Stemeseder & Lillinger – Antumbra I Penumbra

The baroque of the post-genre: Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder and German drummer Christian Lillinger have ingeniously intertwined analogue historical and electronic sounds in their album trilogy “Penumbra”, “Umbra” and “Antumbra”, named after various shadow states such as half or ring shadows. Stemeseder plays the spinet and at the same time a meandering web of electronic samples, noise surfaces and digital sound fragments, while Lillinger uses rhythms, some of which he alienates electronically: “We play with the signals and start to curate and collect them anew”. In doing so, they work with aesthetic concepts such as the serial division of notes into different dynamics. In this set, they play an intersection of their music from “Penumbra” and “Antumbra”. A laboratory situation that experiments with sonic density and feels its way forward. Interrupted by short interludes lasting just under a minute, the compositions develop into complex modular sound clusters.