Silencio, by Moritz von Oswald

Silencio

by Moritz von Oswald

supported by

poladroïd What a beauty... Techno meets Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich & Hildegard von Bingen.

5 stars.

more...

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€11 EUR or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
- jewel case
- artwork by Cyprien Gaillard

Includes unlimited streaming of Silencio via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 3 days

Purchasable with gift card

€11 EUR or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
- 2 x 180g heavy weight vinyl
- full printed sleeve
- artwork by Cyprien Gaillard
- incl. download code

Includes unlimited streaming of Silencio via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 3 days

Purchasable with gift card

€27.50 EUR

1.	Silencio 12:33	buy track
2.	Luminoso 08:49	buy track
3.	Librarsi 03:00	buy track
4.	Infinito 06:16	buy track
5.	Colpo 04:49	buy track
6.	Volta (Version) 04:01	buy track
7.	Infinito (Version) 06:24 video	buy track
8.	Luminoso (Version) 04:48	buy track
9.	Volta 05:47	buy track
10.	Opaco 08:55	buy track
11.	Opaco (Version) 01:54	buy track

about

What are the differences and similarities between human and artificial sound, between oscillations generated by vocal cords and synthesizer voices, voltage amplified by speakers? On Silencio, his latest album for Tresor Records, Moritz von Oswald works with a 16-voice choir to explore this concept.

Drawing from the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, von Oswald and Vocalconsort Berlin delve into the space between sounds, creating a deeply textured collection that shifts between light & ethereal and dark & dissonant.

As masterfully demonstrated in the early work of von Oswald and Mark Ernestus’ influential Basic Channel project, repetition and reduction are key elements here, much in the tradition of techno and minimalism. The vast dynamism of the human voice adds to the profound weight of electronics while offering up a rhythmic source and sonic noise palette unexplored in von Oswald’s repertoire. In Silencio, von Oswald dredges a dank murk, pulling clouds over a distant pulse. It hangs, ready to take on new forms.

The compositions were written in von Oswald’s Berlin studio on classic synthesizers, such as the EMS VCS3 & AKS, Prophet V, Oberheim 4-Voice and the Moog Model 15. These abstract recordings were transcribed to sheet music for choir by Berlin-based Finnish composer and pianist, Jarkko Riihimäki and performed by Vocalconsort Berlin in Ölberg church in the city’s Kreuzberg district, only few metres down the road from where Dubplates & Mastering and Hard Wax opened their doors for music enthusiasts for many years so long.

The recordings of the choral versions were then incorporated into the synthesized parts of the album and brought into anew electronic context; in Silencio, the focus is not on using one means to imitate the other, but to sonically discuss the tensions and harmonies between the two worlds and create a dialogue between them.

The relationship between von Oswald and Tresor Records goes back thirty years, all the way to Blake Baxter’s Dream Sequence in 1991 - which von Oswald engineered alongside Thomas Fehlmann. The collaboration with Fehlmann lived on, seeing the duo team up as 3MB with Eddie Fowlkes or Juan Atkins. More recently, the Detroit-Berlin connection continued as Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present Borderland.

For von Oswald, Tresor Records and also the participating guest musicians of the choir, this release brings together audiences from other musical areas, cross-pollinating; Silencio is an album that stands for itself beyond the musical genre boundaries.

credits

released November 10, 2023

All tracks written & produced by Moritz von Oswald.
Choir & Vocals performed by Vocalconsort Berlin.
Transcription & conducting by Jarkko Riihimäki.
Choir & Vocals recorded by Carlo Grippa & Anne Taegert.
Mixed by Marlon Beatt & Moritz von Oswald.
Studio assistance by Marlon Beatt & Nicolai Rohrer.
Artwork by Cyprien Gaillard.
Layout by Yvonne Quirmbach.
Artwork coordination by Max Paul.
Published by Oswald Music / Decca.

(P)&(C) 2023 Tresor Records GmbH
Tresor Records
www.tresorberlin.com

license

about

Tresor Records Berlin, Germany

When Tresor opened on March 13th 1991 in a shack on Potsdamer Platz, beneath which the vault of the Wertheim department store lay, no one would have thought that from there would arise an institution that one day would celebrate 33 years of existence.

tresorberlin.com

discography

Love Letter

Jun 2024
030313

May 2024
Angles

May 2024
Transport

May 2024

more releases...

contact / help

Contact Tresor Records

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Silencio, you may also like:

Promises
by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra

supported by 62 fans who also own “Silencio”

hypnotic and incredibly moving marsplutomusic
go to album
ANTIDAWN EP
by Burial

supported by 59 fans who also own “Silencio”

Burial fully realises the ambient aspects of his work that he has been leaning towards over the past few years. Whether you like it or not, you can't deny that this is undeniably Burial. Kutkh_Jackdaw
go to album
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker

supported by 51 fans who also own “Silencio”

Actually astounding and emotionally moving, creating a community that I have been proudly a part of for 2 years OrsonXD
go to album
The Cloud Machine
by Andrew Heath

Inspired by the simple innocence of his own childhood, Andrew Heath composes soothing drones, rich in texture. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 22, 2024
go to album
touched by an angel
by Klein

featured on Bandcamp Radio Apr 9, 2024
go to album
Sti.ll
by Taylor Deupree

Composer, artist, and 12k label founder Taylor Deupree collaborates with Joseph Branciforte to reimagine his own seminal album. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 6, 2024
go to album
Crash Recoil
by Surgeon

supported by 47 fans who also own “Silencio”

The bit 2 min into Subcultures like what the fuck SHANX
go to album