{"id":1621,"date":"2017-10-31T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2023-12-10T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T04:50:05","slug":"fraufraulein-in-hibias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2017\/10\/fraufraulein-in-hibias\/","title":{"rendered":"fraufraulein in HiBias!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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super happy to be included in the October ’17 edition of Marc Masters’ great HiBias column for Bandcamp, talking about heavy objects<\/em>, living with music, being a family…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/2017\/10\/31\/hi-bias-october-2017\/<\/p>\n

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As fraufraulein, the New York-based duo of Andy Guthrie and Billy Gomberg make music that feels telepathic, as if their minds merge into one whenever tape is rolling. \u201cWe have developed the ability to fall into an almost-trance within a few minutes of playing together,\u201d says Guthrie, \u201csometimes slowing to the point of almost stopping completely.\u201d \u201cWe decided on a \u2018band name\u2019 because we didn\u2019t feel that what we were doing was really two musicians doing separate things together,\u201d adds Gomberg, \u201cbut more like two musicians working on the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

One obvious way to explain the duo\u2019s creative synergy is the fact that Guthrie and Gomberg are married. \u201cWe make very personal music, because this work is something we have loved to do together,\u201d insists Gomberg. But even more importantly, each has made a wealth of fascinating solo music, developing individual sonic languages that are well-suited for dialogue. \u201cSometimes we suck at talking, as a lot of people do,\u201d Guthrie admits. \u201cOften playing music together will resolve something that talking cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n

On their new tape,\u00a0heavy objects<\/i>, fraufraulein both resolve and provoke, using musical and abstract sounds to create something between the concrete textures of field recording and the tightrope thrill of spontaneous composition. \u201cWe both enjoy the tension or friction between material that is more apparently musical and that which is not,\u201d says Gomberg, who plays bass guitar and electronics while Guthrie works with French horn and \u201cobjects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m interested in a recording or performance that has dimension, like a sculpture,\u201d Gomberg continues. \u201cOr plays with the appearance of dimension, like a photograph.\u201d That\u2019s a good way to describe both of\u00a0heavy objects<\/i>\u2019 sidelong pieces, which use small, tactile sounds\u2014crashes, bumps, even fireworks outside the couple\u2019s window\u2014to create a three-dimensional environment. These detailed aural events are especially striking in \u201cone of us always tells the truth,\u201d whose title refers in part to the folkloric riddle\u00a0popularized<\/a>\u00a0in the \u201880s film\u00a0Labyrinth.<\/i><\/p>\n

Fraufraulein\u2019s small sounds were inspired in part by a recent addition: Guthrie and Gomberg\u2019s son Jasper, who arrived last year before they began work on\u00a0heavy objects<\/i>. \u201cSince Jasper was born, we haven\u2019t been out in the world as much, and have spent a lot of time getting very familiar with our domestic space, and wanted to focus on the small sounds that have been marking our days,\u201d explains Guthrie. \u201cA month or so before we did these recordings, we played in\u00a0Richard Kamerman<\/a>\u2019s 18-hour piece and brought Jasper along. Watching him try to understand what was going on and seeing adults interact with sound-making objects in a very similar (although much quieter!) way made me want to get back to that here\u2014find the very basic palette of an unfamiliar, simple instrument and tease out all the permutations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Family played a role in Guthrie and Gomberg\u2019s individual paths to music, too, but in different ways. Guthrie\u2019s grandfather was a serious pianist, and her parents played and sang music around the house as she grew up. She took piano and French horn lessons as a kid, eventually acquiring a degree in composition, then delving into improv during a semester in London (where she ended up in a workshop run by AMM legend\u00a0Eddie Pr\u00e9vost<\/a>). Gomberg, on the other hand, has no musicians in his extended family. As an adolescent addicted to MTV\u2019s\u00a0120 Minutes<\/em>, he bought a bass and took lessons, forming what he calls a \u201cgothy band\u201d in high school. Since then, much like Guthrie, he\u2019s carved out his own path through many diverse musical scenarios and collaborations.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the only obstacle for Guthrie and Gomberg\u2019s own collaboration is finding the time to pursue it. \u201cThe past year-plus has been a reset, a constant beginning,\u201d says Gomberg. \u201cThe quickened pulse of participating in the world here has quieted, and I\u2019m OK if today I miss it\u2026maybe I\u2019ll pick up on it tomorrow. Music is something that has been very good to me. I trust it with me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

super happy to be included in the October ’17 edition of Marc Masters’ great HiBias column for Bandcamp, talking about heavy objects, living with music, being a family… https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/2017\/10\/31\/hi-bias-october-2017\/ full text below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,4,5,26],"tags":[18,96,19,23,84,81,12,78,86],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fraufraulein","category-music","category-related","category-review","tag-anne-guthrie","tag-bandcamp","tag-billy-gomberg","tag-cassette","tag-cassettes","tag-digital","tag-fraufraulein","tag-interview","tag-tape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hi-bias-oct-2.gif?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":722,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2011\/06\/billy-gomberg-anne-guthrie-richard-kamerman-blue-gold-delicate-senilse-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":1621,"position":0},"title":"Billy Gomberg, Anne Guthrie, Richard KamermanBlue & Gold, Delicate Sen","author":"billy gomberg","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"well, a couple Fraufraulein releases on the web have pushed open the door this summer. 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