Asmus Tietchens is a German electronic musician who has pursued "absolute m… Read Full Bio ↴Asmus Tietchens is a German electronic musician who has pursued "absolute music" through an almost mathematical process of rigid formal exercises. With strong ties to Karlheinz Stockhausen's early electronic work, Tietchens specializes in irregular patterns of sonic abstractions that are suspended in gray drones to create cold textural voids from external references.
His music is often inspired and refers to the texts of the philosopher E.M Cioran.
His music is often inspired and refers to the texts of the philosopher E.M Cioran.
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Teilmenge 1a
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Pablo Smith
Let’s be honest here, very difficult & demanding music (if we can call that so) to listen to. But….. It’s a strangely very rewarding experience for the patient listener. Hidden sounds, tones and textures slowly revealing themselves, in time. Feels like the Jean-Paul Sartre or the Alejandro Jodorowsky of the music. It demands effort and time to be able to extract enjoyment. Quite a unique aural experience, thanks alot for the upload! Much appreciated.
Renegade Soundsurfer
If this is the Jean-Paul Sartre of music, please bring on the Simone de Beauvoir too
Steven Streight
Honestly, it's horrid commercial pop music that I find "difficult", as it is "demanding" that I accept mediocrity and crass imitation. Asmus Tietchens orchestrates interesting sounds in a very pleasant manner.
Teddy Dog
@Renegade Soundsurfer I think that'd be Puce Mary or maybe Eliane Radigue. Lovely the two of them. And yes - dense, abstract and difficult.
Teddy Dog
I don't know how he created these sounds. I don't know his musical or philosophical reasons. I know next to nothing about music theory period. I just know there are mountains of music like this out there. Not like this specifically but music that fits no category and which many wouldn't call it music at all. Obvious examples might be later installments of the Caretakers Everywhere at the End of Time or Richard Chartier and 'lowercase music' in general or even the Vomit Arsonist if you want to get physical about it. I just know it's relaxing and deep and I love it. You can actually find stuff extremely similar in the Mothers of Invention or early (and especially live) Pink Floyd. The German group Faust also seem a lot more interested in sounds than songs. My own favorite Tod Dockstader called it 'Organized Sound' (If you like this I think you'll LOVE his 'Aerial'). If a theoretician or even someone who knows what this music is made of and its purpose reads this I'm genuinely interested to learn because this and organized sound like it is now my favorite type of music. I feel good when I hear it is my intellectual analysis of it. Btw there are two more 'Menge' albums by Tietchens of comparable length. His album with Vidna Obmana 'Motives for Recycling' is awesome imo and maybe one degree more accessible. Any fans of the Residents who read this will love his 'pop' albums on Sky Records. My guess is they were totally unaware of each other but I believe it's music from the same planet.
Actually if you like Autechre you're more than ready for this and anything else in the vast ocean of unclassifiable musical weirdness out there now. Ignore people who say music sucks now. Popular music sure does but the underground has never been better.
Pablo Smith
@Teddy Dog Awesome intelligent post! Had a great time reading it, thanks for sharing your interesting thoughts.
yuki kaneko
thank you for taking the time to post this wonderful sound
Steven Streight
Love it.
Tony Stephen
flows along nicely and the cat loves it too/
Steven Streight
I don't believe this is "difficult music" -- it's super simple and easy to enjoy, so long as you are unshackled from Western civilization music theory and can appreciate precision noise bursts flowing in a jejune electric river of non-negotiable nuances. I listen to Asmus Tietchens almost exclusively lately. Thanks for this upload.