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Christian Lillingers "open form for society"

by CHRISTIAN LILLINGER

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Aorta 06:08
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Thür 05:19
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Titan 03:02
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Basel 04:51
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Überwindung 01:29
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Laktat 05:09
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Mocking 03:37
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Toro Koma 03:13
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Sog 03:54
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Triangular 04:39
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KfkA 07:03

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CHRISTIAN LILLINGER'S “Open Form for Society” is released on Lillinger's own PLAIST label and will be available as 180g double vinyl (limited edition), CD and digital.
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Christian Lillinger - Composing, Drums, Concepts (Deutschland)
Antonis Anissegos - Grand Piano (Griechenland)
Kaja Draksler - Upright Piano (Slowenien)
Elias Stemeseder - Synthesizer, Piano (Österreich)
Christopher Dell - Vibraphone (Deutschland)
Roland Neffe - Marimbaphone, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel (Deutschland) Lucy Railton - Cello (Großbritannien)
Petter Eldh - Bass, Electric Bass (Schweden)
Robert Landfermann - Double Bass (Deutschland)

Open Form For Society is Christian Lillinger's most elaborate work to date.

OFFS tracks aspects which make up the qualities of Christian Lillinger's composition. Lillinger develops new chamber music within the sonic realm of PLAIST, new music, avant-garde jazz, hip hop and musique concrète (s. Composition). This takes place in cooperation with nine mostly young European musicians, who are leading instrumentalists in their respective music scenes.

The project as a framework:
Within a specific time-frame and at a specific location with selected musicians and a sound engineer. This creates a space in which structures can be created, interpreted, opened up, connected, opened up again and reconnected simultaneously. The process itself becomes part of the project and since it has been captured on film, each step in the creation can be fully understood.

OFFS is the realisation of Christian Lillinger's project, which started out two years ago with the development of compositions. His focus was on a free, intense, discursive process in the studio. The aim was to work without genre conventions but rather open up a creative flow amongst the musicians. The recording process, during which everyone involved worked closely together at the same location, took five days. It allowed for a realisation and further development of compositions, sound ideas as well as concepts.

The implementation of each step followed a carefully crafted plan and its execution was as intended; from its creative inception and post-production with co-producer Johannes Brecht to the design of the recording medium.
“Nothing was left to chance, no expenses spared. This is intended as a new standard of complexity mediation in music between sound membranes (speakers) and the listener”, says Christian Lillinger.

OFFS's model society should be regarded as a role-model for society in general. So it is no accident that the project is named after Karl Popper's Offene Gesellschaft (engl.= open society), which puts its trust in “people's critical thinking abilities”. The recording is a translation of this very principle into a discursive working progress.

The ensemble is multinational: three key instruments, two percussionists, two bassists, one cello and one drum set allow for high plasticity and depth definition. The musicians link new music, free improvisation, jazz and pop culture.


Compositions:
These are tightly structured compositions, whose musical source cannot easily be determined. Structures will be reconstructed, reconstructions will be structured. Serial processes play a role here. The album walks the line between composition, improvisation, intuition and interpretation. The compositions also entail the sound behind the sound, which is not always tangible and sometimes only perceived as an echo.

Polyrhythmic structures and melodies meet complex grooves, which have been produced like hip hop beats. Long, extremely virtuoso lines function as sonic acceleration and deceleration.

In terms of composition “musique concrète” means here to record compositions specifically in such a way that post-production for structure, frequency, intensity, tonal depth and sound design is possible and conceptually part of the composition process; a re-composition. Re-composition is part of the OFFS original concept. The sound was composed and produced with the aim of communicating its intended meaning. Thusly, a complete fusion of all listed elements was possible.

credits

released April 5, 2019

Recorded by Johannes Brecht at Clouds Hill Recordings in Hamburg from july 30th till august 2nd, 2018 All tracks mixed by Johannes Brecht at Studijo. Stuttgart, 2018
CO - Produced by Johannes Brecht
Mastered by Zino Mikorey, 2018
Design by Katrin Lillinger, Christian Lillinger
all compositions and concepts by Christian Lillinger (GEMA)
produced by PLAIST and Christian Lillinger
Coverart - picture by Katrin Lillinger
Ensemble portraits by Kai Ehlers
Production management by Susanne Ogan
Funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Musikfonds, Stiftung Bartels Foundation special thanks to Jürgen Wettig, Rainer Bartels
Christian Lillinger uses Meinl, Remo, Gretsch, Vic Firth

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is a label founded by Christian Lillinger.
It represents a genre-free, excellently produced and creatively structured art form – all manifested here as a music label.

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