The recording itself has an enormous dynamic range with just the right amount of reverb. It should. It was recorded back in the fall of 1984 at Berlin's Martin Gropius building. Just take a look at the image below and imagine the sound of a single drumhead, a single stick. Here's the reasoning behind the musicians selected for the exhibition "Idea, Process, Result" (from Solodrumming's liner notes):
- On the occasions of the exhibition "Ideas, Process, Result" (Internationale Bauausstellung Berlin 84/87) we have searched for the correlation between architecture and music. Throughout the "Klangenthullungen" (Sound Revelations), as we labeled the concerts, the participating musicians developed their performances in accordance with the spatial conditions. With its long reverberation, the glass-roofed court of the Gropiusbau is a subtle partner; delicate in its silence and powerfully surging when charged up rhythmically.
Fritz Hauser has, from my point of view, made best use of its acoustical peculiarities in a most elemental way. The Sound Pictures of Fritz Hauser lead from the real, limited, architectural to the insubstantial, endless space of our imagination. The symbiosis of architecture and music, in times of unlimited acoustical-synthetic possibilities, is genuine.
Sound Pictures! So it's not just me! Yay!
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