TROPF THE COLLECTED RECORDINGS 2009-2019

by Simon Berz

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1.	ROMAINMÔTIER 2009 39:28	info	buy track
2.	CIMA NORMA 2019 38:24	info	buy track
3.	WETTINGEN SCHARTEN II 2019 (Part A) 20:00	info	buy track
4.	WETTINGEN SCHARTEN II 2019 (Part B) 19:48	info	buy track

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This release summarizes the collected recordings of Simone Berz' sound installation TROPF. In this work, the sound artist and experimental drummer make five stone slabs resonate through water droplets, thereby creating hypnotic polymetric structures that blend with the sound and resonance of the environment. Between 2009 and 2019, TROPF was realized and performed in various architectural and acoustic environments – sometimes purely mechanically, other times electronically amplified. The stages of this project encompass the Collegiate Church of the Romainmôtier Monastery, the former chocolate factory Cima Norma in the mountain village of Torre, as well as the abandoned water reservoir Scharten 2 in Wettingen. These three phases of 'TROPF' are accompanied by textual contributions from Efa Mühlethaler (sound artist, Zurich), Georg Werner (sound artist, Berlin), and Bernd Schurer (composer, Berlin).

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released August 25, 2023

All music composed and performed by Simon Berz.
Recorded between 2009 and 2019 by Willy Strehler and Simon Berz at Collegiate Church of the Romainmôtier Monastery (CH), Fondazione la Fabbrica del Cioccolato, Torre (CH) and Scharten 2, Wettingen (CH).
Mixed by Simon Berz and Willy Strehler.
Mastered by Willy Strehler at Klangdach Guntershausen, Switzerland.
Produced by Luc Döbereiner and Martin Lorenz.

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Simon Berz Berlin, Germany

Simon Berz, drummer and distorter, widely travelled between the raw and the transcendent, between the heartbeats of unbiased punk and the meditations of avantgarde jazz, between New Orleans and the Far East.

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