binaural ambisonic mix-down of 8-channel fixed media.
high and low frequencies are very prominent - headphones provide an optimal listening experience.
video version available at https://youtu.be/H5GHsMjZz7A

wire splinters and collapses

Suite (2021)
world premiere, recorded at Wigmore Hall, July 2022

Explore Ensemble:
Taylor MacLennon, fl
Alex Roberts, cl
David López Ibáñez, vln
Morag Robertson, vla
Deni Teo, cello
Siwan Rhys, piano/kbd

Nicholas Moroz, audio recording/mixing

full video performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlpdFkvEdLo

co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Explore Ensemble, supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

art: Maria Sibylla Merian — ‘Pineapple and examples of five insects’, from Merian's Drawings of Surinam Insects (1701-5)

Prerecorded sounds utilise three public domain field recordings:
1. Sounds of a pier being demolished near the entrance to the Terminal Island Prison and Deportation Center, Los Angeles, US. Rec. Steven Rowell, 2012.
2. School children sing national anthem in the morning before class in Pokigron, Boven, Suriname. Rec. Gerrit Kalsbeek, 2000.
3. Jarred fruit flies trapped in an empty, unrinsed wine bottle, Tartu, Estonia. Rec. Patrick Tubin McGinley, 2011.

Suite

Performed by Curious Chamber Players at the 2012 Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik.

SOMA Fure

Anna Korsun FOS, performed by The Monochrome Project, recording of the premier performance at the festival Romanische Sommer 2024, Sankt Gereon, Cologne, on 5th June 2024. 

The Monochrome Project:
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Christopher Collings, Mathilde Conley, Mechthild Drop, Lucy Humphris, Markus Schwind, Laura Vukobratović

Anna Korsun, FOS, The Monochrome Project

that i may time transcend,
that a universe my heart may unfold.

my arms and legs rot off and through my blood 
rushed forth;

i am not me. 
i cannot become 
myself

~a series of titles to Takeshi Murakami works, as a poem

premiered 4 november 2024 in paine hall, harvard university

performed by duo XAMP: fanny vicens & jean-ettienne sotty
recorded by jerry macdonald

that we may time transcend | duo xamp (2024)

Polymorphism Records adds to its catalog the latest work by Vanity Productions, the alias of Christian Stadsgaard. The Danish producer, in addition to co-founding Posh Isolation alongside Loke Rahbek, has been involved in other collective projects such as Damien Dubrovnik, with his partner Rahbek, and The Empire Line, alongside two other major names: Iron Sight and Varg.

The Madrid-based label launched in 2019 with a first release by Alcarcia, the label's founder. This was the first installment in a series of four releases, concluding with An Eternity Still, a work that stands as a sonic manifesto on transition, memory, and transformation. Vanity Productions delves into the idea of closing cycles, exploring the tension between nostalgia and the need to move forward. The album captures that fleeting moment when memories cling to the present while the future demands its space. There is something ritualistic in this farewell, like shedding accumulated weight, letting go of what was once cherished to embrace the new, or setting fire to the past without fear of what lies ahead.

Musically, this work expands the artist's characteristic sonic spectrum. Across the album's five tracks, Vanity Productions crafts a sound identity that oscillates between harmonic melancholy, long, sustained chords and evocative vocals that transport the listener to a serene and beautiful space, and the gradual erosion created by accumulating layers that degrade the soundscape.

The composition and creation of An Eternity Still feature contributions from Emma Acs and Malthe Fischer, along with Christian Stadsgaard himself. However, space is also given to two other artists, Ireen Amnes and Farzané, who reinterpret two of the album's tracks with distinct outcomes. Ireen Amnes’ version of Vanishing Point takes on a more unsettling tone than the original, while Farzané’s remix of Slow Oscillating Void suggests that the end of the journey is abrupt, starkly contrasting with the comforting sonic environment crafted by Vanity Productions.

Release date: February 14th, 2025.


Premiere: Vanity Productions - Slow Oscillating Void (Farzané Remix) [Polymorphism Records]

Concordance (2024)

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

vacant lot (strange bird) (2023), for large amplified ensemble
commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain

Live Recording, Klangforum Wien

vacant lot (strange bird) (2023), for large amplified ensemble

Title: given to be heard
Year: 2025
3rd-Order Ambisonics Soundscape

*PLEASE LISTEN WITH HEADPHONES*

given to be heard [binaural soundscape]

It was selected in:
- Mixtur Festival 2017 (Spain)
- FILE Hipersonica 2017 (Brazil)
- III Festival de Música Electroacústica de la Universidad Católica 2017 (Chile) 
- Forum Wallis Ars Electronica 2017 (Switzerland)
- CEMI circles 2017 (USA)
- International Composition Competition Destellos Foundation 2016 (Argentina/France/Belgium/Spain)

Tâches [2016]

Bludenzer Tage zeitmäßiger Musik 2019

Performed by Ensemble Distractfold:
Linda Jankowska
Emma Richards
Alice Purton

Recorded by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

sottilissime

phd fellow in multimedia composition @ brown university
mm royal conservatory of the hague '23

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