{"title":"Stephan Mathieu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephan Mathieu is a German mastering engineer. He operates Schwebung Mastering, preparing audio for analog and digital products, streaming media, and restoring archival material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 1989 to 2016, he was active as a musician, starting as a drummer before venturing into electroacoustic music and sound installation. Mathieu's unique sound is primarily based on early instruments and obsolete media. He records and transforms these elements using experimental microphony, re-editing techniques, and dedicated software processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMathieu has released his music both solo and in collaboration with renowned artists such as Taylor Deupree, Ekkehard Ehlers, Fennesz, Robert Hampson (as Main), Akira Rabelais, and David Sylvian. His works can be found on respected labels like 12k, Editions Mego, Grönland, Line Records, as well as his own imprint called Schwebung.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wandermude","title":"Wandermude","description":"\u003cp\u003eMathieu first collaborated with Sylvian at 2011’s Punkt festival in Kristiansand, Norway, when he performed a live remix of Sylvian \/ Czukay’s ambient classic \u003ci\u003ePlight and Premonition\u003c\/i\u003e. “I’ve lived with Stephan’s work for many years,” says Sylvian. “After hearing his remix at Punkt I decided he’d be the right person to take an alternate approach to the Blemish files.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The recordings have a beautiful clarity about them due to their simple but sturdy frameworks, and their open-ended architecture makes them ideal for a project of this sort.” When Mathieu first heard \u003ci\u003eBlemish\u003c\/i\u003e, “I was quite amazed by the album, its dark beauty… . When David sent me the files from the sessions one year ago, they were a pool of wonderful material to me, detached from the songs and original album, while very much connected to David at the same time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA startling break from Sylvian’s previous work, \u003ci\u003eBlemish\u003c\/i\u003e is pensive and spare, wrapping a lyrical raw nerve in extended, drone-like song structures. Recorded in a relatively-quick six week burst, \u003ci\u003eBlemish\u003c\/i\u003e was “cathartic” for Sylvian. An earlier remix album, 2005’s \u003ci\u003eThe Good Son vs. The Only Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, took the material in varied and lusher directions, but \u003ci\u003eWandermüde\u003c\/i\u003e puts it under a microscope. The catharsis of the original is tested and reinvigorated by Mathieu’s treatment, which he performs in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My work with computers is always live,” Mathieu explains. “I’m feeding selected material into a software process and record the output, which I either take as is, or discard completely. I don’t multi-track, edit or re-arrange, I’m interested in self-evolving sound with all its rough and sometimes faulty qualities. I never use effects like artificial reverb in my music, so what you hear is rather a piling up of spaces that surround the individual inputs used for my processes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gronland","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50491387281739,"sku":"2010428","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50491384365387,"sku":"357452","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Wanderm_C3_BCde_06f1e763_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727686143"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_f0f20398_thumbnail_4096_a6ee3df7-02b5-4131-8be1-acaca456e75b.jpg?v=1727686109","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/stephan-mathieu.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}