Search - The Silverman :: Requiem Settings (1-6)

While early glitch music experiments were the central feature of "Dream Cell" 's stylistic mix, it's successor "Silvermandalas" concentrated on drone and trance directions. By contrast, "Requiem Settings (1-6)" is a more linear work, with a greater emphasis on subjective association. Despite the title, a September 11 Requiem it isn't - at least not by design (the CD was already completed by the time of the attacks). Two factors determined the project's theme: my father's death, and the place where I lived at the time these recordings began. I was renting an apartment amongst the rolling hills of Groesbeek in Holland, and after finding two WW II grenades (one German, one American) in the woods behind the house, I began to discover the significance of the area. These killing fields marked the battles that began Europe's liberation from the Nazis. Two metal fragments, possible shrapnel) discovered in this same area revealed a pleasing bell-like quality when struck together. This bell-tine provides the static association in "Requiem Settings", while the train sounds heard throughout the work represent the aspect of movement - the sense of journeying to another existence. This sense is never more apparent than in the final setting - the Requiem itself, where the choirs drift in and out of radio static, all the time underpinned by a grandiose musical funeral procession.