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Stemeseder Lillinger

Collaborating in the borderlands between minimalistic murmurs and maximal (dis-)harmonic reverberations, composer-performers Elias Stemeseder and Christian Lillinger create electro-acoustic assemblages of drone, noise, melody, and synthesis. Malfunction and disorder coalesce in their compositions for piano, harpsichord, and synthesisers (Stemeseder), and drums, percussion, and electronics (Lillinger). As a duo, Stemeseder and Lillinger wield a purely chaotic form of composition which draws from disparate and broad elements such as sample culture, serialism, and folk music. While their influences lie at different ends of music's sonic spectrum, there is a coherent binding principle of playful avant-garde experimentation in their performances and compositions alike. At times their music sounds like grounded, utopic, earthly free jazz, while at others, it sounds like a cosmic transmission of an alien language yet to be deciphered.