The music of this album was made in close relation to drawings of sound.
The work is based on a process where I have translated field recordings into graphic scores, which I then interpreted into new music.
On my travels the last couple of years, I started doing field recordings of places with exciting sounding qualities, snaps and snippets of situations with a special atmosphere or environment that attracted me in other ways. I took these recordings home and listened to them in a loop, whilst trying to draw what I heard.
From this translation, of sound into image, sprung a collection of graphic scores that revealed new possible sound worlds.
The scores were interpreted into pieces of music that yet again fostered more drawings, and sooner or later a whole feedback system of translation started to build up, as matter travelled back and forth between audial and visual domains.
In this process of translation and transformation, the origins started to fade into forgotten territory, and in their place contours of new stories and emotions started to unveil themselves.
From somewhere along these lines I imagine the music of this album is singing its songs.
Jaleh Negari 2021
credits
released June 4, 2021
Field recordings from:
Gunung Kidul and Yogyakarta Java, Indonesia
Ghalat Village Shiraz; kelardasht forest and Def Banafsh Mazandaran, Iran
Forbrændingen Albertslund and Glyptoteket København, Denmark
All music composed, arranged and produced by Jaleh Negari
Lyrics for illo tempore by Alexander Holm
Lyrics for differences in kind by Jaleh Negari
Mix of opening pattern, memory of the world, cluster of knots, differences in kind, the harvester and simorgh by Anders Bach
Mix of eliza and illo tempore by Andreas Pallisgaard
Mastering by Brian Mørk Hansen
Cover art and layout by Felia Gram-Hanssen
Cover paintings by Jaleh Negari and Felia Gram-Hanssen
eliza feat. sounds by Jeppe Brix and Alexander Holm
illo tempore feat. sounds and vocals by Alexander Holm
the harvester feat. Jeppe Brix on synthesizer
simorgh feat. Anders Bach on synthesizer
opening pattern feat. voice message from Mahzad Sinai
thanks to Danish Arts Council and Koda Kultur for support of this album
many thanks to Thomas and Emil from Cejero, Mikkel Frantzen, Wilfred Wagner, Felia and Andreas
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