valoración (Any comments)

Available format:
LP:
Ref.: R54773

pvp: 25,00 €

CD:
Ref.: R54774

pvp: 16,50 €


Detailed information:

Following her critically acclaimed album The Sacrificial Code, Swedish-American composer Kali Malone returns with Living Torch on Portraits GRM.

Living Torch, through its unique structural form and harmonic material, is a bold continuation of Kali Malone’s demanding and exciting body of work, while opening new perspectives and increasing the emotional potential of the music tenfold. As such, Living Torch is a major new piece by the composer and adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire.

Departing from the pipe organ that Malone’s music is most notable for, Living Torch features a complex electroacoustic ensemble. Leafing through recordings from conventional instruments like the trombone and bass clarinet to more experimental machines like the boîte à bourdon, passing through sinewave generators and Éliane Radigue’s ARP 2500 synthesizer. Living Torch weaves its own history, its own genealogy, and that of its author. It extends her robust structural approach to a liberated palette of timbre.

Living Torch was initially commissioned by GRM for its legendary loudspeaker orchestra, the Acousmonium, and premiered in its complete multichannel form at the Grand Auditorium of Radio France in a concert entirely dedicated to the artist.

Composed at GRM studios in Paris between 2020-2021, Living Torch is a work of great intensity, an œuvre-monde that is singularly placed at the crossroads of instrumental writing and electroacoustic composition. Living Torch proceeds from multiple lineages, including early modern music, American minimalism, and musique concrète. It’s a work as much turned towards exploring justly tuned harmony and canonic structures as towards the polyphony of unique timbres, the scaling of dynamic range, and the revelation of sound qualities.

GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales), the pioneering institution of electroacoustic, acousmatic, and musique concrète, has been a unique laboratory for sonorous research since 1958. Witnessing the extreme vitality of the music championed by GRM, the Portraits GRM record series extends and expands this momentum with Kali Malone’s Living Torch.

Biography:

The compositions of Kali Malone implement specific tuning systems in minimalist form for pipe organ, choir, chamber music ensembles, and electroacoustic formats. Malone’s music is rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations. The music emits distinct emotive, dynamic, and affective hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus.

Kali Malone has performed extensively in Europe and North America at Musica Festival, Berlin Atonal, Moogfest, Kanal Pompidou, Elbphilharmonie, Paris Philharmonie, and Radio France.

Her commission projects and residencies include the INA GRM, The Richard Thomas Foundation, MACBA, Macadam Ensemble, Orgelpark, Elektronmusikstudion and Tempo Reale. She collaborates and performs with various artists, including Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, Frederikke Hoffmeier, Leila Bordreuil, Drew McDowall, Caterina Barbieri, and Ellen Arkbro. In 2016 she co-founded the record label and concert series XKatedral, together with Maria W Horn, in Stockholm.



Tracklist

LIVING TORCH :


Another records of KALI MALONE

  • KALI MALONE

    THE SACRIFICIAL CODE

    IDEOLOGIC ORGAN

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 11, 2025
    • CD (Ref.: R55412): 18.0 €
    • DOBLE LP (Ref.: R55411): 37.0 €
  • KALI MALONE

    ALL LIFE LONG

    SACRED BONES

    • RELEASE: Feb. 9, 2024
    • DOBLE LP (Ref.: R55013): 36.0 €
    • CD (Ref.: R55014): 18.0 €
  • KALI MALONE

    LIVING TORCH

    PORTRAITS GRM

    • RELEASE: Feb. 26, 2023
    • LP (Ref.: R54773): 25.0 €
    • CD (Ref.: R54774): 16.5 €
  • KALI MALONE

    DOES SPRING HIDE ITS JOY

    IDEOLOGIC ORGAN

    • RELEASE: Feb. 18, 2023
    • TRIPLE CD (Ref.: R54728): 28.0 €

Another records of Ambient

  • NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 16, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55415): 25.0 €
  • LAWRENCE ENGLISH

    Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds

    ROOM 40

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 20, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55406): 29.5 €
  • GAVIN BRYARS-JOHN ADAMS-CHISTOPHER HOBBS

    ENSEMBLE PIECE

    DIALOGO

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 3, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55396): 29.0 €
  • JOHN WHITE-GAVIN BRYARS

    MACHINE MUSIC

    DIALOGO

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 3, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55395): 29.0 €
  • GAVIN BRYARS-TOM PHILLIPS

    IRMA

    DIALOGO

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 3, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55397): 29.0 €

more records of Ambient


Another records of Sound explorers - Experimental

  • HOLGER CZUKAY

    GVOON-BRENNUNG 1

    GRÖNLAND

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 16, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55414): 24.5 €
    • CD (Ref.: R55413): 16.9 €
  • LAWRENCE ENGLISH

    Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds

    ROOM 40

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 20, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55406): 29.5 €
  • SCANNER & GEINS´T NAÏT

    VITIO

    OFFEN MUSIC

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 3, 2025
    • CD (Ref.: R55400): 16.8 €
  • GOLEM MECANIQUE

    SIAMO TUTTI IN PERICOLO

    IDEOLOGIC ORGAN

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 3, 2025
    • LP (Ref.: R55404): 29.5 €
  • PAUL SCHÜTZE

    DEUS EX MACHINA

    KONTAKT AUDIO

    NEW RELEASE!!

    • RELEASE: April 3, 2025
    • DOBLE LP (Ref.: R55409): 34.0 €

more records of Sound explorers - Experimental


This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

accept more information