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Everything feels close enough to touch. Breath, scrape, wood, and air press up against one another, revealing sound as something physical. The music unfolds like hands moving across different surfaces, sensitive to pressure, friction, and warmth.
Marja Ahti is a Swedish artist living in Turku, Finland. She works with found sounds, objects, and electronics, creating auditory assemblages that reveal a profound sensitivity to sound’s tactile potential. This record expands her palette to include more recognizable acoustic instrumentation, developed in collaboration with musicians who are already reconfiguring how those instruments can sound.
Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth has its roots in a tape piece first presented at Lampo in Chicago. Ahti later began working with Isak Hedtjärn on clarinet, Ryan Packard on percussion, and My Hellgren on cello at the electronic music studios in Stockholm. Incorporating recordings from those sessions, she presented a new iteration of the work at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024, with the trio performing live while Ahti helmed the mixing desk, spatializing a specially made tape part through the INA GRM’s Acousmonium speaker orchestra. The piece has since undergone several further transformations before arriving at the version presented here on the LP’s B-side, where immense bass pressure and high-frequency tones buffer restless amplified breath and scrape. These sounds fold over themselves with extraordinary dynamics and subterranean activity before giving way to resonant forms and passages marked by ritual intent and a sense of unmistakable beauty.
The A-side is Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth’s gentler double. Still Life with Poppies, Mirror and Two Clouds offers a companion reconfiguration of Ahti’s resynthesized percussion sustain and the same recordings of Hedtjärn and Hellgren from EMS. Here, however, they are nestled in a sonic landscape of calm and restraint that gives them an entirely different character. Ahti also draws on older recordings she made of Sholto Dobie’s DIY pipe organs, using them to create repeating patterns and sliding pitch flourishes that emerge unexpectedly from cycling passages of struck metal, destabilizing electronic interventions, and minimal piano figures.
€32,00
only 5 left
Everything feels close enough to touch. Breath, scrape, wood, and air press up against one another, revealing sound as something physical. The music unfolds like hands moving across different surfaces, sensitive to pressure, friction, and warmth.
Marja Ahti is a Swedish artist living in Turku, Finland. She works with found sounds, objects, and electronics, creating auditory assemblages that reveal a profound sensitivity to sound’s tactile potential. This record expands her palette to include more recognizable acoustic instrumentation, developed in collaboration with musicians who are already reconfiguring how those instruments can sound.
Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth has its roots in a tape piece first presented at Lampo in Chicago. Ahti later began working with Isak Hedtjärn on clarinet, Ryan Packard on percussion, and My Hellgren on cello at the electronic music studios in Stockholm. Incorporating recordings from those sessions, she presented a new iteration of the work at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024, with the trio performing live while Ahti helmed the mixing desk, spatializing a specially made tape part through the INA GRM’s Acousmonium speaker orchestra. The piece has since undergone several further transformations before arriving at the version presented here on the LP’s B-side, where immense bass pressure and high-frequency tones buffer restless amplified breath and scrape. These sounds fold over themselves with extraordinary dynamics and subterranean activity before giving way to resonant forms and passages marked by ritual intent and a sense of unmistakable beauty.
The A-side is Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth’s gentler double. Still Life with Poppies, Mirror and Two Clouds offers a companion reconfiguration of Ahti’s resynthesized percussion sustain and the same recordings of Hedtjärn and Hellgren from EMS. Here, however, they are nestled in a sonic landscape of calm and restraint that gives them an entirely different character. Ahti also draws on older recordings she made of Sholto Dobie’s DIY pipe organs, using them to create repeating patterns and sliding pitch flourishes that emerge unexpectedly from cycling passages of struck metal, destabilizing electronic interventions, and minimal piano figures.
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