CHROME
Ulrich Drechsler
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“Everything is sound and CHROME is pure sound” – clarinettist and composer Ulrich
Drechsler loves to search for new sounds. That “material”, that smallest musical module that
carries the secret why music is able to touch us so emotionally, accompanies us throughout
our lives and simply belongs to being human.
Drechsler loves to search for new sounds. That “material”, that smallest musical module that
carries the secret why music is able to touch us so emotionally, accompanies us throughout
our lives and simply belongs to being human.
With CHROME, the award-winning multi-stylist consistently continues his adventure journey into the heart of music, which he embarked on in 2020 with the highly acclaimed sibling project “Caramel”.
Here Ulrich’s inspirations from neoclassicism, ambient and film music flow together. In the 13-
part, almost entirely through-composed suite “Silence Is My Canvas”, CHROME manifests
this idea of a new sound that emerges from absolute silence, gradually blending fine lines and
rhythms into a graceful, gently iridescent organism.
Such music requires extraordinary protagonists. Cellist Ida Leidl, violist Simon Schellnegger
and violinist Efe Turumtay – these three extremely individual string players and personalities
together form the heart of CHROME.
Peter Zirbs, one of the great heroes of the legendary Viennese school of electronics, weaves
gentle electronic clouds of mist around all this. Finally, Ulrich Drechsler’s touching clarinets
that unite everything. Together they take the audience by the hand and lead them to this
place of subtle sounds, sensitive energies and epically indulgent atmospheres. The
soundtrack of an imaginary film, which consciously eludes any stylistic categorisation.
That’s CHROME.Â
Description
Description
Ulrich Drechsler • bass clarinet / basset horn / clarinet
Efe Turumtay • violin
Simon Schellnegger • viola
Ida Leidl • cello
Peter Zirbs • electronics
all compositions & arrangements by Ulrich Drechsler (AKM)
recorded by Martin Klebahn at 4tune Studios, Vienna, 2021.
graphic design by Seite Zwei.
