Album Review: Descriptions of Useless Subtitles and Meaningful Sublimations from Renato Diz and Peter Traunmueller
Album: Descriptions of Useless Subtitles and Meaningful Sublimations
Artists: Renato Diz and Peter Traunmueller
Label: W&J Productions
Websites: https://www.wjproductionsllc.com/artists/renato-diz-peter-traunmueller
https://www.petertraunmueller.com
Descriptions of Useless Subtitles and Meaningful Sublimations from keyboardist-composer Renato Diz and drummer-composer Peter Traunmueller is a multi-faceted project with José Diogo Neves mixing and mastering their recording. The project consists of their original recording along with an 18-page book of poems by the same title and authored by Diz and Traunmueller. The book contains original black and white drawings by Pedro Marnoto to accompany each poem and corresponding track.
The impetus for the project is to illustrate the "telepathic musical connection" between Traunmueller and Diz. Their compositions demand that the listener immerses oneself in the dynamic movements of these two "organisms," as they adventure along an unpremeditated course, exploring, percolating, scurrying, and flourishing at whim. The recording opens up the subliminal-imaginative part of the brain, enticing the listener to travel deep inside the mind. One becomes so engulfed and lost in the compositions that where one track ends and another begins is seamless.
Each track has an unique set of chord structures, movements, polyrhythmic patterns, and motifs underscored by raw, primal effects, which are decipherable in the track "I Am Suspicion, The Creeks of AH" The accompanied poem describes, "In-end / existed, will forever exist / doesn't disappear / as candescented / an illusion / is a lie / Don't ask! / Just don't answer!... I want to fit it all here but can I? / Scream-laughing / closing entrances of keeping / the animal inside / Moving." The corresponding drawing by Marnoto puts an expressive visual in the reader's mind, depicting these thoughts and channeling the sonic passages into imagery.
The music, the words, and the artwork are eclectic, livid, vividly primal, and deeply emotional. Sonically, the organisms emote struggles, growth, persistence, hardship, and glory. Simultaneously, the reader can discern these images in the poetry and drawings. Such a multi-media project that combines sound, poetry, and visuals may have been done by previous artists but this particular project is one of a kind, depicting the human condition.
Traunmueller explains, "This multimedia project, album + art & poetry book, has taken six years to materialize fully and was envisioned as a multi-sensorial ecosystem containing 13 interdependent organisms, each containing a musical soundscape, a poem, and a visual artwork. Initially born out of a visceral need to document the telepathic connection between Renato and myself, it quickly evolved into a multilayered collaboration between artists who shared a common vision fueled by radical spontaneity. We envisioned this to be an immersive experience where listening to the music, reading the poetry, and visualizing the artwork are done quasi-simultaneously."
Descriptions of Useless Subtitles and Meaningful Sublimations is quite a journey that the listener will not soon forget. The multi-media project opens pathways in the mind, stimulating the aural senses and primal psyche, affecting the audience in a most unique way.
Musicians:
Renato Diz - sound engineering, keyboard, collaborative composition, collaborative poetry, final collaborative artwork, graphic design
Peter Traunmueller - drums, collaborative composition, collaborative poetry
Pedro Marnoto - drawing, final collaborative artwork, graphic design
José Diogo Neves - sound, mixing & mastering engineering
Lizzie Suh - graphic design
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