The album's cover art is based on artwork by Jakob Gasteiger.
Instruments
Ensemble Proton Bern's musicians use a wide range of instruments, including rare ones like the lupophone, contraforte, stroh violin, and stroh cello, in addition to standard instruments and synthesizers.
Composer Biography
Bernhard Lang developed a "Loop-Generator" and "Visual Loop Generator" at the Institute for Electronic Music Graz with Winfried Ritsch and Thomas Musil.
Composer Biography
Bernhard Lang, the composer, studied jazz piano, arranging, and classical piano before pursuing composition, and also studied philosophy and German philology.
Performer Biography
Sarah Maria Sun is also an illustrator, author of children's books, and releases original songs with her band Titillating Tofu.
Performer Biography
Sarah Maria Sun, the soprano on this album, has a repertoire of over 2000 compositions, including 400 world premieres, and was nominated for Singer of the Year for her portrayals of complex female characters.
Compositional Technique
Bernhard Lang's piece "The Travel Agency is on Fire" uses cut-up experiments by William S. Burroughs, who created new word compositions by juxtaposing fragments from canonical writers.
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