Polwechsel

The advent of Polwechsel in the mid- to late '90s helped coalesce a part of the Viennese experimental music scene (and to some extent the European one too) around an esthetic of a post-minimalist search for the inner details of sound. What would be called "microsound" or "lowercase-sound" for the next few years was first explored and exposed by this quartet. Its influence and impact has been important, even though the group only took part in a growing sensibility to look into silence and quietness to find the next step avant-garde music, especially the live kind, should take. ...