strøm:
1st water, which flows into a direction (more or less quick); such a movement:
a river, a strait with a strong current / cold and warm flows in the sea / floated
by the river / follow the trend: to act like everybody else / against the trend,
to turn atound the trend; proverb: være somn kjerringa mot strømmen:
its like the woman against the current = to be willful, obstinate.
2. flowing mixes, current: a light-current; the blood flowed, the wine flowed
into strong flows; a current of contributions, impressions, refugees, tourists.
3. electricity, particularly in lines.
or
strøm are a group of about two musicians, approximately 60 cables
of audio, a bunch of stompboxes, the reverent dr. sherman, three oscillators
aka i, a bass clarinet... is improvised and an idea of ambiguous clusters of
sound, are many, extremely busy electrons, is a soundtrack to a sci-fi movie
never watched or a stirred cocktail on the rocks, mixed with 2/3 of avant-garde
classic and 1/3 of experimental rock, garnished with a pinch of purple pop-roar,
is a weltanschauung coming from the surroundings of the mysterious cult of yagwud
or a thunderstorm of sound made of hypothermic electronic bubble and dinosaur-sized
melodies of hoovers, is seldom sexy, quite often erotic, is a problem of drums
less, is seldom KO'd in the fifth round, has a brumm once in a while, is maybe
more likely gossip or a trip to the dark galaxy of electronic sound, works at
220V, or also with 1.5‰, is
the orchestral brother of dupont & dupond, has no reverse gear, overcomes
sudden falls of frequency lightly as well as chaotic gatherings of overtones,
seldom dresses as the taliban, is the most quiet band when practicing (at least
on this side of the alps), is a musical meal with several courses, including
a surprise desert flambé and an architectonic magical trick, is mostly
a modular system, has a g4 and a g3 processor...
gaudenz badrutt, pianist and electronic musician (*1972) and christian müller (1971), clarinetist and electronic musician. both studied at the university of music and performing arts berne/biel. under the name of strøm the two artists from biel mix various ingredients: electro-acoustic improvisation with conceptual music, contemporary music ideas with free jazz explosions, down to earth, drifty energy with spheric sound. under stage director barbara-david brüesch strøm produced a variety of theater music (e.g. for the stadttheater berne or the staatstheater stuttgart), played in rock cellars, at art openings, in the scope of installationary open-air concerts and with various musicians, such as hans koch, martin schütz, ernst thoma, urs leimgruber and jacques demierre. in 2004, the band won the first prize at the concours de reding (a competition for improvisation of the swiss association of musicians / schweizerischer tonkünstlerverein). they spent half a year working on the lofoten islands in 2006.
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