Arkbro, Ellen
Sounds While Waiting
Recorded at a centuries-old church in Unnaryd, Sweden in June 2020, these pieces reveal the enchanting qualities of
sustained harmonic sound, how patterns of listening dissolve and emerge as textured space. On opening track "Changes,"
long radiant tones ebb and flow like divine breaths, while "Leaving Dreaming" builds with dynamic tension to unlock a
subtle, otherworldly ambience.
As the composer states in the sleeve notes, "These recordings are traces of something I have come to love to do in large
resonant spaces, which is to set up sustained chords on multiple organs and then move slowly through the sound. The
instruments are usually far apart, which makes for the emergence of large fields of continuous change, spaces of
harmonicity that can be passed through layer by layer and which contain within them points of both clarity and
overwhelming complexity. The organ pipes are tuned and retuned, though sometimes I leave them just as they are. What I'm
searching for is the moment when a particular kind of sounding texturality is revealed - it is rough, focused and yet
strangely transparent."
Arkbro composes for acoustic instruments, for synthetic sound and for combinations of both, including music for
orchestra and smaller chamber ensembles and large scale installation works. She currently performs in Catherine Christer
Hennix's Kamigaku ensemble and has previously studied with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in New York. Recommended
for fans of Sarah Davachi, Eliane Radigue and Charlemagne Palestine.
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
13-10-2023
Label
Item-nr
566512
EAN
0857661008377
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
CHANGES
2
SCULPTURE I
3
LEAVING DREAMING
4
UNTITLED RAIN
5
SCULPTURE II