i've started a little free improvisational recording project in the end of december. i've planned to do tracks for several concepts , and for each concept i will use different instrumentation or something like that. I don't think it's going to be published, but it's cool the record basically for one self. of course i will upload some of them from time to time(222,333 and 555 are in the player right now).
The first 'episode'(Trapped) will have tracks on them which chords are based on certain slonimsky patterns ( the lowest notes of the chords in succession are that patterns) and it will be played by guitar only.

HEADSUP(5/8/2009): Is 'trapped' is going to be released on q-tone later this year :) stay tuned for more info and maybe some live-concerts, since the solo concert with ableton on the kulturnacht went pretty o.k. (despite some technical issues i wasn't able to eliminate ^^)
stay ALSO tuned for tunes of a second episode (NOT axxon, but something different i didn't find a name for ,yet)

HEADSUP (10/28/2009) The CD is now (since about august) available on http://www.q-tone.com/  and if you're contacting me directly. (Makes a good christmas present as well.. )

WANDERING
Trapped
1. 111.271208 (trap)
2. 222.291208 (spine)
3. 333.311208 (pouring)
4. 444.020109 (couché)
5. 555.250109 (aswoon)
6. 666.280109 (xenochrony)
7. 777.010209 (waft)
8. 888.160209 (rougeoyer)
9. 999.230209 (dismember)

Axxon

April 27 2008
Well, I think it's time to officially anounce the works on a new solo-project which is more and more getting into shape ( conceptwise).
Workingtitle so far is 'Maya' which means illusoriness/illusion in indian/sanskrit.
The overall concept is inspired by hermann hesses 'Steppenwolf' in which he states at some point, that the main person not only consists of two persons (the wolf and the man) but of many others. and (if i remember right) later he says that even that is an illusion.
The songs in the project, will all be displaying one 'person' (e.g. the dying, the loving, ...)
Each of song will have some conceptual peculiarities which are related to that specific 'persona'.
So far i have just one of the tunes completed(don'tknow yet what instruments,...). and three others started .
Due to the flop/failure of 'A stare into space' it seems very unlikely ,that it will be sold/released, but i very much enjoyed the process of making ASIS, thats why i start this :)

Tracklist:
1.----------------(new born)
2.Chére Inconnue(The loving)
3.----------------(The active )
4.Yoda ----------(The balanced)
5.Cohaghyrt [working as mirror](Coincidence)
6.----------------(The imbalanced)
7.Alasya(?)------(The lethargic)
8.----------------(The hating)
9. Vergere ------(The dying)

(i know the titles vergere and chere inconnue were already used for loop-tunes, but they fit better there ;D )

EDIT(October 14 2008):
It will be structured differently a bit. The songs/content evolve around a story, which i will point out another time.
The project will still be mirrored:
- songstructure wise: first half are thoroughly composed pieces and the second half include a lot of structured improvising.
- story wise.
Also the working title has changed (Cohaghyrt/Maya [gaeliac for coincidence]/[sanskrit/indian for illusion])

[Lux](improvisational)
[''successfull love''](improvisational)          
[Odysseus](improvisational)
[Yoda](improvisational)                            x
[Alasya](improvisational)                          x
->[Scáthán](composed->improvisational) x
[''boisterous''](composed)
[''the imbalanced''](composed)
[Selma](composed)                                  x
[Chére Inconnue](composed)                   x
[Vergere](composed)                               x

So far I have completed the imrpvisational concepts for 'Yoda'(requires ,like impro-part of Scáthán a few thoughts on practicability, but i'm quite sure it will work), 'Alasya', and 'Lux'(which requires, like Yoda still some 'background composing'), and the improvisational part of 'Scáthán'.
I'm also done with 'Chére Inconnue' and 'Vergere'. 'Selma' should be completed ,too in around November.
All in all it's pretty time consuming but I'm getting more and more focused on what it shoudl sound and feel like, which might be a good sign.:D

EDIT (December 13th 2008)

'Selma' is completed now. and the first page(and the measures for the whole tune) or so of 'the imbalanced', for which i didn't find a name ,yet,  were done last sunday/monday. I think that one can be completed until new year.
and since i have my ableton live now, i will start recording in one week :)

here are the 6 videos i have uploaded on youtube.

