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fleeger
Acousmatic / Tape music / Electroacoustic / Live Electronics

"Memory solves infinite timbre. "

SAN FRANCISCO, California
United States

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   fleeger: General Info
Member Since11/12/2005
Band Websiteacousmatic.com
Band MembersCharles Engstrom, Christopher Fleeger
InfluencesNatasha Barrett, Francis Dhomont, R. Murray Schafer, Pierre Schaffer, Bob Ostertag, Joan Jeanrenaud, Karlheinz Essl, Trevor Wishart, Barry Truax, Pete Stollery, Cort Lippe, Akira Rabelais
Record LabelPing Records
Type of LabelIndie



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12 Computer Music Inventions by Charles Engstrom and Christopher Fleeger
(a piece is a note is a piece-- elephants all the way down)

Theory runs thick in computer music. Come to think of it, a brisk commerce in signal is a symptom of noisy neighborhoods in general. This is understandable enough. How many other reasonably honest choices are there when confronted with an experience shortage? The whole computing machine dance up until now has been so short-- like a baby accumulating half-truths. Well, if the commonweal's experience-cupboard is bare, then fill it. Should be a perfect playground for fools.

Our doing this surely must have been kicked along both by the dissatisfaction with sleepwalking and by some growing appreciation of the edge as panacea. But our simplest and least obscure motive has probably been curiosity about how musical performance works when it is done on computing machines. When the timbre space goes infinite and has a memory, how do you go about assembling a meaningful piece of time for some particular group of people at some particular place?

The relative scarcity of cliche (both social and musical) in computer music creates this situation where a framework for listening somehow needs to be generated at the same time as it is filled with sound-- context and content made more or less simultaneously. There is this beautiful similarity to the historical interplay between worldly conundrums and abstract mathematics. It has been more than interesting to notice that this interplay turns out to be sampling in disguise.

The ambit of all this is really the same one music has always had: to set up a situation where the air shakes in a certain way and begins to give off inevitability outside of human language.

We use a couple of powerbooks, some controllers, a black box or two, an amplifier and some speakers.

Loud? No, it's not all that loud.

In other lives Engstrom is a film-music composer; Fleeger a sound designer. They have been knocking out theories on mass transit since the turn of the century and performing together since fall of 2001.

Recordings are available from amazon.com and emf.org / cdemusic.org.

Barpieces are audio scores of twelve computer music inventions worked out by Charles Engstrom and Christopher Fleeger in live performances around North Florida from 2001 to 2004.

Ideas about gathering places as social and sonic resonators group this material. More narrowly, the focus became computer music performances which could maintain some revelatory utility in the hurly-burly of ordinary public listening-- in a barroom, for instance. The resulting pieces are formally simple, relatively short in duration, and try to maintain distinct timbral surfaces.

Methods include the gas laws, lissajous curves, set transformations and fourier harmonizations of the ambience in performance spaces. The sonics range from simple synthetic waveforms, excited glass, wood and metal to slot machines, washers and other timbral pointers to the everyday world of the early 21st century.


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Bryan Lewis Saunders





Jul 22 2008 7:28 AM

TOETEM/TOTEM
Bryan Lewis Saunders





Jul 13 2008 3:06 AM

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERY SINGLE THING CHRISTOPHER ! YOU ARE AWESOME !



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May 2 2008 9:47 PM

thx for the add !
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May 13 2008 7:21 AM

have a nice day.greetings from greece.
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May 9 2008 7:25 PM

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Jan 6 2008 2:58 AM

roommates?
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Dec 22 2007 11:31 PM


Now, ya'll really just got the good stuff here! and I am glad to be your friend.

And, just in case you need some more...
The new release from Jim Crozier with help from his wonderful friends is now out!

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Oct 15 2007 9:09 AM

happy barf day
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Oct 13 2007 4:01 AM

i fell asleep listening to your page. was i dreaming wait am i typeing waiitls dhsuieoming
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Aug 28 2007 2:07 AM

i will rhyme it tomorrow at Andre's night ; )

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Aug 21 2007 7:26 PM

Each moment brings me closer to deciding to use "cement truck but instead of cement, babies" as the name. Each moment.
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Aug 17 2007 7:22 AM

yoyoyyoyoyoyoyoyoyo sockchair wheatgrass engstrom sockchair

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this is just unSANITARY.
The Jim Crozier Band





Aug 16 2007 10:42 PM

Chris

So glad that you found my "other" space.

I have been enjoying getting to know some of your friends here.

To art! To Music!

To the Muse....

jc
Jim Crozier





Aug 13 2007 9:55 PM

Chris

So glad to hook back up with you here.

I do really dig this stuff.

jc
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Aug 7 2007 4:16 PM

Munich is listening. Come down south and lets have a beer at the hirschgarten biergarten.
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Jun 13 2007 6:26 AM

making me happy and voming on my face.
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May 17 2007 10:08 PM

vomitron break dancers unite!
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May 1 2007 6:37 PM

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Mar 26 2007 1:48 AM

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Mar 17 2007 4:53 PM

making live improvised electronic music for you...

cool sounds man. keep the electrons movin'.
ALEXICO





Mar 17 2007 3:30 PM

heyyy
thnks for the add man
nice stuff well i think is nice callme stuid man but i neverd heard a thing like yours
some dude just showed tome hiperrealistic music and i thoug it the closest thing to your music but i stillbelive i havent heard nothing like yours and thats good dont you think
Starr Ackerman





Mar 17 2007 2:13 AM

wierd as in an abstract killer tulip.
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Mar 16 2007 4:53 PM

i hear all these in my dreams
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Mar 16 2007 3:49 PM

Empty room with psychedelic posters and surround sound!
onlyone





Mar 16 2007 1:48 PM

all the best from boston! great stuff!
xicana machete





Mar 16 2007 5:26 AM

Great stuff Fleeger,
Thanks for finding us among the 14yr olds.
xm
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Mar 16 2007 3:19 AM

Great stuff!
The Perennial Philosophy





Mar 16 2007 2:26 AM

i'd really like to see more hear more and know more...
any live performances coming up... concepts and sounds have definitely peaked my curiosity.
thanks!!
cikee
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Mar 16 2007 2:13 AM

I like the cut of your jib
Victor





Mar 16 2007 1:55 AM

Wonderful. Marvelous sounds. Great space. Thanks for the add!

V.
Electrifee





Mar 14 2007 10:59 AM

interesting work
i like the sounds within
many thanks for add

all the best from Dublin

Electrifee
the pandas





Mar 14 2007 6:03 AM

viva fleeger !
wiracki





Mar 13 2007 7:10 PM

nice works!
thanks for the add!
tom
cup na cup©





Mar 12 2007 10:47 PM

i like.
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Mar 12 2007 10:32 PM

feeling it
Ethan





Mar 12 2007 12:55 AM

Thanks for stealing our only friend. I hope you're happy now.
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Mar 10 2007 8:32 PM

i have no idea what you're yabbering on about - concentration levels at all time low this weekend... like the music though. respect
dunney





Mar 6 2007 6:38 PM

Thanks for the invite.... what a cool enviroment. wonderful soundscapes.
Hearty