The Aporias of Futurism is the collaborative double album between Andreas Gerth (one half of Driftmachine) and Carl Oesterhelt (Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer). It is out now via Umor Rex. According to the press release, This double album represents a new collaboration between long-time Umor Rex artists Andreas Gerth (one half of Driftmachine) and Carl Oesterhelt (Eleven Pieces for Synthesizer). Both developed their shared musical cosmos while playing together in the Tied+Tickled Trio. Oesterhelt is also known for his solo compositions for orchestras and for his collaboration with Johannes Enders and Hans-Joachim Irmler of Faust. Available in 2 x Vinyl LP in gatefold jackets and digital.
Since its beginnings, a kind of Futurism has been inherent in Electronic Music through its link with technological progress, with the notion that all progress will always come to fruition… Therefore, to look at the genre with a historical stance, as this album does, is a fresh, contradictory and critical position that stands against mass culture and global conformity.
“The Aporias of Futurism” attempts to define a momentous place, with coordinates and points of reference, within electronic experimental music.
Andreas and Carl’s working method for the album was the usual musique concrète technique: cutting/assembling/editing/processing pre-recorded sounds ––but instead of deconstructing the concrete noises into an abstract sound entity, they took a different approach: organically interweaving orchestral structures with the electronically processed noise layers to create a composition in the spirit of classic Modernism from the beginning of the 20th century.
Listen below.