STEFAN GOLDMANN / ENSEMBLE 180° : Input (The Sofia Versions)

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Format: CD [MACROM81]
Shipping Weight: 0.09lbs
Label: Macro

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'Stefan Goldmann’s 'Input' translates electronic music into performance formats for human players of acoustic instruments. The standard remix process is thus inverted, by providing the electronics first. Then composers backwards-engineer what they hear into scores for ensemble. The original, synthesized version isn’t available for the audience: Its hidden shape can only be guessed at through its acoustic translations.
By collaborating with multiple composers, the process of direct auditory comparison allows for multidimensional insights. It reveals common traits in unlikely places and highlights differences between individual approaches. Ambiguities of sound/score relations, emergent parallelisms and unexpected congruencies become part of the sensory and cognitive experience.
The three versions in this release – by Daniel Chernov, Adrian Pavlov and Lukas Tobiassen – were recorded at Sofia's 180 Degrees Festival and performed by the stellar group of musicians from Bulgaria, France and Switzerland which came together in Ensemble 180°. The pristine live recordings were further processed by Stefan Goldmann and now resemble a stunning sonic hall of mirrors, with multiple vectors of transformation embedded in this dialogue.'

- Input
1 Химера / Chimera
Written By – Lukas Tobiassen, Stefan Goldmann
2 Big Drop
Written By – Daniel Chernov, Stefan Goldmann
3 Gnomon (A)
Written By – Adrian Pavlov, Stefan Goldmann
4 Extension 1
Written By – Stefan Goldmann
- Études Spectrales
Written By – Stefan Goldmann
5 I
6 II
7 III

Artwork – Viet Hoa Le
Bass Clarinet, Clarinet – Yavor Gaidov
Flute – Delphine Roche
Oboe – Valentine Collet
Piano – Gilles Grimaître
Producer, Mixed By, Remix – Stefan Goldmann
Recorded By, Mixed By – Laura Endres
Viola – Elitsa Bogdanova
Violin – Ivaylo Danailov
Violoncello – Stefan Hadjiev

Input was commissioned by Weimarer Frühjahrstage Festival, Germany, in 2015. The original work is an electroacoustic composition which is made available only to composers as material for adaptations for ensemble. The three versions which are featured here were commissioned by and recorded live at 180° Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2016.
The recordings were processed and further manipulated by Stefan Goldmann in Berlin in 2025.
Études Spectrales (2025) are based on additional recordings of the same musicians made during the same performance.