ABSTRACT
When considering the music of Peter Rehberg and Christian Fennesz, one encounters terms such as noise and glitch. Many authors dealing with this topic point to the fact that noise is subjective and cultural. Noise has existed for as long as humankind, but as a problem for music it came into focus only in the twentieth century. Glitches are often very short and are typically used in place of traditional percussion or instrumentation. Peter Rehberg developed an interest in music as a teenager, not through playing instruments but through collecting records and cataloguing them, as lists fascinated him as much as records themselves. Mego was admittedly the first Austrian label which acquired an e-mail address and its own website. Christian Fennesz went to a music high school and took lessons in classical guitar. The title of the record, Becs, which means 'Vienna' in Hungarian, suggests that Vienna will be looked at from a distance.
