ambient likely lucid

The image I had in mind while writing the piece was of an undefined individual walking along a border. This border divided two realities. Which of the two will be the right one?

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Along the Boundary

Max Richter - Shadow Journal (L'exhalation Edit)

Flight from the City (Four Hands)

From my fourth solo album and first EP, self-released under Creative Commons license and can be free downloaded here: http://www.archive.org/details/AMomentOfStillness or here: http://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-of-stillness

Billions And Billions

'We Move Lightly' Taken from Dustin O'Halloran's 'Lumiere'

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Glassworks Opening, composed by Philip Glass in 1982.

The original is piano solo. I try to play it with an additional Farfisa sound, and some heavily modulated synth choirs during the "chorus" inspired by his opera sound. I also played it just once, it's supposed to be repeated 3 times.

Live video: http://youtu.be/Ziq7mUNni1c

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sampled  Yamaha C7 grand piano, a simulated Farfisa organ, and modulated synth choirs.

Updated with a better take on July 4th, 2014.

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Philip Glass - Glassworks Opening [piano + Farfisa + modulated choirs]

Piano 1

Taken from their forthcoming mini-album 'Ellis' out July 8 on Erased Tapes.

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For the first half of the twentieth century, Ellis Island stood as the gateway to America. For some twelve million people, it was their first encounter with the land they hoped to call home. 

Directed by acclaimed artist JR, ELLIS tells the story of one such migrant. Starring Robert De Niro, the film winds its way through the crumbling hallways of the abandoned Ellis Island hospital complex, now home to JR’s Unframed art installation. It’s a place that reverberates with the hopes and fears of those who passed through it, the echoes especially resonant today.

Entwined with the narrative is a score composed by Woodkid, performed and co-written by Nils Frahm. The delicate piano motifs of Winter Morning I culminate in a crescendo of strings, while the harmonium swells on the B-side are the foundation for De Niro’s narration: an encomium for those who shaped modern America. 

There’s perhaps never been a more fitting time for this story, with all the proceeds going to the Sea Watch initiative, a non-profit charity dedicated to the protection and rescue of civilian refugees. 

Following a screening as part of Nils’s Barbican Weekender, the ELLIS score will be out July 8th, the same week as America’s great federal holiday. It will be available via Erased Tapes as a mini album on CD, vinyl and in digital format containing a 12-page picture booklet.


IN THE ARTISTS’ OWN WORDS:

Nils Frahm: ‘The opportunity to work on JR´s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.

A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is ‘Winter Morning II,’ the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.

Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.’

Yoann Lemoine, aka Woodkid:  ‘Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.

I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.

After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.

Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.’

Ellis

Winter Morning I

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Joep Beving - Ab Ovo

Live recording of Jóhann Jóhannsson performing on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic (2/7/12)  
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Jóhann Jóhannsson - Flight From the City (Live on KCRW)

Max Richter - Horizon Variations

Max Richter - Written on the Sky

Thomas Newman - Any other name

My Absynth version of Brian Eno - An Ending Ascent. This was all done using Absynth's envelopes.

Brian Eno -  "An Ending (Ascent)"

Dís

Já, Hemmi Minn (From „Dís“ Soundtrack)

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Max Richter - Horizon Variations

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