Each one differs a bit in improvisation concept and sound, so they're not all the same.

Here we go:

Improvisation 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxR4VCL_aU

Improvisation 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chi6ZRiiM6M

Improvisation 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3rVpXDqYw

Improvisation 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT6EeWKj8Oo

Improvisation 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBQSPqmuUc0

Improvisation 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlsQcWMOc7A

Just got mail with some sheets of music(Blood,sweat+tears, thelonious monk) + the note, that the group that played the musical in april, will 'form' up again to create a 'forum that is creative and innovative'.
Sounds fun, especially, that the ones of us, that compose ,are free to hand out arrangements of our pieces. :)

greetings,

well, here are the reviews so far. I'm sorry for it being just in german, but i think it's allright, since i have quite some german-speaking people in my friends list :)

Sascha Muhr ist Baujahr 1989. Mit 18 Jahren veröffentlicht er sein Solodebüt "A Stare Into Space" - nach solch einem Debüt, was wird da noch alles kommen? Es braucht musikalischen Freigeist, diese Sounds und Klänge zu lieben, und einige Offenheit, einiges Hörgefühl, sich darauf einzulassen, die Stücke zu erobern, anzunehmen. Was hier in 9 Tracks zu hören ist, hat mit ‚Songs' und dergleichen nichts zu tun. Von Eingängigkeit kann hier nicht die Rede sein, nicht von Radiotauglichkeit. Das ist keine Platte, die schnell mal eine Stunde verkürzt, zum Bier, zum Pogen oder Matteschütteln einlädt. Obwohl Sascha Muhr das handwerklich gewiss auch drauf hat, nur eben keine Ambitionen dazu.
Sascha spielt Gitarren, Tabla, Synthesizer, Violine, Weingläser, lässt Sounds erklingen, hat programmiert, manches, was hier zu hören ist, war geplant, anderes nicht. Im Booklet steht: sounds (intentional, non-intentional and digestive-sort-of). Alles hat er selbst getan, die Kompositionen, die Einspielung, die Produktion, nicht zuletzt Konzept und Artwork. Was macht er am Nachmittag?
Im Alter von 13 Jahren hat er sich für Rockmusik interessiert, bald darauf begonnen, die E-Gitarre zu erobern, mit Lehrer. An der Musikschule begann er sich mehr und mehr für instrumentale Musik zu interessieren und stieg in die, immerhin gibt es, meine Hochachtung, in Rottenburg-Ergenzingen so etwas, Jazz-Fusion-Band der Musikschule ein. Schließlich explodierte sein Musikinteresse, mit Fokus auf Neue Musik, Worldmusic und Fusion.
Mit 16 Jahren komponierte er erste Songs und im Februar 2007 begann Sascha, das Konzept für diese CD, sein Großprojekt, auszuarbeiten.
Die neun Stücke sammeln 65 Minuten Musik. Stilistisch sind Saschas Ideen nicht leicht festzumachen, er erzeugt atmosphärische Klänge, die mal melancholisch-düster, dann verträumt, oder schließlich auch aggressiv, vital und äußerst lebhaft sein können. Auf der Basis elegischer Sounds, die wohl vom Synthesizer stammen, ebenso aber auch auf der elektrischen Gitarre gespielt sein können, und wie Traumgebilde unterschwellig dösen, spielt Sascha erstaunlich melodische und erstaunlich sanfte Melodiemotive auf der elektrischen Gitarre, die neben großem handwerklichem Geschick ein gutes Ohr, einige Inspiration und viel Sensibilität verraten.
Angenehm ist die lockere Atmosphäre, vieles scheint verspielt, aus dem Moment gegriffen, hat dazu aber zu viel Inhalt, ist dazu zu vielschichtig, zu harmonisch und geräumig. Sein Faible für harmonische Strukturen ist nicht gering ausgearbeitet. Die Stücke fließen angenehm, ohne seicht oder oberflächlich zu sein. Ein ähnliches Werk hat in den 1980er Jahren ein Jazzgitarrist eingespielt, der verhallte Klang der Gitarre und der tonale Rahmen haben Ähnlichkeit, leider ist mir, Morbus Parkinson lässt grüßen, der Name entfallen. (Irgendwo habe ich aber gewiss noch die Platte!)
Es gibt Parallelen zum Jazz, zur ambienten Musik, zur Fusion. Aber nirgends passt "A Stare Into Space" hinein. Der Name deutet es an, die CD ist ein verträumtes Gedankengebilde. Ein Album, auf das er stolz sein kann und in das wir unbedingt reinhören sollten! - Volkmar Mantei ( www.ragazzi-music.de)

