Jacek Chmiel & Lara Süß are the collective Meandertale. The two started collaborating in 2019. They are both musicians and visual artists alike and are looking for different artistic forms to express themselves. Mainly they concentrated on a musical collaboration with special focus on the conscious perception of silence and its framing using minimalistic sounds. They work sensitively with sound fusion, differentiation as well as with structuring of time and timelessness. Due to their alternate biographical experiences the artistic expression they are creating becomes alive.
Lara Süß works with different art forms. She studied music and movement, she is a vocalist, a classical singer as well as a free improviser and used to perform as an actress as well. Currently, she is a member of different ensembles, such as the poetry ensemble StimmSpiel and she develops her own music theatre pieces. She performed in many different European cities, e.g. Copenhagen, Berlin, Hamburg, Basel, Vienna and Brussels.
Jacek Chmiel is a sound artist, field recordist and improviser playing synthesizers, zither, electronics, singing bowls and objects. His deepest interest in sound is to look for new ways to embed all the possibilities of an ever changing electro-acoustic setup in order to reinvent his way of thinking at every second. Being connected to the time, space and layers created by all the sounds he produces, both as a physical fact as well as abstract peculiarities, he delivers a strong, yet delicate and touching, musicality. He graduated with an MA degree in jazz guitar which was followed by living two years in Nepal where he was the head of the guitar department in Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory. Then he moved to Switzerland and graduated with a MA degree in improvisation in Musik Akademie of Basel studying with Andrea Neumann, Alfred Zimmerlin and Fred Frith.
credits
released August 7, 2022
Jacek Chmiel: Electronics, synthsizer, objects, zither.
Lara Süß: Voice, objects
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jacek Chmiel
Artwork by Adam Nowaczyk
supported by 4 fans who also own “Meandertale: "Obssesions"”
Metal combined with piano sounds... The sound of strikethrough is like encryption... Mr. Turing is nearby)) The detached noise textures are impressive, as is the internal failure for the listener when the gluing is detected! A decent job! Notnotice
supported by 4 fans who also own “Meandertale: "Obssesions"”
Very interesting soundscape. I imagine the gentle clanging of Tibetan water bowls, water droplet sounds in reverse and the intermittent foghorn. Richard Erickson
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