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Stranger

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Stranger: The Eye 05:50
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Roy Batty 05:45
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Rachel 02:07
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Leon 02:23
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Pris 02:56
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Deckard 03:00
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Stranger (ambient) 20:01
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No Man's Land - Cue 1: Boise City 03:13
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Cue 2: A hard place to love 03:36
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Cue 3: The first black duster 02:55
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Cue 4: The skies that brought no rain, only dirt 04:53
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Cue 5: Killing animals 02:43
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Cue 6: Ruth Nell 04:03
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Cue 7: Black sunday 01:40
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Cue 8: Hope 03:51

about

Stranger is inspired by Albert Camus' L’Étranger, Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep, the film Bladerunner and as always by L.E.J. Brouwer. Utilising a formalised process, the sounds were taken from one single source, processed at EMS Stockholm and put together at STEIM Amsterdam and Culture Lab Newcastle.

No Man's Land deals with the Dust Bowl period in the USA, particularly with the people who lived and stayed in the Oklahoma Panhandle. The film portrays the story of Hazel Lucas, who migrated to Boise City in Cimarron County as a child and lived through the worst hard times during this ecological and economical disaster. The story is adapted from the book 'The worst hard time' by Timothy Egan. Most of the sounds on the soundtrack are produced in the CEM studio at WORM Rotterdam with the ARP 2500 and Korg MS-20 synthesizers and a Synton stereo EQ.

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"In this new release on the Portuguese imprint after the excellent Fury, Robert Van Heumen - who normally utilises a laptop provided with LiSa and SuperCollider software (live sampling and real-time audio synthesis respectively) - concocted a string of soundscapes that leave no room for optimism, showing the nude crudity of past and present events without hinting for a minute to concepts like "respite" or "hope". Unquestionably not a record one wishes to return to on a daily basis, Stranger in any case represents an intriguing chapter in the output of a hardly pigeon-hole-able emerging sound artist. There's more than meets the ears, though it takes persistence to find the combination needed to enter this obscure area, halfway through the remnants of excruciating memories and the blurred idea of an uncertain future."
Massimo Ricci, The Squid's Ear

credits

released May 1, 2009

Music and artwork by Robert van Heumen.
Photographs courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Thanks to STEIM, EMS, Culture Lab and WORM/CEM.
Special thanks to Mirjam for unlimited support.

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vanhuman Hilversum, Netherlands

Robert van Heumen is a composer and improvising musician using an extended laptop-instrument to perform highly immersive and hyper-dynamic electro-acoustic music. As a musician, live sampling is his main tool. With a joystick and other tactile controllers, live sampled source sounds are gesturally manipulated and reworked within open ended narratives. ... more

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