Adam Bohman

Adam Bohman
Bohman's personal approach to music has essentially always been acoustic, but due to his close involvement with live electronics (he is a founder member of Morphogenesis), his sounds have very often been subjected to signal processing. On this recording all the music (except for one piece that uses slowed down and backwards sounds), is made from the unprocessed sounds of a variety of small surface playing and percussive techniques. This is his second solo CD and covers the full variety of his work which has been slowly evolving since the mid eighties. In particular there is over 30 minutes of one of his many 'talking tapes', previously only heard on audio letters to correspondents and previewed on the previous Paradigm Discs release "Variations" (PD 01). These tapes consist of on the spot cassette recordings of his observations, both humorous, mundane and personal, as well as the day to day activities of his life. The sounds of the environment, the sluggish recording mechanism and the use of the pause button give this piece an almost concrète, sound text feel. This piece dates from 1994. There are also 3 'pause pieces' dating from 1990, which are rapid collages of prerecorded sound material, also recorded on cassette recorders. This uses the same technique as heard on the Anton Bruhin CD on Alga Marghen. Finally there are 4 multitracked studio recordings, and one live concert recording. Crucial to all these pieces is the element of improvisation. Bohman has collaborated with a diverse cross section of improvisers, from Lol Coxhill to Joseph Hammer.