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homage 1 06:48
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homage 2 02:47
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homage 3 01:31
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homage 4 01:28
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homage 5 01:33
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homage 7 04:32
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homage 9 05:24
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about

In 'Interaction of Colors' Albers writes about the interaction of colors, what happens between colors, and about the discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect.

Color is interpreted here in a rhythmic sense. After recording the drumparts, Dirk contacted two musician friends and let them add their interpretation of Albers' work on top of the drumparts.

Homage to Josef Albers, modest as it may be, a tribute to this great artist. To end with Albers' words : "To honor the masters creatively is to compete with attitude rather than with their results, to follow an artistic understanding of tradition - that is, to create, not to revive." (1)

Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) was born in Germany. He was a painter, designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker and poet, and member of the Bauhaus movement. He is most famous for the series, Homage to the Square. Hundreds of paintings make up this series, each painting consisting of either three or four squares of solid planes of color nested in one another.

(1) Josef Albers - Interaction of Colors - 1963, ninth printing 1978, page 52

There is a continuation of this work:
alecilyine.bandcamp.com/album/homage-to-josef-albers-improvisations

credits

released December 7, 2017

dirk wachtelaer : drums
alec ilyine : guitar (1 - 7)
stefan coltura : violin (8 - 13)

homage 1 - 7 : drums recorded by alec ilyine at fly studio, brussels
homage 8 - 13 : drums recorded by jan weynants at jan's place, mechelen

all drumparts were recorded in one take, no edits, overdub nor programming - or it wouldn't be any challenge, no ?

violin recorded at stef's place, mechelen, overdubs were used extensively, no electronics

guitar recorded at fly studio, brussels
www.flymusic.studio

photo by indi wave, based on the homage to the square series by josef albers

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Expressing himself mostly through moving strings, sometimes electric with blazing FX, sometimes acoustic on 6 and 12 string guitar, charango and ud.
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