Refshaleøen Tapes vol. I -> out on Bandcamp
2 four_part_drone
This is a 10+ minute drone, perfect for staring at the walls.
It features the Mutable Instruments Tides module: here used as an oscillator with 4 different variations, that can be multiples or subdivisions of its original frequency, creating beautiful chords (in just intonation) that correspond to polyrhythms.
This was a big inspiration for me when I was writing YES FOR NO for symphony orchestra and 3 soloists.
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about the album:
Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings. Mostly, live-recordings and improvisations from my home studio in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. The recordings span from early 2018 until a few days ago and most of them were never meant to be "pieces" or "tracks". Yet there is something appealing about them, just because of that. Here, you will find some possible ideas for future tracks, "live-remixes" of previously released tracks, improvisations and some bleep bloop just-testing stuff. Listening back to all this music, I can't honestly remember how I did half of it. It almost feels like someone else's music. I like that.
I hope you like it too.
credits
released March 20, 2020
Composed, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by Xavier Bonfill between January 2018 and March 2020.
Instruments: assorted Eurorack Synth modules, Teenage Engineering Op1 & PO32, voice, maybe something else that was lying around.