Habe deine CD gehört und find die total abgefahren und gut. Dafür lässt dich der Gott der Weltraummusik bestimmt in seinen Himmel. Ich könnte mir das zum Teil auch gut als Filmmusik vorstellen. Erinnert auch ein bischen an Alan Holdsworth in Halftime. Ich bin auf jeden Fall begeistert und freue mich auf News. - Oliver Hanf ( www.myspace.com/oliverhanf)

Hammer. Ich check zwar auch nach 10 mal hören viele Songs immernoch nicht, aber ist total spannend zu hören und ich denke das ist, was du mit der Musik erreichen willst :)
- M.Bloech

[...]Dazu komponiert er erstmal einen kurzen Grundbaustein. Dieser wird dann per Computer immer wieder wiederholt (,,geloopt''), und Muhr schichtet neue Elemente darüber,[...].Am Ende klingt es, als spiele ein ganzes Ensemble.
So entsehen atmosphärische, verträumte Klänge; nichts für den Easy-Listening-Genuss, nichts fürs Radio und den Massengeschmack. Die 65-Minuten CD beginnt zögerlich, verhalten, doch dann läuft Muhrs Musik zu vollem, satten Klang auf.- Michael Hahn (Schwäbisches Tagblatt)

when i first saw the amount of rehearsal-dates i was quite shocked, and a bit pissed off, but it developed in something really cool. and the four dates of playing were cool ,too. same goes for the response of the audience.
at first we had problems with the sound in our 'corner' because we didnt hear the e-drum + the e-piano very well, but on the third day we were tight as hell.
The actors ,too, were very cool and friendly. Normally one would say 'something magic had happened' ,but well....no...it didn't^^ but i'm looking forward to play again with the band guys.

Apparently my Mail-account has been hacked and is now sending out penis-enlargement-mails. since i'm now getting a veryveryvery high number 'Mail failure blablabla' mails that are jamming my mailbox i will switch to another mail adress:
muhri@web.de

as i was playing around with my violin, my self-bought-for-christmas Sennheiser E906 and my old Shure SM57, to get good mic-positions for recording the first song of my next project (which will be written out,completely ,i think) i couldn't resist playing around with the clips :)

you can hear the result on the track 'aurora borealis' :)
have fun

nur ums noch im Blog festzuhalten:
Für Kunden aus Deutschland ists jetzt möglich über meinen paypal-shop zu kafuen :)
link gibts in der startseite von meinem profil :)

grüße

-  CD is going to be pressed this or next week. I will then send it to some magazines 'n stuff. ->Excited :)

-I asked my music-school-head to listen to my stuff (because my musicteacher in the regular school didn't want to accept a CD as an additional effort/blablabla; later it came to my mind, that she propably thought, that I did a pop-rock sort-of CD.)
so i asked the musicschool-head. and he liked it and even promised to get me a contact to the professor of electronic composition at the university of stuttgart, to show him the stuff :)
HOW COOL IS THIS? :D

-Started stuff for the next project, which will be all composed, and (at least i think i will do it like that) no improvisation (which representet AT LEAST 35% of 'a stare into space'
Got to ideas worked out a bit.

First one was meant to be some kind of requiem for my dog (which is fortunately alive still). It's so far a 5-voice peace sounding VERY fluid and non rhythmic.
But i think i will split one or two voices into two instruments. Will see :)

The second one started out as a experiment on the tablas :)  many odd meters ! some guitar stuff composed over it, yet . should sound quite decent :)


greetings,
Sascha