Ereignishorizont

"The event horizon gives the black hole its size; behind it hides the singularity. And the more
extended it is, the more massive the black hole is. But the event horizon is also invisible; if matter
or light passes through it, there is no turning back."

EREIGNISHORIZONT is SCHNEIDER TM's new and with a duration of over 80 minutes truly
epic album: experimental guitar, technological innovations and excursions into musical
territories beyond the usual. Available as 2x LP / 2x CD / DL.

Schneider TM is a multidimensional music project of Dirk Dresselhaus which oscillates extensively
between adventurous electronic pop-music and experimental, sometimes improvised freeform
music, while occasionally bringing these and other opposing elements together.
Since the mid-Nineties, he has been exploring unknown musical territory on practically each new
release, solo or in diverse short- and long-term collaborations and projects with the likes of ex-PAN
SONIC member Ilpo Väisänen (as die ANGEL), Zappi W Diermaier (Faust), Reinhold Friedl
(zeitkratzer), Oren Ambarchi, Hildur Guðnadóttir, BJ Nilsen, Lucio Capece, Elena Poulou (ex-THE
FALL), Damo Suzuki (ex-CAN), John Duncan (LAFMS), EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's Jochen
Arbeit & Andrew Unruh, Günter Schickert as well as to numerous works in the field of film music,
radio plays, (performance-) theater, contemporary dance and general studio production.
Over the last years, Dirk has been moving SCHNEIDER TM in the direction of instantly composed
freeform music, employing varying equipment like processed guitar & sound objects as well as field
recordings, as documented on albums like 'Construction Sounds', 'Guitar Sounds' or ,'Con-Struct',
a posthumous collaboration with Conrad Schnitzler, all released on Bureau B.

EREIGNISHORIZONT, SCHNEIDER TM's new and with a duration of over 80 minutes truly epic
album, sounds and feels like a soundtrack for a yet-to-be-made sci-fi movie and exposes the
essence of Dresselhaus' artistic approaches, crafted here with a more pared-down set-up, an
awareness of advanced musical techniques, the physicality of sound, and an improvisational spirit
that is based on the experience that things are strongest when they happen first.
Performed on (partly self-developed) electroacoustic guitars + effects through a stereo set of tube
amps with sensibilities for the world of modular synthesis and a range of seemingly contrarian
musical directions, the 8 tracks present transcendental micro- and macrotonal soundscapes and
polyrhythms, a musical cosmology that appears to be located in a sort of idiosyncratic alternate or
parallel universe where parameters are slightly shifted, which doesn't necessarily mean something
like 'otherworldliness' but certainly offer a view onto 'reality' from a bunch of different angles.

The main tools on EREIGNISHORIZONT are two customized electroacoustic guitars:
# The "FireSchneiderTM" has sound chambers featuring removable bakelite lids and piezo mics,
that can be used as percussion tools, vocal mics, or filled with interesting sounding materials like
screws, etc.
# The next step in the long-term collaboration between Schneider TM and Deimel Guitarworks is
the "SPARK":
In addition to conventional magnetic and piezo pickups the guitar also has playable reverb springs,
one of which is attached to the tremolo construction and can be tensioned. The different sound
sources can be combined via a global selector switch and sent to an integrated electronic LesLee,
which oscillates back and forth between the signals and is connected to CV In & Out sockets for
integrating e.g. modular synthesizers via control voltage. The "SPARK" can not only be played
acoustically, electrically and electronically, but as an electro-acoustic sound object it also offers
possibilities for playing techniques that are not typical for guitars.

The sci-fi feel of EREIGNISHORIZONT is complemented by the artwork by SEBASTIAN MAYER
who, just a few weeks before Dresselhaus contacted him, got the opportunity to work as a betatester
with some of the first available AI based image generators (for which Mayer himself prefers
the name "neural network image generator" because there's no "intelligence" - yet - in these
networks). Dirk sent Sebastian some tracks of the new album with the note that he was thinking about this
particular image when recording them. Mayer listened to his recordings and understood what
inspired SCHNEIDER TM about these more-or-less artificial artworks: "there's a crude weirdness
to the image, it's funny but at the same time a bit frightening, by topic and by style. It's like an
omen of what's ahead of us in regards to AI – and not only about image generation but in a wider
sense. AI will impact our society in ways we can not yet comprehend, and this image is a coarse
yet deceptive harbinger for things that are yet to come - for better or worse."

credits:
All pieces instantly composed and performed with electric & electroacoustic guitars, effects & tube
amps, recorded (2019-2022) & mixed (09/2022) by Dirk Dresselhaus at ZONE, Berlin
Mastered 10/2022 by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Published by Edition MirrorWorldMusic
Digital artwork generated, composited, and processed 8-10/2022 by Sebastian Mayer
Layout & design by kaidoh