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KLANDESTEIN is a group of musicians of variable makeup, enabling it to assume multiple configurations of personnel and sounds thus creating a specific form of music making.

KLANDESTEIN's music is based on seven-note phrases, so-called "modules". The source of these modules is a system in which every day of my life is expressed by a single note. Hence this is both a method of making music and a way of recording time. A module may be defined as a sequence of seven successive notes relating to a given week. As a result each module has a fixed existence in time, as it is played only during its seven days, from Monday to Sunday. The module is incorporated into the very essence of an acoustic structure where it can be subjected to various transformations, and where it functions as the foundation upon which rests an entire edifice of sounds, created from an interaction of musical associations and the collaboration between performers.

Taking into account the lack of strictly defined time frames, our music's tendency towards resembling a "flood of sound", and other characteristics, which are close to the conventions of Ambient Music whilst simultaneously containing strongly dissonant elements derived from the tonal principles to which we adhere, which generate an atmosphere that evokes reminders of horror films, an appropriate way of characterizing the genre of the music performed by KLANDESTEIN would be by the use of the words ZOMBIENT (Music For Living Dead), TRAUMBIENT or PHOBIENT.