Biography
(1) The Pitch is a quartet made up of Boris Baltschun, Koen Nutters, Michael Thieke and Morten Joh. Founded in Berlin in 2009, they play a hypnotic form of structured improvisation full of acoustic exploration and electronic intervention.
(2) What is Pitch? the property of sound that varies with the frequency of vibration, or the act of tossing a ball? Perhaps it's condensed version of an idea used to sell a product or oneself. It is a sharp angle or the violent rocking of a boat on the sea? What about a dark viscous substance?
Marc Canter and Stuart Sharpe were Pitch, and they were able to synthesize all of the above ideas on their lone, mysterious 12-inch release. In the late 70's, these hardwired mega-geeks dreamt of constructing a "Soundvision Machine"- an interactive performance device that would incorporate MIDI keyboards, touch-screen displays, stat-of-the-art microphones and video equipment. Their excitement over knobs, sliders, and buttons grew over the years, and by 1981, the future was closer than ever. (Wax Poetics, Robbie Busch)
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