In Better Shape Than You Found Me
Dear Friends,
I am honored to announce the fantastic label Elsewhere has released In Better Shape Than You Found Me — a one-hour piece jointly composed and realized by Koen Nutters and myself. It has been released on CD and high quality digital download via the Elsewhere website and Bandcamp page. Some text from the Elsewhere page about the release:
“Sparsely created minimal sounds from various instruments and electronics intersect and move organically in a geometric pattern, linearly or ascendingly, while retaining calmness and a sense of spatial expansion over the subtle presence of field recordings, occasionally hovering at the edge of harmonies or assimilating into silences.”
The work was premiered at KM28 in Berlin in August of this year but we hope to program the piece (at least) in Amsterdam and New York City during the next few months. Please reach out to me if you’d like to hear this piece near your home town. Finally, Koen and I did a Q&A with Yuko Zama — the label’s curator and fantastic album designer — about our collaboration process, approach to harmony and ensemble writing, and the album in general, which has been published here.
For now,
Jordan
Elsewhere018: cover photo by David Sylvain, design by Yuko Zama.