Label: Glistening Examples - GLEX1704

赤ラベルに抽象的アートワークという一貫したジャケイメージで既に20タイトル近く音源を発表している、オランダの大ベテランFrans de Waardの2014年始動の変名Modelbau。短波ラジオ、小型シンセサイザー、2ビットサンプリングデバイスを用いたアナログな砂嵐ノイズ&太い電子持続音により構築される、ネットリ且つ重々しいアブストラクト・ドローン。Glistening Examplesからのリリース作。



Modelbau is not the latest in a series of names used by Frans de Waard to create music, but it is indeed his most recent solo vehicle.
"Each of the names, and that includes my own name, stands for something particular, an idea, and something not found in the other monikers I am using. Modelbau is, like Freiband, not a proper German word (it should be Modellbau, but I thought that looked ugly) and as such is probably already a lo-fi name, and as such also very personal. As a musician I have noy a particular instrument, nor do I favour any technqiue, and I think one should use what is needed for a particular project or a piece of music.
When I started Modelbau, I wanted to use various lo-fi sound sources, such as Dictaphones, walkman, shortwave radio, small synthesizers and such like. This would not be a project for improvisation, but more or less planned pieces of music. All of which to be released in the digital domain only. That was in 2012. Now, in 2017, almost nothing is left of this outline, and yet the music is very much what I envisaged as Modelbau. These days Modelbau uses pre-recorded cassettes, iPad apps, sound effects, laptop, shortwave radio, small synthesizers, ancient 2bit sampling device; everything is recorded on the spot, as is, and without multi-tracking and very minimal editing (save for fades and mastering) released as downloads, but also on cassette, CDs and CDrs. Vinyl is only a matter of time. Whenever Modelbau plays a concert (all of which are recorded) preparations are made, and these are also recorded; sometimes they have these preparations can have the length of a concert, but they can also be single pieces of a few minutes. All of these recordings are archived and whenever a release is prepared, the latest sessions are listened to again."
"The pieces on 'Radiance' were all recorded on a single, particular fruitful evening in March 2017, preparing material for a forthcoming tour in the Baltics. Free form, spacious, and lo-fi, ...complex and minimal, ...steady and yet always with movement, this is classic Modelbau music.