Niehusmann - Fragrance

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FRAGRANCE

"Fragrance" is electronic music in 4 parts on 4 CDs. The 4 CDs can also be played simultaneously: with 2 or more stereo sets you can thereby listen to 2 or 3 or 4 parts of the composition in parallel. Precise simultaneousness is not necessarily required. Each part can mingle with an other part, as for example fluids or fragrances mingle with each other.

"Fragrance" is music, that corresponds in its structure with our perception of perfume. You can hardly say, where a fragrance "begins" or where it "ends". The starting and the final points are largely obscure: one hears extended passages of sounds symphonically assembled into one another. Their starting and final points can hardly be identified - there is only a "room", a "state", a "situation" which has a sometimes increasing, sometimes decreasing tendency.

An early version of "Fragrance" has been developed for an open-air sound-installation, which was presented 24 hours a day in a fragrance- and sound-garden on the premises of the closed coal-mine "Teutoburgia" in Herne/Germany from 1995-1997.

Press-reviews about Fragrance:

Frank Niehusmann - Fragrance
You've got four autonomous stereo sets at home? Four CD-players,four amplifiers, eight speakers? ... So we've got something for you: This box with 4 CD's ... What happens then if you play all 4 CD's asapproximately simultaneously as possible? Rising or dying away synthetical sounds overlap each other, a new, bizzare time-space feeling turns up. All this has been conceived by Frank Niehusmann, an experimental electronic-musician from Essen ... an unexpected surreal surround-sound event and a chance to re-define the term "ambient music". Try it out! You've done that already? So you will have certainly realized, that making experiments is not only great fun, but it also awfully addictive. Take good care of yourself!
(Albrecht Piltz, in: Keyboards-Magazine, Cologne, March 1999)

Tributes ...
... a piece of spheric-electronic-instrumental and ambient music a la Fripp and Eno, that you can appreciate endlessly ... composed for more or less parallel playing on four CD-Players ...
(P.E. Hillenbach, in: Marabo-Magazine, Bochum/Germany, January 1999)