We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

A Game Of Chance

by Michael Brückner

supported by
anandathah
anandathah thumbnail
Richard Algar
Richard Algar thumbnail
musicyoucan
musicyoucan thumbnail
Unkamahk
Unkamahk thumbnail
DJ 2 Minute Noodle
DJ 2 Minute Noodle thumbnail
mthuene
mthuene thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    ...also includes printable cover art, liner notes and some interviews etc.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €9 EUR  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    ...in a standard double jewel case with full printed artwork (...the booklet is even a little more special than usual - see photos).

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Game Of Chance via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days

      €14 EUR or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    122
    releases

    Get all 122 Michael Brückner releases available on Bandcamp and save 60%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of THREEQUENCES, XONZ (ep), Extended Sigh, Eleventh Sun - ReVisited, 100 Million Miles Under The Stars - ReVisited, Umkehrpunkt, Hymns to the Dawn (Drones, Atmospheres and Dreamscapes Vol. 3), STREAMING OR DREAMING - Live in 2021, and 114 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €294.88 EUR or more (60% OFF)

     

1.
Part I - A Game Of Winds 19:47
buy track
2.
Part II - A Game Of Lights 08:52
buy track
3.
Part III - A Game Of Strings 19:29
buy track
4.
Part IV - A Game Of Hands 09:06
buy track
5.
Part V - A Game Of Different Winds 18:15
buy track
6.
Part VI - A Game Of Chance (including Carrousel) 01:16:56
buy track

about

"A Game Of Chance" was my 89th album, recorded and originally released in late August / early September in 2008.

Actually, this album was much the result of a long and inspiring conversation I had with my old friend, experimental musician and radio host Alexander Spechtenhauser, at the open air festival "Night Of The Progs" in July 2008, which was headlined by Tangerine Dream and - most important for me - Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard.

However, if You expect anything in the vein of these heros of mine, then "A Game Of Chance" is rather the wrong album; instead the music was inspired Alexander's idea for a sound installation in a park in his hometown - as far as I remember based on wind chimes, playing aleatoric music in the trees.

So the big theme that provides a link between all the tracks of the album is indeed that every composition is based on a certain degree of randomness - or chance!
Which does not mean that the music is completely random from start to end. Rather, some kind of random process provided the basic sonic events which the pieces are built on, but of course these elements were developed further and put into some shape in a second step.

The method to generate the random musical events was different for each track (actually, most of the titles hint at those methods), and depending on the "technique" employed, the results turned out rather differently (which accounts for the fact that the individual tracks are stylistically quite divers).

In the end, some of the compositions tend more towards minimal music (or maybe new age) while others can better be described as abstract ambient.

I do confess that today I don't remember the actual source of randomness behind all of the tracks, but the opener, "A Game Of Winds" was very much my attempt to emulate how Andreas' installation would probably have sounded like, and the aleatoric element was how often and how loud the idividual (virtual) chimes did ring (which was determined by a comupter algorithm - so it's one of the few cases when I actually employed algorthmic composition).

In "A Game Of Lights" I used my trusty old sound software "Metasynth" to convert some (random) digital pictures (pixels, in other words: light from a computer screen) into sound.

Metasynth also was employed in "A Game Of Different Winds" - but I forgot the actual way I brought in the wind element (...pictures of storms maybe? ...charts of atmospheric currents? Maybe something like that.)

In "A Game Of Hands" I myself served as the "random generator" - or more precisely my not very well developed performing skills, so that whole track is improvised and played all by hand (on piano, mostly).

What exactly had been the sources of chance in "A Game Of Strings" and the long title track that fills CD 2, unfortunately has slipped from my memory in the remaining 9 years...

credits

released September 9, 2008

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Michael Brückner image

Michael Brückner Mainz, Germany

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, later settled down near Mainz.

Earns a living as a graphical designer.

Ambient and other electronica since 1992.

Accumulated an extended back catalogue (more than 90 albums by end of 2011, number still growing).

Since 2007 offers his music in the internet, via the usual platforms.

Sometimes gets reviews + airplay.

Very rarely plays live.

More is to come... ... more

contact / help

Contact Michael Brückner

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Michael Brückner recommends:

If you like Michael Brückner, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now