Forming and Storming – Verena Hentschel
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Tracks
1. Storming (preview)
2. Spherical (preview)
3. Virtuoso (preview)
4. Connected (preview)
About New Album
You can listen to the preview of this album on this page. Full audio version is available on streaming platforms and to purchase on Bandcamp.
Forming and Storming
Composition/Piano/Voice/Computer/Mixing : Verena Hentschel
Mastering : Kai Blankenberg/Skyline Tonfabrik
Cover: Verena Hentschel
Dominik-Antoni Krolikowski : artist’s photos
In her EP Forming and Storming, Verena Hentschel presents 4 experimental compositions at the interface between new music and electroacoustics. She improvises on the piano herself and combines her voice with computer sounds to create remarkable, avantgarde sound experiments.
The first track Storming forms the striking and impressive beginning of the EP and is followed by the delicate composition Spherical, which consists of minimalist, warm layers of her voice. The 3rd composition, Virtuoso, impresses with fast and profound bass runs as well as bell-like, high- frequency sounds in high complexity, rapid tempo and with a clear focus. The final track, Connected, brings together with great depth and a conciliatory character what has remained unresolved and needs to be brought together.
Verena Hentschel (*1984) is a german composer/musician and visual artist (painting/media art). Her mainly electronic compositions focus on repetition. The basis for her compositions are field recordings, the focus is on experiencing sound and image. Her genre-spanning repertoire includes electronic dance music, experimental piano music in which she improvises on the piano herself, experimental soundscapes, sleep concerts, music for multiple loudspeakers, audiovisual works (from her paintings) and many more.
Her electronic compositions and audiovisual works have been performed regionally and internationally, including at the Center for International Light Art in Unna, Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Santiago de Chile/Chile and Limerick/Ireland, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) in New York/USA. Verena Hentschel has received classical training in piano, double bass and orchestra from an early age. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music and Media (Double Bass and Visual Music) from the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and a Master of Music in Integrative Composition (Electronic Composition) from the ICEM at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen.