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Life Preview Therapy

by Christian Ruhm

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about

In contrast to the previous album "30 Rezepte Für Akzidentien", the 15 tracks are again purely instrumental pieces and lead CR back to its own roots.

As in two albums he produced in the early 2000s, "room.108" and "so.und.trax" (Music for Art & Multimedia), the sounds of various sampled instruments and field recordings also determine the picture in "Life Preview Therapy".

The title of the album refers to a treatment method used in psychiatry (Life Review Therapy), in which patients treating depression are supposed to reflect on their lives in order, at best, to realize that not everything is or was bad. The change in the title now plays with the assumption of looking at the life that lies ahead.

Closely linked to the tracks is a photo series from the same year, in which CR uses various optical aids such as bellows and supplementary lenses to extract the narrowest image sections from slides in his family archive and the resulting abstraction through blurring as a visualization of this paradoxical journey through partly forgotten past and a naturally uncertain future.

For each picture, CR looked for the right sounds for him or recorded them. As a textual component, he found text fragments on postcards from friends or in his diaries, which he placed alongside the pictures in the booklet. However, the latter do not serve to explain the abstract works or sounds, but rather open up another dimension through their mysteriousness.

credits

released November 25, 2022

Recorded north of berlin 2020-22
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All instruments, field recording, sampling by Christian Ruhm



Track 10 contains a sample from John Cage excerpt #6“ from „caged/uncaged - a rock/experimental homage toJohn Cage“ (1993) issued for the XLV Biennale di Venezia with support from the institute for contemporary art, New York, mudima fondazione per l'arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy. (thanks to ubu.com)

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Christian Ruhm

Produced by RuhmFunk


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RUHMFUNK is a profoundly independent and fictional label which was not founded in 2020 by the Berlin based multidisciplinary artist Christian Ruhm.

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