Risse

by Butterland

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1.
Mitlaut 04:36
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Schwerkraft und Zündholz und Brot 06:00
3.
(Wechseltierchen) 02:47
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Gedanken aus Glas 06:48
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Richtung Meer 05:09

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The short album (so actually more of an EP) is a snapshot of our slowly decaying kitchen floor – century-old cement tiles, originally put in when the house was built, sunk and broken in over time. Frottages Regina made of the cracks served Christian as graphic notation for five electronic compositions. For four of these pieces, Regina wrote texts in which cliffs tower, progress gapes, and consonants trickle.

Der Puls des Nachbarn / dringt durch das Netz aus / undicht gewordenem / Bodenmaterial zu uns / hinauf in unsere / Gedanken unsere Herzen / unsere Haut / der Nachbar ist / so langsam und froh wie / ein Leguan er nickt uns zu / wenn wir ihn auf der Strasse / sehen wenn er uns im / Laden Wein oder schwarzen / Knoblauch verkauft / der Nachbar / lässt seinen Wagemut in / Wolkenfetzen verdampfen / deswegen ist sein Puls / meist ruhig aber stetig er / ist Geheimnissen aus diesem / Grund abgeneigt Überraschungen / Zwischenfällen Zweifeln.

We say Risse is an album because it was realised differently than most Butterland works so far: usually there is a joint research at the beginning, then comes the writing and at the end the music. For Risse, Regina wrote the lyrics to the music. That’s why the lyrics are shorter than usual, because they were written in real time, while listening to the tracks. To us, music and text fall into each other more urgently, maybe you could say: they approach each other with softer joints.

Risse was created in spring 2021 as a contribution to the publication Opjektpermanenzobjekte by Fabian Schneiker (HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, 2022). Object permanence means that children (and some animals) understand from a certain age that an object which they cannot see at the moment has not ceased to exist, but is simply hidden – like a ball behind the parental back.

We were interested in permanence as a path through or connection between different media – the object of kitchen tiles (somehow continuous in itself, but crumbly) was captured in the frottages. Christian used this flat representation of lines dividing space in certain proportions as a score for his pieces (he has not revealed exactly how he did this, though). Regina, in turn, used the pieces as a sonic template for her texts. So that in the end everything follows the same construction plan: coincidence directed towards decay.

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released March 22, 2021

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Butterland Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

The Switzerland based duo Butterland (Regina Dürig and Christian Müller) works in the field of stories and sound, their poetical and sculptural pieces seek a mutual approach to narration and reduction.

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