Trying to write and upload bits and pieces, at least once a month in 2025.

Twin Beak

Jamming with piano loops taken from ‘Open Again Eventually’ (from my 2020 EP Bird Rib). 

fugue state

Trying out some different ambient ideas for this piece.... the first one is a location recording from a tube station, with a saxophone busker. not sure about the potential, so I'm posting it here for honest feedback

[Feather Hammer] demo 1 Apology (with subway)

Here's the Clearspot show that was broadcast on Resonance104.4fm on the 16th of September.

Composer/producer Leah Kardos plays tracks from her latest album “Feather Hammer” and talks about her creative processes, sharing the stories behind the pieces. Feather Hammer will be released online from the 19th of September, and premiering as a live performance on the 25th of November in London.

http://music.leahkardos.com
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/135477

Resonance 104.4fm Clearspot 16/09/2011 - Leah Kardos presents Feather Hammer

Alternative version of a little piece inspired by the really quiet piano solo in Michael Jackson's 'Stranger in Moscow'. Free to download x

Novice (Moscow Mix) - free download

"The Unknown Celebrity" by Sean Redmond & Leah Kardos

In the Unknown Celebrity, a 1:1 replica of a ‘devoted’ fan’s bedroom becomes the gallery space. The room has a rug, a bed, dressing table and lamp. The walls are golden and red curtains fall down the central wall, where a celebrity shrine is worshipped. Personal items are found in the room: each adorned with the image of the unknown celebrity. Original music plays from a series of discrete speakers. At the centre of the bedroom is the celebrity ‘shrine’ comprised of candles, a large central photograph of the unknown celebrity, and a plinth with a bell jar containing a treasured celebrity memento.

The celebrity figure found in the room is a composite unknown: a non-descript everybody, but whose ideal face has been created through a software app that renders it by the regeneration of several male and female iconic celebrities in currency today.  All the celebrity memorabilia found in the room will have this uncanny face, this nobody’s name, adorning it. The room, the shrine, will worship this unknown celebrity: this model citizen. Of course, the person whose room it is, is the one and same unknown celebrity who is being worshipped– a haunting mirror on their own invisibility and hungriness to be noticed. Their self-adoring room guarantees them the ubiquity of model citizenship.

The four separate components of the unknown celebrity’s soundscape are designed to be experienced in various locations within the constructed environment. The sonic scenes are haunted by timbres of embedded musical memory, experience and emotion. All compositions are set to a tempo of 60BPM.
Mirror (9’20") plays with repetition, feedback, texture, mimicry and multiplicity of a single voice. Memory (8’17”) uses the aesthetics of vaporwave, ambient trip hop and broken tape effects. Shrine (21’08”) is a collage of original vocal recordings, reversed, resampled and stretched. Sleep (10'32”) is an extended version of a piece originally released on the album Machines (2012), and includes cello parts performed by Catherine Saumarez.

Model Emotions - Sleep

Model Emotions - Memory

Model Emotions - Mirror

"The Unknown Celebrity" by Sean Redmond & Leah Kardos

In the Unknown Celebrity, a 1:1 replica of a ‘devoted’ fan’s bedroom becomes the gallery space. The room has a rug, a bed, dressing table and lamp. The walls are golden and red curtains fall down the central wall, where a celebrity shrine is worshipped. Personal items are found in the room: each adorned with the image of the unknown celebrity. Original music plays from a series of discrete speakers. At the centre of the bedroom is the celebrity ‘shrine’ comprised of candles, a large central photograph of the unknown celebrity, and a plinth with a bell jar containing a treasured celebrity memento.

The celebrity figure found in the room is a composite unknown: a non-descript everybody, but whose ideal face has been created through a software app that renders it by the regeneration of several male and female iconic celebrities in currency today.  All the celebrity memorabilia found in the room will have this uncanny face, this nobody’s name, adorning it. The room, the shrine, will worship this unknown celebrity: this model citizen. Of course, the person whose room it is, is the one and same unknown celebrity who is being worshipped– a haunting mirror on their own invisibility and hungriness to be noticed. Their self-adoring room guarantees them the ubiquity of model citizenship.

The four separate components of the unknown celebrity’s soundscape are designed to be experienced in various locations within the constructed environment. The sonic scenes are haunted by timbres of embedded musical memory, experience and emotion. All compositions are set to a tempo of 60BPM.

Mirror (9’20") plays with repetition, feedback, texture, mimicry and multiplicity of a single voice. Memory (8’17”) uses the aesthetics of vaporwave, ambient trip hop and broken tape effects. Shrine (21’08”) is a collage of original vocal recordings, reversed, resampled and stretched. Sleep (10'32”) is an extended version of a piece originally released on the album Machines (2012), and includes cello parts performed by Catherine Saumarez.

Model Emotions - Shrine

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Featuring Ben Dawson on piano, Lara James on saxophones and Paul Glover on Drums
Track 3 from my new EP Bird Rib - out now 
https://smarturl.it/LK-BirdRib

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