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Austrian electronic musician Peter "Pita" Rehberg was one of the pioneers of
dissonant music composed through digital noise.
He contributed to formalize the "glitch" aesthetics with
Seven Tons For Free (Mego, 1996), a concerto for pulse signals,
Get Out (Mego, 1999), which was the cacophonous equivalent of a
romantic symphony, and the more humane
Get Down (Mego, 2002).
The trilogy of collaborations with Ramon "General Magic" Bauer,
Fasst (Touch, 1997), Ballt (Touch, 1999) and
Passt (Touch, 2001), was his most comprehensive exploration of
digital noise, but mostly sounded indulgent and naive.
Pop Album (Tochnit Aleph) documents live performances of electronic noise
with Zbigniew Karkowski.
Stereoctypie (Asphodel, 2005), credited to Dach and featuring a Japanese
vocalist, is one of his most romantic works.
The eight-track mini-album Get Off (Hapna, 2005),
the third installation in Pita's "Get" series (following 1999's
Get Out and 2002's Get Down), is a veehement exercise in
psychological contrast, alternating quasi-silence to bursts of noise, but
the concept hardly sounds revolutionary in 2005.
After a brief overture, Eternal, of tinkling bells and slowly-revolving
celestial drones, that projects the illusion of a calmer, soothing Pita,
the brutal eight-minute modulated crescendo of dissonance of
Like Watching Shit on a Shelf brings back his most unrelenting
visions of the digital apocalypse, sounding like the a horde of agonizing nuclear-damaged monsters.
calm, but not humanity, is briefly restored with Resog 45, that initially
sounds like a dialogue between androids and high-tension wires before exploding
into a machine-gun fire of harsh tones.
The four following tracks are intriguing terror-filled ideas, but Pita does not
take the time to develop them.
The collection thus comes to an abrupt end with the nine-minute Retour,
a high-pitched drone that is rather pointless and uneventful compared with the
four shorter tracks that preceded it.
Only the erratic Pita knows why waste nine minutes that could have been used
to further develop better concepts.
KTL was a collaboration between Pita and
Stephen O'Malley of SUNNO))).
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