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About |
It’s a kind of cathartic unburying of the subconscious.
It absorbs particular mytho-spiritual features of South Indian Classical
and Balinese Gamelan music and perhaps bridges sonic territories between post-jazz, experimental, and ambient music.
It reflects on travels to places like Chennai, (studying oral traditions of South Indian classical music) Delphi, (exploring the myths of ancient Greece) and the Dordogne valley (delving into palaeolithic cave art of southern France).
With the additional help of a dream diary I arrived at a new tuning system The tuning originated on a microtonal prepared piano that I was working with for my artistic research at RMC. The tuning system might offer some reconciliation between western and eastern ideas in the sense of combining embodied aspects of Balinese microtonality with Just Intonation – Nature’s “pure sounds”.
Recorded sounds were captured in various architectures and materialities. The saxophones, for instance, were re-played and re-recorded in different spaces, out of specific objects (like old oil barrels and cymbals) and thereby exist in varied states of matter of an extended time-collage.
One of these spaces is the unique architecture of TunnelFabrikken. This is the historic site where the Øresunds bridge (linking Denmark and Sweden) was constructed. The recordings and finished mixes capture Tunnelfabrikken before the start of major renovations and gentrification and therefore sonically preserves a piece of danish history.
PRESS
“Matt Choboter, who can just as easily be found in a jazz concert as in a contemporary music setting with this music, is obviously a voice that cannot be compared to anyone else’s.” …. “Matt Choboter takes us to places no one has been before.” – Tor Hammerø in Nettavisen
“The enigmatic music sounds like nothing you may have listened to before but feels so familiar, vivid and stimulating.” – Eyal Hareuveni in Salt peanuts.
credits
released June 28, 2024
Music composed by Matt Choboter.
Musicians:
Matt Choboter (CA)| microtonal prepared piano
Jan Kadereit (DE) | percussion
Calum Builder (AU)| alto saxophone
Miguel Crozzoli (AR)| tenor saxophone
Michal Biel (PL) |baritone saxophone
Recorded by Simon Mariegaard
Mixed by Simon Mariegaard
Mastered by Sam Nacht
Produced by Matt Choboter, Simon Mariegaard
Recorded at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (Copenhagen) in 2021.
Re-amped in Tunnel Fabrikken and various objects like oil barrels, cymbals and bass drum.