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I've met Anja here in the Fediverse while talking about photographs taken out of the window of a driving train.
I cannot remember the details exactly but I'm quite sure @[email protected] also participated in the thread. As people come together in the Fediverse sometimes, not knowing each other at all but somehow appreciating each other.
And Anja told us she is sitting in the train with her accordion and her laptop preparing a concert (to be precise she was going to accomplish a silent b&w movie with her live music) in Munich later. And that got my curiosity:
A musician with accordion AND a laptop? I told her that I did see Hainbach operating a Hohner Electronium (basically a vacuum tube synth in the shape of an accordion from the 50s with an unbelievable fat bass sound) and if she is doing something like that (and this was more meant as a joke but still this immediately came to my mind). And imagine my surprise when she told me: Yes, something like that (!). She uses her accordion as MIDI controller but also as natural sound source for controlling her granular synthesis tools. And I was like WHAT!!! REALLY?!?! And I told her how much I like granular synthesis and she told me how much she misses Absynth (discontinued somewhere in the 2000s - a very mighty granular synth by NI). And I was like fire. What a bizarre and great idea: Using an accordion to trigger granular synthesis based music. And I wanted to know what it sounds like.
And you know what: It's top notch stuff from the niche of experimental contemporary classic. She is an worldwide appreciated composer/maker within this genre. Just read her bio in the linked URL. Why there is no Wikipedia entry about her is beyond me. Perhaps because she isn't male?
And I find it hard not to luv her art. @[email protected] - thanks for making such great great music (!) - for example…

Anja Kreysing: Infra
* https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=JYwktq3vXpo

Or a complete live album with (some of) her live movie scores
* https://euerzimmer.bandcamp.com/album/mise-en-lumiere

#music #WIM #WomenInMusic #FemaleWorldDomination #granularSynthesis #Accordion