electric jidam
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein Germany
ジャンル:電子音楽 - 実験音楽
経歴:
electric jidam is a project of Peter Paulsen.
Zero One is the debut-album of electric jidam.
Since more than ten years it was my silent wish to realize an electronic music-project like this one. Before this dream arose and I started this project, I played as a bassist with the alternative-band Scoda Blush.
After Scoda Blush had successfully entered the John-Lennon-Talent-Award, Andrew Eldritch, the mastermind of The Sisters Of Mercy was won as the producer for Scoda Blush's debut-album.
The professional work with Eldritch in the studio and the following Europe-tour as support for the Sisters wowed formative and vital impressions, for my future musical way.
After the ambitions of Scoda Blush petered out, I moved to Cologne for a study. There I came in contact with the local vital electronic-scene. At this time my first own tracks in the electronic scope emerged.
Already in the early 90th I had begun to experiment with my - at that time brand new - Yamaha SY35-keyboard an old Atari and a 4-track-recorder. Impressed by artists like Bjork or The Prodigy, I tried to create something similar.
Even though this keyboard I started with is old now, I am still using it. Even some sounds I programmed in these early times made it on Zero One. Exactly as with this vector-synthesis-keyboard the sound of electric jidam is build on a mixture of organic instrument-samples and synthetic sounds that melt to a homogeneous sound. Only in the frequency spectrum there are no equal rights with electric jidam. This is explicitly shifted in favor of the low-pitch region. In this case it was difficult to hold back the bassist in me. Also the affinity to rock is maintained as an undertone in my music.
Before electric jidam was ready to be launched, I once again made a journey into the world of rock. In the mid of 2004 I got a phone call of an old friend, who made an irresistible offer. It was guitarist and music-producer Marc Breuer who was searching for a new bassist for his band Mafuba. Marc and drummer Timo Wriedt were running a small studio together and both are studied sound engineers. So the conditions for a successful project were as they hardly could be better. Mafuba produced in short time two albums under own control and toured through Germany.
In early 2007 love lured me to Los Angeles. A try to move there permanently failed miserably. Stranded back in Germany I had to start from zero again. This outer turning point was as if I had pushed the reset-button of my own life. Thrown out of my previous relations I got the space to put everything into a new order and set up new things.
After a few weeks back in Germany I founded my own little multimedia business peterpaulsen_media and began to work out the first ideas for electric jidam in fall 2008.
Within eight month I produced 10 songs from which at least eight made it onto Zero One.
The title in form of the both numbers of the binary system was not just chosen as a synonym for electronic and computers, or just because it is my first solo-album, but also as a hint at the duality of our world. First the zero is needed, the potential, the open space for the one, before the manifested form of the one can appear. On the other hand the zero would be totally useless without the one, without something that arises in this openness. Therewith it is also about the process of genesis and the principles of femaleness (openness) and maleness (form) which cause each other like two sides of a coin.
Just like behind the title of the album, which is available as download in all important online stores since August 1st 2009, there is a deeper meaning to the name electric jidam.
I derived the name jidam from the buddhist item Yidam. I changed the 'y' to a 'j' because I wanted to avoid the impression I would like to declare myself a Yidam, or the matter would be about buddhist music. In addition the written word also looked better to me with a 'j'.
In tibetan buddhism a Yidam is a Buddha-aspect, which means an expression of specific qualities of the enlightened mind. It is a Buddha-form on which a practitioner focuses while meditation. So a Yidam is the source of inspiration and the connection, the mirror of the enlightened, timeless qualities of the own mind.
Not just as a hint for what awaits the listener, but also to underline once again what for the name jidam shall stand, I added electric. It is another hint at the electrifying, inspiring and enthralling qualities, which inhere in the creator, and the process of creation, as also in the recipient of the creation and therewith is an over-personal principle which connects all human beings.
In his social relations every human being is in content interchange of inspiration. In my opinion is the wish, the vision to enthrall and inspire others with the own work one of the main driving forces that push human beings to make art, even before the wish to express once own emotions in his work. At least that is the way it works for me. In this way the artist name shall just be a circumscription of my musical acting.
If someone would ask me about my most important source of inspiration, so the answer must be, at least for Zero One: My wife Eve.
Every song of Zero One has in some way something to do with her. Therefore I dedicate this album to Eve.
