Hannes Kretzer has been searching for sounds that mirror his perspective on the world - and he’s done just that. The German composer has spent his musical career distorting and shaping sounds to fit in his sonic universe. He merges these musical ideas with his love of pop culture in order to create unique and intriguing concepts.
His latest offering comes in the form of E.P “Species.” The E.P uses juxtaposition of sound and changing dynamics to sonically pull listeners in. From stripped-back moments to anthemic instrumentals, the E.P will be sure to take you on a musical journey.
Speaking about the release, he says: “It’s been five years since my last album. I wanted to merge the experiences I had gained before in my new material. This time approaching "picture music" in a different way. Usually influenced by landscape, I was now forming creatures out of the environment. I wanted to make them very concrete and tangible, musically describing the evolving structures of living beings while maintaining the depth of sound and production.
I had the intention to play with the perception of space, bending our sense of the room we experience the sound in. My main source of reverberation for this album is a 40" symphonic gong which I prepared with a transducer to be able to excite it with synths. -> surreal, contrasting rooms through one single object. We usually are able to roughly determine room size/dimensions through its reverberations. With running the tracks through the gong your mind plays tricks on you. Frequencies get stuck and amplified, seemingly going on forever, while others aren't picked up that well and convey the impression of a small cave.”
We cannot wait to see where he’ll take this.
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