Aurora Records proudly presents Temporal Gardening, featuring composer and performer Stephan Meidell and the baroque ensemble Bergen Barokk. The new album will be available on vinyl and digital platforms on 15th of September 2023.
Temporal Gardening was originally a commission written in 2020 for Bergen Barokk. The idea was to explore using early music instrumentation in dialogue with new electro-acoustic technology. The unique and remarkable ecology grew from pseudo-baroque music playfully reimagined, reinterpreted, disassembled, remixed, and resampled.
The trio has been expanded with drums, functioning as speakers for the electronic manipulations of the ensemble. A double-bass recorder vibrates a sub-woofer speaker mounted inside a bass drum, and a live sampled harpsichord sounds through cymbals, gongs, and a snare drum. Meidell himself part takes as a musician in the performance, doing live sampling and electronic contributions.
credits
released September 15, 2023
Bergen Barokk:
Jostein Gundersen—Tenor and Sub Contra Bass recorder
Siri Hilmen—Baroque cello
Hans Knut Sveen—Harpsichord
Stephan Meidell: Live sampling and electronics
Recorded by: Stephan Meidell with help from Davide Bertolini
at the Grieg Academy, in 2022
Composed and mixed by: Stephan Meidell at Kakofon Studio, Bergen
Mastered by: Rashad Becker at Clunk, Berlin
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, The Audio and Visual Fund, Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Bergen Kommune
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