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Fritz Hauser
(1953, Switzerland) is an improvising percussionist who
established his innovative and encyclopedic style (restricted to the
simplest forms of drums and cymbals) with the solo performances
of Solodrumming (april 1985), recorded in a building whose acoustics provide
a seven-second echo, and Pensieri Bianchi (may 1990),
as well as the twin discs Die Trommel (november 1987) and Die Welle (november 1988).
He also recorded several collaborations with Urs Leimgruber.
Collaborations include:
Zwei (december 1987) with vocalist Lauren Newton,
The Mirror (march 1989) with church organist Stephen Greider,
etc.
2 2 1 3 2 4 3 4 1 4 1 (june 1992) was another solo album.
The double-disc Deep Time (october 1994 - Deep Listening, 2005) contains two performances of a Fritz Hauser composition commissioned in 1991, and here performed by Fritz Hauser on percussion and found sounds with Pauline Oliveros on accordion, David Gamper on small instruments and Urs Leimgruber on saxophones,
who improvise with/against Hauser's tape of sounding stones, watches and clocks.
The real protagonist is the tape (and the post-processing of the instrumental
sounds). Hauser's tape carries out a broad sonic excursion that explores all
dimensions of sound. For example, the intensity ranges from loud/chaotic to
almost pure silence (mostly the latter).
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