Harmonia
(2020)
duration 56 minutes
Like a moving soundtrack to no film in particular, Harmonia is an exploration of what I could create in my own studio. Having spent four seasons as composer-in-residence with the Copenhagen Phil it was time for something completely different. This was a passion-project, a longstanding question I had had about what would happen if a classical composer decided to take on the challenge of composing, producing and recording an album. Composing the music, learning to program analog synths, recording myself on piano and Johanna Bolin on cello (and with cameos by Theo Burghouts on Bouzouki and guitar and Martin Cholewa on french horn) and brought across the finish-line by co-producer and mixer Gijs van Klooster, it was a two-year labour of love.
This album is at once something approachable yet unfamiliar, taking the expansive structures of the classical tradition and winding a tale that crosses between known and unknown soundscapes. Popular music reveals its influence in sections of minimalist repetition, chords locking into shape with instrumental layering taking over the developmental banner. Here is an album that takes the listener through vistas of pounding rhythms, serenely intimate melancholy and clashing sound worlds that combine into exciting constellations. Harmonia.
duration 56 minutes
Like a moving soundtrack to no film in particular, Harmonia is an exploration of what I could create in my own studio. Having spent four seasons as composer-in-residence with the Copenhagen Phil it was time for something completely different. This was a passion-project, a longstanding question I had had about what would happen if a classical composer decided to take on the challenge of composing, producing and recording an album. Composing the music, learning to program analog synths, recording myself on piano and Johanna Bolin on cello (and with cameos by Theo Burghouts on Bouzouki and guitar and Martin Cholewa on french horn) and brought across the finish-line by co-producer and mixer Gijs van Klooster, it was a two-year labour of love.
This album is at once something approachable yet unfamiliar, taking the expansive structures of the classical tradition and winding a tale that crosses between known and unknown soundscapes. Popular music reveals its influence in sections of minimalist repetition, chords locking into shape with instrumental layering taking over the developmental banner. Here is an album that takes the listener through vistas of pounding rhythms, serenely intimate melancholy and clashing sound worlds that combine into exciting constellations. Harmonia.
Supported by Koda Kultur