Valgeir Sigurosson - Dissonance (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Valgeir Sigurosson
- Title: Dissonance
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: Bedroom Community
- Genre: Modern Classical, Electronic
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 51:49 min
- Total Size: 293 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
History freely dilates and collapses on Valgeir Sigurðsson’s Dissonance, his first solo release since 2012. Its three large-scale works are haunted by the old Western tradition, infused with the ethereal workings of electronics and sound manipulation.
Dissonance treads elegantly along a fine line between traditional symphonic organicism and the fissures of the faltering structures of reality. It takes forward Sigurðsson's typically expansive, panoramic writing, and elevates it to a perpetual construction and deconstruction of time and space.
These are hardly his first experiments with the archaic technology of classical instruments, but here the distance between past and present is precisely what the music itself is designed to explore, and to distort.
Recorded and produced between September 2015 and November 2016 at Greenhouse Studios, Dissonance is disarmingly human, reflecting the most extreme four years of Sigurðsson’s life full of ecstatic joy and deep sorrow. Dissonance is a personal and collective musical treatise to explore and question a world that is collapsing under its internal dissonances.
The recording process on Dissonance incorporates an orchestral recording technique that Sigurðsson has been developing for some years now, where he breaks up the orchestra and records each of its sections separately. Layer after layer he records performances by collaborators Liam Byrne and Reykjavík Sinfonia. A handful of string players and just one of each of the orchestra's instruments are then multiplied to create an imaginary orchestra. This method enables Sigurðsson's complete control over all the details and nuances, and the trade-off for the time-consuming process is a truly unique sounding ensemble that is at the composer's disposal for further electronic manipulation. This also results in an elastic palette of sound for the live performance version of Dissonance which Sigurðsson will take to the stage in 2017, alongside Liam Byrne (on strings) and visuals created by the Antivj collective.
Tracklist:
01. Reykjavík Sinfonia, LIAM BYRNE - Dissonance
02. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, I. flow
03. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, II. infamy sings
04. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, III. fear and grief and pain
05. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, Iv. learn to contemn light
06. Reykjavík Sinfonia - 1875, I.waterborne
07. Reykjavík Sinfonia - 1875, II. in the dead of winter
08. Reykjavík Sinfonia - 1875, III. displaced
Dissonance treads elegantly along a fine line between traditional symphonic organicism and the fissures of the faltering structures of reality. It takes forward Sigurðsson's typically expansive, panoramic writing, and elevates it to a perpetual construction and deconstruction of time and space.
These are hardly his first experiments with the archaic technology of classical instruments, but here the distance between past and present is precisely what the music itself is designed to explore, and to distort.
Recorded and produced between September 2015 and November 2016 at Greenhouse Studios, Dissonance is disarmingly human, reflecting the most extreme four years of Sigurðsson’s life full of ecstatic joy and deep sorrow. Dissonance is a personal and collective musical treatise to explore and question a world that is collapsing under its internal dissonances.
The recording process on Dissonance incorporates an orchestral recording technique that Sigurðsson has been developing for some years now, where he breaks up the orchestra and records each of its sections separately. Layer after layer he records performances by collaborators Liam Byrne and Reykjavík Sinfonia. A handful of string players and just one of each of the orchestra's instruments are then multiplied to create an imaginary orchestra. This method enables Sigurðsson's complete control over all the details and nuances, and the trade-off for the time-consuming process is a truly unique sounding ensemble that is at the composer's disposal for further electronic manipulation. This also results in an elastic palette of sound for the live performance version of Dissonance which Sigurðsson will take to the stage in 2017, alongside Liam Byrne (on strings) and visuals created by the Antivj collective.
Tracklist:
01. Reykjavík Sinfonia, LIAM BYRNE - Dissonance
02. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, I. flow
03. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, II. infamy sings
04. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, III. fear and grief and pain
05. Reykjavík Sinfonia - No Nights Dark Enough, Iv. learn to contemn light
06. Reykjavík Sinfonia - 1875, I.waterborne
07. Reykjavík Sinfonia - 1875, II. in the dead of winter
08. Reykjavík Sinfonia - 1875, III. displaced
Year 2018 | Classical | Electronic | Ambient | FLAC / APE
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