TRACK LIST:
1. CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS (8:50)

2. ALLOTROPY (11:59)

3. LATENT HEAT OF FUSION (16:02)

4. DIFFERENT KINDS OF SNOW (22:27)

5. QUARTZITE (6:31)

6. CRYSTALLINE SYNTHESIS (7:33)

Casserley, Bürck, Bürck 'Crystalline Strata'

Genre: electroacoustic

Casserley explains that a key factor in his collaboration with Rainer and Martin Bürck "is the constant layering of different elements and sonic objects. We are playing constantly with different levels of integration and separation between the layers. This is particularly apparent in my role, partly because my instrument can be seen as a “layer making machine”, but also because of the way I switch between processing Rainer’s sounds, Martin’s sounds and both together. It is as if I am controlling a fountain that springs from two different sources; sometimes I am highlighting differences between them, sometimes fusing their two sounds into one stream; sometimes even both at once. Thus much of the layering springs directly from my transformations.

The brothers’ crisp percussive sounds are marvellously crystalline structures in themselves, and frequently they build these separate sounds into larger crystalline forms, both individually and in duet. Another characteristic of my instrument is that it is a creator of resonances; I have a large array of different resonances and combinations of resonances available, and I employ them frequently to enhance and extend the crystallinity of the sounds, while also multiplying and layering them into “crystalline strata”. But these are merely the atoms, the building blocks of what we do; it is the architecture that is the music. In the end it is the way we interact together, and the way these relationships vary, that creates these forms."

Credits:
Lawrence Casserley: signal processing instrument
Martin Bürck: precussion
Rainer Bürck: piano