DLB2305
three_four_maybe (composed 2020-21, recorded 2023)
for 3 musicians: midi controllers, prepared piano, 24 solenoids, 3 LED panels

When I was a child, before I started writing my own music, I used to write short stories. My poor handwriting made it difficult for others to read, and we didn’t have a computer at home at the time. So my parents got me a typewriter for my birthday. I loved it so much. Ideas would just flow, from my mind, into printed paper. What I liked the most about the typewriter was the sound that it made. And how each word would become music as it got typed. It was an electric typewriter, so there was a little bit of delay between my key presses and the actual sound. I learnt how to work around it and I would type faster or slower in order to queue up characters and hear certain rhythms I had in my head. So that electric typewriter was, in a way, my first sequencer.
I see the grand piano in “three_four_maybe” a bit like a giant typewriter that makes the most amazing sounds. Sounds...  more
credits
released May 12, 2023

Music by Xavier Bonfill
Text quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
Solenoid stands setup design by Lorenzo Colombo

Producer, midi recording, mixing: Xavier Bonfill
Audio recording, mastering: Mikael Tobias
Cover Artwork: Antonio Martinez

Performed by NEKO3: Kalle Hakosalo, Fei Nie, Lorenzo Colombo

With kind support from KODAs Cultural Funds & DMF / Gramex Collective Funds

three_four_maybe

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Tired of Turtling (Indie Pop)

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