UNSTRINGING BEETHOVEN

1 String Quartet  op. 131 - Allegro Moderato   2:07
2 String Quartet  op. 130 - Presto  2:53
3 String Quartet  op. 131 - Presto 5:05
4 Serenate for String Trio  op. 8 - Adagio      1:46
5 String Trio  op. 9  no. 1 - Adagio, Allegro con brio 4:09 
6 String Trio  op.9  no. 1 - Scherzo: Allegro  3:24
7 String Quartet  op. 131 - Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo 2:15
8 String Quartet  op. 59  no. 3  'Razumovsky' - Allegro molto 4:18
9 String Quartet  op. 135 - Allegretto  3:33
10 String Quintet  op. 4 - Presto 3:28

 

This selection of Beethoven's movements from string quartets, trios, and quintets has been processed in studio through a (mostly physical) sound manipulation technique serendipitously found by John Noise Manis. Starting from existing recordings, the audio material gets shredded, stuttered, and then recomposed (no MIDI) with some use of spectral transformation.

 

 

 

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