Daniel Derakhshan, composer and sound designer
Babak Kouhestani, violin

Flying In Water

A stereo version of the "Saturn" piece.

"Saturn" is an 8-channel electroacoustic piece. composed through exploring micro sound and particle behaviors in space.

Saturn

Belgian composer and sound artist Adriaan Swerts announces the release of his debut full-length album One in collaboration with piano and coffee records – a collection of twelve deeply personal compositions that, originally, were not conceived with the idea of ever getting released but that, like shards of ice, slowly floated together and formed an island of music.

Both a life-threatening accident – which caused his disability –and the passing of his grandfather confronted Adriaan with the fragility of life. Thematically, this album deals with the eternal, life fading away, death, and the afterlife. At the same time, it attempts to celebrate the beauty of love, life, nature and all that lives on earth.

The characteristic sounds on this album are field recordings of natural landscapes Adriaan visited, which he transformed into instruments and used almost solely to compose. The piano and other acoustic instruments such as the harmonium and strings, as old but not forgotten classical friends, are the other elements that accompany these transformed natural sounds. Icelandic glaciers, geysers, Scottish lochs, waterfalls, oceans and more all found a home on this album. In addition, Swerts uses reel-to-reel tape processing to degrade the sound of the recordings and make them sound broken – a reflection of what his body feels like.

The artwork of the album similarly reflects Adriaan's focus on the theme of the fragility of life and nature. The cracks in the ice symbolise how easily something can be broken into pieces – just like what happened to his body after his accident – but can still be a whole. In addition, Adriaan crafted a videoclip for each piece of the album through the process of cymatics – the study of visible sound vibration and the transformational nature of sound and matter. He filmed the sound vibrations caused by his music in water, unveiling beautiful and unique geometric patterns for each composition.

One comes out digitally and on limited edition CD on the 28th of October, featuring artwork and design by Celia Bayo.

Purchase

Adriaan Swerts - Distant Overtones

Adriaan Swerts - Fade

Adriaan Swerts - Sleeping Mountains

Marks of Existence

Go Deep

Afterglow

05 _Walk_

Messy lattice is a work composed in such an uncertain epoch. The year 2020 is different for the  whole of humanity as for me. We see how people are impatient for getting back to “normal.”  Therefore, I felt the spirit of Autumn and its grief more than every year. The only thing that I could  be definite about is that there will be Winter that can be more chirpy. Another hand, chaos is  always interesting to me. Chaos is something that entangled by order. However, here I attempted  to get closer to being “messy.”

(This piece premiered on 21st December 2020 in Spectro Centre for New Music's event: Yalda Electroacoustic Music Marathon Vol.1)

Messy Lattice

Piano for Computers, an excerpt from the upcoming audiovisual set.

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Sohrab Motabar (1984) is a composer from Tehran. With regards to states of suspension and dazzled motion his music resonates like a maze for the listener. He composes with algorithms, chaotic functions and non-standard synthesized sounds as a way to give rise to obscured dimensions and experimental modes of perceiving and listening. In 2018, Motabar graduated from the Institute of Sonology. In addition to this study he also actively collaborates in select projects with other artists and musicians.

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