the dear listeners
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'the dear listeners'
- experimental music from the Netherlands -
Robert Deters and Martin Luiten specialise in music that touches, suprises and make you think. Operating under the name ‘the dear listeners’, their musical output is an emotional and rich sound-art, based on interaction and physical presence. Essentially the group name underlines that importance of listening and dialogue when playing and performing their music, investigating what’s hidden under the surface of sound - the areas inbetween pure sound, noise and melodic structures. Whether their soundsculptures are cinematic, tense or hypnotic, the results are always highly concentrated. Robert and Martin have past association with projects such as: 'Vance orchestra'; 'Machinefabriek; 'Girlfriends'; Pick-up and Hitmachine. Labels they've released works with include: 'Important'; 'Low point'; 'EE Tapes'; 'Noctovision'; 'Beta-lactam ring'; 'Drone' and 'Noise Museum'.
Early 2012 their CD ‘Radiostilte’ is released on Korm Plastics.
'The Dear Listeners' listen to Brian Eno, Nurse With Wound, Kraftwerk, Holger Czukay, Keiji Haino, This Heat, AMM, John Cage, Kapotte Muziek, Ennio Morricone ....
R.D. - loops, fieldrecordings, electronics
M.L. - electronics, sampler, hawaii-guitar