Protostar is the first album of the sound art duo Neon & Landa.
Neon & Landa research musical forms with a bottom-up approach.
Finding new forms for instruments, redefining playing techniques while pushing the bounderies of improvisational and compositional thinking.
Their experimental use of materials and electronics leads to the creation of sound installations, sculptures, instruments and unconventional music.
Actually it’s technically a re-release, but technicalities don’t matter to Ungrund.
Ungrund is not distinguished by any clarity of precision, such as is characteristic to a concept.
UNGRUND came into being out of the unreasonable, the uncalculable, the surrealistic and the plain beastly side of the human spirit. Ungrund, as pure potency, is irrational and free. Out of it is born God. Since God does not create irrational freedom, He has no power over it and is not responsible for it. And it is irrational freedom which gives birth to music. It does this by violating the proper hierarchy of the world. Ungrund is a primordial meonic freedom, indeterminate even by God.
Ungrund is the Nothing, the groundless eye of eternity, yet together with this it is will, without foundation, unfathomable and indeterminate will. Ungrund is neither light, nor darkness, neither good, nor evil.
U N G R U N D is:
Ernst van der Loo: Max/MSP, Doepfer Analog Modular, Effectpedals & Clavia Micromodular
Processed Recordings is currently undergoing a make over to become a netlabel with (mostly) free content.
We will still focus on electronic and improvised music coming from The Netherlands, but releases will be downloadable for free. Audio will be available in mp3 and most importantly in lossless flac format!
We will re-release old releases (UNGRUND) and a brand new release by Neon & Landa is almost good to go.