Kadet’s most collaborative album release to date, Gradient Wake is slight shift in direction with many points of inspiration. Her background playing jazz guitar and listening to minimal composers is at the root, with particular influence by artists Chicago Underground Quartet, The Necks and Steve Reich. This album also reflects freshly formed, integrated relationships with the contributing musicians as well as her new family triad. Spontaneous, improvised participation in which art and life are mirrors of one another. Exploration, exchange and release - punctuated by the processes of actualizations where the subjective existence continuously shapes and reshapes itself as it interrelates with others. A couple of the compositions on Gradient Wake were not only inspired by witnessing the birth of her son, they were also directly motivated by Kadet’s passion for the moving image; Distill, Quantum Tunneling and Fight or Flight were composed for videos by Kadet, Intervallic was composed for a Super 8 film by Paul Clipson and Rite of Passage was scored to a video by Krystof Pesek. 

Intervallic 
Composed by Kadet. Clarinet by Giselle Eastman. Percussion and vibraphone by Suki O’Kane.

Quantum Tunneling 
Remixed and Composed by Kadet. Original music by Christopher Willits. Sampled from the album Tiger Flower Circle Sun (2010, Ghostly International). Published by Overlap Music (ASCAP).

Prelap 
Composed by Kadet. Vibraphone by Suki O’Kane. Contributing sounds by Kent Jolly & Jonathon Ganzmann.

Glacial 
Composed by Kadet

Distill 
Composed by Kadet. Contributing sounds by Christopher Eickmann & Jordain Wallace.

Rite of Passage 
Composed by Kadet. Percussion by Suki O’Kane. Clarinet by Giselle Eastman. Contributing sounds by Hilary Reed.

Fight or Flight 
Composed by Kadet

Gradient Wake was mastered by Ryan Kleeman using a combination of Analog and Digital processing. Each song was mixed through a Neve 8816 summing amplifier and processed with a Neve Portico II Master Buss Processor as a first stage of mastering. Digital equalizers and limiters were then used as a final stage of mastering to tonally and dynamically optimize the content. Prelap, Intervallic and Rite of Passage were recorded by Richard Barley and Abhimanyu Mullick. Extra special thanks to Hilary Reed, Haven Maxwell, Julien Ottavi/APO33 and all the artists that added their remarkable talent to these tracks.


05 Distill

04 Glacial

03 Prelap

02 Quantum Tunneling

01 Intervallic

c & p Kadet Kuhne 2020. Composed by Kadet, with Edward J. Avila and Gabe Ente. Mastered by Kadet Kuhne. Photography by Mackenzie Mathis and Juvenal Cisneros. Album art by Louanne Ponder. Thanks to David Dean, Skinner, Beth Ahlstrand, Jeff Cain, Ryan Andersen, and Carson Beker.

Sedimentary Noise is the soundtrack from the film "Sedimentary Noise," directed by Kadet Kuhne. Touching on the the power and limits of the will, and relationship of mind and body, "Sedimentary Noise" references Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, in which the central character sinks deeper and deeper into a mound of earth. In Kadet's film, the subject is being slowly buried in sand within a tall transparent cylinder, layer by layer, shielded from suffocation by a gas mask. As with Beckett’s character, there is an acceptance of this predicament - an allegory for the ways in which humans endure and persist through daily challenges, a mediated existence and the encroaching sands of time.