Manifolds / Octavia, by Jessica Ekomane / Laurel Halo

Manifolds / Octavia

by Jessica Ekomane / Laurel Halo

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• Side A : Jessica Ekomane 'Manifolds'
• Side B : Laurel Halo 'Octavia'

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	1.	Jessica Ekomane - Manifolds 17:28
	2.	Laurel Halo - Octavia 21:18

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Jessica EKOMANE « Manifolds »
Entirely computer-generated, Manifolds is a work that explores the multiple possibilities of polyphonic writing, extending it to the “multiphonic” universe where sources and timbres diffract themselves in the listening space. The different voices of the composition no longer follow the traditional parallel trajectories of musical dialogue, but find themselves propelled as if into a particle accelerator, a “collider” freed from all formal rhetoric to reach a state of liberation of energies that is truly confounding. It is then that, in the multi-layered universe of sonic electrons, as if against its own will, a “chant” of overwhelming humanity is revealed.

Laurel HALO « Octavia » (2022)
Octavia, a piece for piano and electronics, explores the relationship between melodic motifs and textures in a singular way, intermittent moments of melody, harmony and sound materials connecting and disconnecting, to indicate a series of nets or webs, swaying in and out of one another. These sonic nets gently float, spin and merge, and the effect is one of gently floating over an abyss. The work is inspired by the “spiderweb city” of the same name in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities: “Below there is nothing for hundreds of feet: a few clouds glide past; further down you can glimpse the chasm’s bed….Suspended over the abyss, the life of Octavia’s inhabitants is less uncertain than in other cities. They know the net will last only so long.”

— François J. Bonnet, 2023

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released March 1, 2024

Jessica EKOMANE « Manifolds » (2022)
Composed and produced by Jessica Ekomane
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi / Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, May 2023
Photo by Camille Blake / Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley

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Laurel HALO « Octavia » (2022)

Music written and produced by Laurel Halo at INA grm in June 2021 and March 2022
Piano and electronics by Laurel Halo
Guitar by TRUSTFALL
Cello by Leila Bordreuil
Mixed by James Ginzburg
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi / Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, May 2023
Photo by Larissa Hofmann / Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley

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