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ERIK FRIEDLANDER AND
TEHO TEARDO: giorni rubati
[Bleep 34]
In 2004 Italian electronics composer Teho
Teardo and New York cellist Erik Friedlander began a trans- Atlantic
collaboration, exchanging ideas, creating and remixing each other's
contributions. They discovered a rapport that superseded their different
backgrounds. The classically trained cellist now Downtown improviser
and former electro punk now cutting edge film composer found they
shared a drive to create emotionally charged, passionate music.
Their first efforts, Munifried, was integral in Teardo's soundtrack
for "Lavorare Con Lentezza", a film by Guido Chiesa who
loved the track and purchased the rights for his film. Then, in
the summer of 2005, Teho visited New York City and brought with
him 2 bottles of red wine and an idea for a project: a book of poems
by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian director and writer who was
murdered in 1975. Friedlander recorded 8 responses to the poems:
some were single track cello improvisations, others were more complicated,
multi-tracked productions which he sent to Teho in Italy. Teardo
recomposed the tracks by mixing layers of elegant electronica, piano,
and guitar with the stark acoustic cello. In between scoring projects,
touring, and making CD's the two musicians found time to work together
on their collaboration. They completed Giorni Rubati in early 2006
and, as a special addition included two live tracks, one from The
Knitting Factory in New York, and the other from Prodenone, Italy--taken
from a concert celebrating the 30 year anniversary of Pasolini's
death.
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Teho Teardo is an electronic composer and a sound designer. In 2004
he composed the soundtrack for Guido Chiesa's "Lavorare con
lentezza" that premiered at the Venice Film Festival and created
a sound installation for Hic et Nunc, the contemporary art festival
in Pordenone, Italy. He has remixed tracks for Placebo, Girls Against
Boys, Cop Shoot Cop, Lydia Lunch, Rothko and curated the 12"
serial named Domestic Landscapes for Nail Records. His elegant style
and savvy use of earthy analogue electronics is mixed with a sure
knowledge of acoustic instruments. In addition to creating the soundtrack
for A Page of Madness a Japanese silent film that debuted at "Le
Giornate del Cinema Muto" festival in 2001; and Il Fuggiasco,
a 2003 movie by Andrea Manni. Teho has started the bands Meathead,
MATERA (with Mick Harris), HERE (with Jim Filer Coleman), OPERATOR
(with Scott Mccloud/GVSB) and MODERN INSTITUTE whose debut album
has just been released by english label Expanding Records. Teho
has realized several soundtracks, the last one for the new movie
by Paolo Sorrentino premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
"Erik Friedlander can do things with a cello that should have
a reasonable listener fearing for her life," says PitchforkMedia.com,"Rostropovich
one second and Rottweiler the next." A virtuosic veteran of
NYC's downtown scene, Friedlander has backed John Zorn, Laurie Anderson
and Courtney Love. New York's Erik Friedlander is a unique cellist
whose work blurs genre borders. He is a composer and an improviser,
a classical musician and a jazzbo. The LA Times put it best when
they wrote, "Friedlander's performance clearly positions him
as the first potential star performer on his instrument." Erik
grew up in a home filled with art and music. He is the son of Lee
Friedlander, an art photographer known by musicians and jazz aficionados
for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records. His passion
for r&b and jazz greatly influenced Erik, whose earliest memories
are of a household filled with the sounds of his father's subjects--Ray
Charles, Aretha Franklin, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and John
Coltrane. Erik started playing guitar at age 6 and added cello two
years later.
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