Grischa Lichtenberger preps debut album for Raster Noton

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  • Entitled And IV (Inertia), the German artist's next LP is due out on October 1st.
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  • German multimedia artist Grischa Lichtenberger is ready to release his debut album for Berlin avant-garde institution Raster-Noton. The name of the record is And IV [Inertia], which reflects Lichtenberger's cerebral approach to making records. His first appearance on Raster Noton was Treibgut, a glitchy EP that formed part of a collection of works (including installations, videos and paintings) inspired by the River Rhine. The new LP is an equally lofty meditation on a setting—in this case, Berlin. He explains it this way: "The title And IV (Inertia) refers to a fictionalized successor of the Baksan neutrino telescope in the Caucasus region. At first, it has been an idea for a novel, based on the consideration that it is impossible to deal with the topic of a lebensraum like Berlin without being hit by stylization—so I had to experiment with strategies of fiction." More succinctly, he says the goal of both releases was "to define aspects of legitimation for an artistic work in engagement with the concreteness of one’s living situation." And IV [Inertia] uses finely processed field recordings of the artist's environment as source material, paired with "digital sound data" and sculpted into lurching beats and glitchy textures. It's due out on October 1st. Tracklist 01. 1011_11_ss1 02. 1110_01_lv _1b 03. 0811_09_re_0211_08 04. 1210_08_4+ 05. UU78 06. 0112_01_st_rm 07. 1011_27_#5b 08. 0811_11_re_0411_08_mas_rm3 09. rearr_re 10. 0611_29_1b 11. 1011_22_lv_1b 12. 12_11_13_lv_1_c 13. 0311_01 re 0510_24 14. 0811_09 re 0611_29_lv_1b 15. 1011_11104_v_re_61011s1b 16. 66 audio 17. globalbpm 18. 0111_05_z red 19 91028_v1 20. sysolrot 21. ssfl Raster-Noton will release And IV (Inertia) on October 1st, 2012.
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