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December 27, 2009 - Sunday 
Net-label Zymogen proceeds gladdening fans of interesting electronic music with original releases. Recently album Sum by Tilman Ehrhorn became the 24th one in their catalogue. Tilman presents here under his new, not used earlier pseudonym Werken.


Listening to this music, I would say that creativity of Ehrhorn as an electronic musician has not cardinally changed since 2003, when his remarkable album Task was released on label Mille Plateaux. I think that this album is one of the best reflections of such influence as clicks'n'cuts - music of clicks, rustles, various glitch, cut into tiny pieces by quasiscissors and presented in the form of contrast mosaics of sound pieces. 

Though under his new alter ego Ehrhorn manipulates these scissors in another way - the structure of sound cuts' constructions gains more grace, gives way to the free experiment and to the flight of an artist's fancy. Here we can remember that the author of music works actively as a jazz musician. Techno is still somewhere near, we can feel its unique spirit, though connection with it became very thin and transparent.


That's impossible not to point out the first-class sound design in this interesting release. The whole spectrum of sounds in Sum was produced with the help of synthesizer Nord Modular - from tiniest clicks and crackle to bass-sections, noises and slow pads. Mosaics of synthesized sounds form by themselves the matt layers, some of them are very cold, the other are considerably warmer and brighter. They are changed by the next ones for many times and there are enough events for a full-value long-play.


Sound Proector / 17 Dec 2009



Zymogen nos presenta el álbum debut de Werken, seudónimo de Tilman Ehrhorn, previamente conocido ya por sus trabajos en, por ejemplo Mille Plateaux. Tilman es compositor de jazz, saxofonista, profesor y, entre varias cosas mas, diseñador de música electrónica.

"Sum" es un álbum de Glitch-Dub (clicks & cuts) en la linea de los primeros albumes de Poole o mas recientes de Krill Minima. Todos los sonidos han sido obtenidos de un sintetizador modular y un oscilador. 

Los envolventes "pads" del sintetizador están fragmentados y troceados, unas veces por las secciones rítmicas o por otros "pads", formando una inteligente estructura, continua desde el primer corte hasta el ultimo. Muy recomendable.

Netlabels & News / 15 Dec 2009

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December 26, 2009 - Saturday 



Werken – Sum


Sum is the debut album of Werken, one of the aliases of Tilman Ehrhorn known for his releases on Mille Plateaux and Resopal Schallware. This release introduces an experimental and ambientish dubby side of his producing skills. Almost every sound has been generated on a modular synthesizer.

"...That's impossible not to point out the first-class sound design in this interesting release..." (Sound Proector 12/2009)

"...Muy recomendable." (Netlabels & News 12/2009)

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December 14, 2009 - Monday 
Sum is the latest album of Werken, one of the aliases of Tilman Ehrhorn known for his releases on Mille Plateaux and Resopal Schallware, provided by italian netlabel Zymogen.

Working full time as saxophone and reed player, composer, producer and sound designer Tilman Ehrhorn is a highly regarded jazz artist who also took roots in the electronic world.

Among teaching, giving jazz clinics and regular work in theater, tv-, radio-, and cd- productions he has established himself as a composer as well as a performing artist in clubs, at festivals and for concert tours all over the world.

This release introduces an experimental and ambientish dubby side of his producing skills. Almost every sound has been generated on a modular synthesizer. Some important developing tools within the synth are sine- and noiseoscillators, with which also most of the percussion sounds are built.

The majority of tunes are crossfading to the following; the progress of the album ranges from the opening track to its closing reprise like of one piece.

In many parts of the tracks, beats are used rhythmically free to interrupt a pulsing soundpad, which is a main element of the music. Some minimal changing figures are taking hold to break up continous sequential patterns.

The non-conventional manner of generating sounds as well as using elements of chance within the production process creates similarities with the improvisational niveau of jazz and contemporary composed music.



Info: tilmanehrhorn.com
Download: zymogen.net
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