You know something’s up with Stuttgart electronic
composer Guenter Schlienz when he starts literally listening to his DNA. He
says there are “sounds and styles … encoded” in it, and these “resonate heavily
in [his] mind” and “rattl[e] his bones,” until they’re forced to emerge via the
fingers touching synthesizers in certain predetermined patterns. These patterns
are encoded within a computer program. They are organized and refined. They are
offered up to the world.
Mutterkuchen finds
Schlienz pondering these broadcasts from within his own body, wondering how
they connect with the world and the wider universe, maybe offering a way that
he, himself, find meaning out there. He’s certainly connected to the artists
who have inspired him this time around: Bach on “Bach” (I think …), Tangerine
Dream and Cluster on “Spoonful of Stars” and also, quite obviously, “Kosmische
Music.” Basically he does what he does best, which is close his eyes and follow
a muse out into outer space, like far out, and the sound of it reaches our ears
at whatever point the soundwaves travel the interstellar distance back to our
receivers. He’s a human broadcasting system, somehow surviving out there.
Without a space suit.
But it’s really for him, and you can tell. The sound
is within him, and he channels it in reverence for itself on its own terms. Doesn’t
matter that there are antecedents and inspirations – they just help him
translate it. And we are the lucky recipients who have it all translated for
us. Bystanders, somehow in the path of excellence and delight.
Also, Mutterkuchen
translates to “mother cake” – seems obvious, I think?
https://guenterschlienz.bandcamp.com/
https://auasca.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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