«Shift or latch» was EKG's very first recording, recorded in 2000 and released in 2001 as a 3" CDR on Jason Soliday's Crank Satori.
Noël Akchoté, Skug #53, 20 April 2003:
Nur eine selbstproduzierte Mini-CD-R, dabei sollte dieses Duo längst einen ordentlichen Plattenvertrag haben (vielleicht bei ECM oder der Deutsche Grammophon?). Die Musik der beiden aus Chicago stammenden Hornisten Kyle Bruckmann und Ernst Karel ist recht inspiriert und erinnert mich eher an zeitgenössische Musik der späten 60er Jahre denn an einen gehypten Minimal Electro. Bei manchen Tracks erweitern sie ihr Sound-Spektrum mit analogen Synths, was dann wieder eher an Stockhausen-Mixes erinnern als an Frames aus dem Laptop. Es geht offensichtlich nicht um Stil, sondern um Musik, die sich im Klang, Ton, Raum und in der Zeit ausdehnt. Eine wirkliche Überraschung, und ich hoffe, demnächst mehr zu hören.
"The Ernst and Kyle Group" is the duo of Kyle Bruckmann and Ernst Karel, formed during the late 1990s in Chicago. Their music is a combination of traditional and extended wind techniques with anachronistic (non-digital) electronic processing; they carefully sculpt a bizarre yet organic soundworld of shifting tones, sudden and creeping textures, elusive suggestions of possible melody, and microscopic noise.
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released October 1, 2001
Crank Satori, 2001
Kyle Bruckmann - English horn, analog electronics
Ernst Karel - trumpet, analog electronics
Image: «Beforsten» installation view, Helen Mirra, Meyer Riegger Galerie, 2000
Most of Part Two and all of Part Three recorded at bel Air sound studio by Todd A. Carter, June 2000
The rest recorded in live performance at the Chicago Cultural Center and elsewhere by Ernst Karel, June-August 2000
Mixed and edited by Ernst Karel, August 2001
Ernst Karel makes electroacoustic music and experimental nonfiction sound works for multichannel installation and performance, and collaborates with filmmakers and artists in making audiovisual work.
VQR 'Static' series: long take recordings from fixed positions. Recorded on the River Rhine at the border of Switzerland, France, and Germany, near the shipping port at Kleinhüningen, Basel. Ernst Karel
Fern Room is a stereo version of what was originally a four-channel installation in the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago, from 8 November 2001 to 6 January 2002. Ernst Karel
The brilliant payoff to a line of work Bruckmann has been pursuing since 2004's "gasps & fissures." Poised and patient, but also directed and inexorable. Christopher Burns
From the always-great label Umor Rex comes the latest from Lina Filipovich: A ruthless deconstruction of classical pieces. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 25, 2022