Airsculpture

Artists: Airsculpture & Free System Projekt
P: 2001
Recorded live at Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia USA from April 20 till 24, 2001.
The musicians are:
Marcel Engels (Free System Projekt)
John Christian and Peter Ruczynski (Air Sculpture)
Dave Brewer and Bill Fox.

All tracks composed by Brewer, Christan, Engels, Fox & Ruczynski except tracks 2 and 4 by Brewer, Engels & Fox.

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 1996
Berlin School Live sequencing. These are recordings from sessions.
Tracks 1 & 2 recorded at the Reading Alleycat, 25th Oct. 1995.
Tracks 3 & 6 recorded at the Reading Alleycat, 14th Oct. 1995.
Tracks 4, 5, 7 & 8 recorded at the Running Frog, 2nd March 1996.

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 1996
Berlin School Live sequencing. These are recordings from sessions.
Tracks 1 & 2 recorded at the Reading Alleycat, 25th Oct. 1995.
Tracks 3 & 6 recorded at the Reading Alleycat, 14th Oct. 1995.
Tracks 4, 5, 7 & 8 recorded at the Running Frog, 2nd March 1996.

Here the last copy of the manufactured CD!

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 2006
LTD 300
Recorded live as part of the Ricochet Gathering at Castillo Del Mar, Vallehermoso, La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain on October 14, 2005.
Limited Edition distributed at AirSculpture's November 18, 2005 concert at The Gathering at St. Mary's Church Philadelphia, USA.

Here the last copy!

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 2008
Burn is a recording of the Hampshire Jam 2 concert, which has been demanded as a release pretty much since the last notes faded.
Burn is massively powerful, slowly building from a deep dark ambience up to a huge sequencer-driven frenzy. Sound sources ranging from real analogue modular synths and mellotron to up to the minute digital instruments. These are used to craft a soundscape that blends classic sequences with driving rhythms underpinning AirSculpture's distinctive melodic flourishes.
 

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 2001
This CD contains the entire improvised performance of AirSculpture's first Dutch concert at the 4th Alfa-Centauri festival in Huizen, March 1, 1997. Inlay states 5 parts missing the sixth. Tracks on CD recorded in different order than performed.

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 2001
The Live concert in Sweden, organized by Winfried Trenkler from Schwingungen. Berlin School Sequencermusic live at its best.
 

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 2014
So what is the present but an outgrowth of the past? The early work of Tangerine Dream is often cited as establishing the "Berlin-School".
They explored a new territory, which left a path. Decades later we find the UK synth trio AirSculpture fully invested in musical endeavors meant to advance the ideals established during this golden age of synthesizer and sequencer Spacemusic.
Graveyard Shift (64'15"), the product of their STAR'S END live to air studio session of 19 November 2006, feels like a less urgent/more tech savy re-imagining of the TD classic Ricochet (1975).
This style speaks to us as no other form can. It is a music sensitive to its own era, as we are not listening "to" something, but listening "for" something. It expresses a mood, an atmosphere, a tone in a numberless variety of subtle shadings and differences.
Graveyard Shift includes two tracks, the more focused and compact "Argent Engine" (10'32"). This ten minute sequencer piece charges through space like a starship whooshing past solar systems, while the title track expands slowly over three sections and 50 minutes at a more deliberate pace.
Beginning in an amorphous texture this piece fills space with dense sound forms. Drifting, rolling drones and chords form a current of sound - out of which patterns of tones echo and advance so very slowly. As these electronic droplets gradually move outward and fill in the empty slots and skips the pulse of this track quickens, growing our anticipation. "Graveyard Shift" (53'41") sustains an interesting energy throughout its run, never peaking, but never running out of fuel. Chords mix with lead melody lines as synthesizers rush and then wait in service to a most interesting compositional contour - facilitated by the late-night hour of this recording session and the objective of producing a sustained listening space for all the folks out there in radioland. In the third movement the sonic content starts to melt as metallic muted ringing and modulated effects bring us to an unusual zone of timbre experiments and a darkening chill.
Music is an art that exists in point of time. Its events are abstract in nature, and pulling them all together in the imagination is difficult for the audience. Added value comes when listening to Graveyard Shift for more than the sheer pleasure, more than the potent and primitive force, of sound itself. This music has an expressive power and a meaning behind the notes - which as listeners is our purpose to feel.
Chuck van Zyl

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 1995
Here one of the early Berlin School sequencer retro CDs. This is orientated at the TD releases of the 70s.

 

Artists: Airsculpture
P: 2001
Live sequencing at E-Live Festival and Jodrell Bank Planetarium England. The sequences blend into each other on a perfact base and it is beautiful to listen to it and enjoy.