <p>They have an upcoming concert with legendary Viennese ensemble Polwechsel, for which a new piece has been collectively composed by the two ensembles combining materials and strategies in real time.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ballhausost.de/produktionen/polwechsel-the-pitch/">www.ballhausost.de/produktionen/polwechsel-the-pitch/</a></p> <p>More sounds and information about The Pitch:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thepitch.tk/">www.thepitch.tk</a></p> <p>—- —- —- —-</p> <p><em>Subatomic Motion (i7 / sine tones / tape)</em></p> <p>The Pitch<br /> Boris Baltschun – pump organ, function generators<br /> Koen Nutters – upright bass<br /> Morten J Olsen – vibraphone<br /> Michael Thieke – clarinet</p> <p>Composed by The Pitch<br /> Recorded and transferred by Morten J Olsen<br /> Recorded in Berlin, April 2017</p> <p>Text by Koen Nutters</p> <p>*The first phrase of the writing was constructed late one night<br /> with the assistance of Martijn Tellinga.</p> </div>