Pixel

From my years as a jazz saxophone player I work quite freely with improvisation, since
this is a key thing in jazz music. I prefer a lyrical melodic language which mainly comes
from west-coast jazz musicians such as Lee Konitz, Stan Getz etc., with their almost
dusty subtle soothing way of playing.
This I combine with my great interest for konnakol - an ancient indian rhythm system.
With konnakol I create rhythms that accentuates different beats than the usual 1-2-3-4.
This extra layer give the rhythms on the surface a new meaning and more elasticity and
swing to the music.
I like to use complex polyrhythmical structures in my music - but without making it
sound complex. I create an underlying layer for the listener to be whirled around and
surprised by, and to dive into. My music works fine without paying attention to this extra
layer, but my intension is to lure the listener further into the music without him or her
noticing it. Like the calling of a siren song.

REVIEWS:

DE:BUG February ´04:
“Es ist schon erstaunlich mit welcher Konsequenz Raster Noton Platten
rausbringt die einen Sound haben den man immer sofort als Raster Noton
erkennt, der aber nicht nur nie langweilt, sondern bei aller Perfektion in den
reduzierten Klängen, Clicks, Wellen und was sonst noch eine Raster Platte
ausmacht, dann auch noch so warm bleibt, so nahbar, dass man sie einfach mögen
muss. Sechs Tracks reduziert digitalen Funks, pulsierender Bleeps und heimlich
kratzender Jazzästhetik, die man wie immer am besten so laut hört, dass die
Scheiben mitwackeln. Gross”.

WILL MONTGOMERY-The Wire February ´04
...At times the album is a like a refinement of the brilliant rhythmic intensity in such
essential Raster releases as Nicolai and Ryoji Ikeda’s Cyclo, and Ilpo Vaisainen’s pair of
Kangaroo 10” singles...Pixel doesn’t allow a bar to pass without working some kind of
repetition.
...It’s extraordinarily simple, yet the variation in the bass drums allows the kind of surprising
shifts in accent induced by, say, drummer Max Roach’s bombdrops.
...”Auslaufrille I” marshalls impressive clusters of crackle, and “Hardcore” combines Pan
Sonic-like postindustrial roughness with rippling textures. For his debut album Pixel
pulls of the trick of absorbing some of the most powerful vocabularies in minimal electronica
- almost classical vocabularies by this stage - and reconfiguring them for his own
carefully gauged needs.