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Line label has released ‘e-Menge’, the new instalment from the Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens on the 5th of March. The label will be also releasing the subsequent works in this series.

Line (12k) label has released ‘e-Menge’, the new instalment from the Mengen series
from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens on the 5th of
March. The label will be also releasing the subsequent works in this series.

Asmus Tietchens has created works since the late 60’s and first released his unique
electronic music in 1980. Since then he has produced about 30 more cutting edge
recordings on numerous international labels dealing with electronic sound and
concrete music. Other collaborative projects include the ongoing Kontakt der Jünglinge
with Thomas Köner. Tietchens’ focus is the manipulation of found sound in ways
suggested by the material itself. German label Die Stadt has begun to reissue
his groundbreaking early works on CD in limited edition. His latest critically
acclaimed project, a series based strictly on sine tones and white noise is the
“Mengen” series released by Ritornell/Mille Plateaux (Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Menge).

Tietchens said about this new work: “The four pieces of this recording represent
my aesthetic approach to space. Space not as in a “spacey” or astronomic sense,
but space as an extension of the three-dimensional region in which we exist. Caused
by acoustic foregrounds and acoustic backgrounds, spaces of different capacities
occur. In the early 20th century the fine arts began to abolished spatiality,
I wish to restore it by sound.”