Glim - Tape
Vienna based musician and composer Andreas Berger a.k.a. Glim is back with a new album released on Room40. He studied Computer Music and Electronic Media at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Since the early 2000s he has published a number of compositions for theatre, performance and films. As Glim, he has released two records: “Music for Field Recordings” (2003) and “Aerial View of Model” (2006). He is also a founding member of the performance collective Liquid Loft and a part of the audio-visual project glimgrill (together with filmmaker and video artist Michaela Grill). Since 1997 he is a member of the band Le Charmant Rouge.
His work received awards at the theatre festival Kontrapunkt and at the International Shortfilm Festival Hamburg and together with Liquid Loft the golden lion at Biennale in Venice .
His new album brings the charm and beauty of the tape hiss transported and elevated to a level that I haven't heard in a little while. It creates subtle layers that have both a unique congruence with each other. It is definitely a sort of ambient music but with a human touch, a cinematic feel.
Tape is a reference to something which is both lost and has been evoked as a hypnagogic dream machine. It has never been out of date since as a medium - cassette tape can be used in so many ways.
It is a self-contained space that Andreas carefully prepared in a way that has a nice compromise between more experimental approach and something that can be an easy-listening in a most positive of ways.
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