Deathprod - Sow Your Gold In The White Foliated Earth - VINYL LP
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Sow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth exists first as a curator's fancy - in this casefrom Oslo's Ultima Festival for contemporary music in 2014. The idea was to give reveredNorwegian experimental electronic musician Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, access toseminal avant-garde composer Harry Partch's self-designed, custom-made, specialized,invented instruments - an orchestra tuned to just intonation, using up to 43 intervalsinstead of the standard 12 for the most commonly used Western equal temperament.An artist with a 30+ year career and an uncompromising reputation that reflects theemotional specificity of his uneasy, yet compelling sound, maintained throughout hisexpansive discography, Sten was an intriguing choice for such a project. Although heattended art school, training in electronic music and sound art, he had little experiencewith acoustic instruments and can neither read nor write music notation. Yet he's beenengaged with Partch's music, and outsider art more generally, since he was a teenager.His resulting piece/composition for the project was originally intended only forperformance by Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik, for a series of concerts in fiveEuropean cities between 2015 and 2018. It's Musikfabrik that undertook the painstaking,expensive process of building an entire set of the composer's creations - the second onlyto the originals built by Partch himself. They are the professional musicians and virtuosicinstrumentalists that had to re-train and re-educate on these unknown and experimentalsound sculptures in non-standard tunings. And they house this large, gorgeous physicalinstrumentarium and deal with the enormous logistics of working with it, sometimesshipping the fragile pieces to other locales via semi-trucks or ships.Because of such monumental efforts, Musikfabrik are notoriously guarded withrecordings of the instruments. And rightly so. They
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- GenreDance and electronicDescriptionSow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth exists first as a curator's fancy - in this casefrom Oslo's Ultima Festival for contemporary music in 2014. The idea was to give reveredNorwegian experimental electronic musician Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, access toseminal avant-garde composer Harry Partch's self-designed, custom-made, specialized,invented instruments - an orchestra tuned to just intonation, using up to 43 intervalsinstead of the standard 12 for the most commonly used Western equal temperament.An artist with a 30+ year career and an uncompromising reputation that reflects theemotional specificity of his uneasy, yet compelling sound, maintained throughout hisexpansive discography, Sten was an intriguing choice for such a project. Although heattended art school, training in electronic music and sound art, he had little experiencewith acoustic instruments and can neither read nor write music notation. Yet he's beenengaged with Partch's music, and outsider art more generally, since he was a teenager.His resulting piece/composition for the project was originally intended only forperformance by Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik, for a series of concerts in fiveEuropean cities between 2015 and 2018. It's Musikfabrik that undertook the painstaking,expensive process of building an entire set of the composer's creations - the second onlyto the originals built by Partch himself. They are the professional musicians and virtuosicinstrumentalists that had to re-train and re-educate on these unknown and experimentalsound sculptures in non-standard tunings. And they house this large, gorgeous physicalinstrumentarium and deal with the enormous logistics of working with it, sometimesshipping the fragile pieces to other locales via semi-trucks or ships.Because of such monumental efforts, Musikfabrik are notoriously guarded withrecordings of the instruments. And rightly so. TheyArtistDeathprodTitleSow Your Gold In The White Foliated EarthFormatVINYLLabelSmalltown Supersound
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Sow Your Gold in the White Foliated Earth exists first as a curator's fancy - in this casefrom Oslo's Ultima Festival for contemporary music in 2014. The idea was to give reveredNorwegian experimental electronic musician Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, access toseminal avant-garde composer Harry Partch's self-designed, custom-made, specialized,invented instruments - an orchestra tuned to just intonation, using up to 43 intervalsinstead of the standard 12 for the most commonly used Western equal temperament.An artist with a 30+ year career and an uncompromising reputation that reflects theemotional specificity of his uneasy, yet compelling sound, maintained throughout hisexpansive discography, Sten was an intriguing choice for such a project. Although heattended art school, training in electronic music and sound art, he had little experiencewith acoustic instruments and can neither read nor write music notation. Yet he's beenengaged with Partch's music, and outsider art more generally, since he was a teenager.His resulting piece/composition for the project was originally intended only forperformance by Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik, for a series of concerts in fiveEuropean cities between 2015 and 2018. It's Musikfabrik that undertook the painstaking,expensive process of building an entire set of the composer's creations - the second onlyto the originals built by Partch himself. They are the professional musicians and virtuosicinstrumentalists that had to re-train and re-educate on these unknown and experimentalsound sculptures in non-standard tunings. And they house this large, gorgeous physicalinstrumentarium and deal with the enormous logistics of working with it, sometimesshipping the fragile pieces to other locales via semi-trucks or ships.Because of such monumental efforts, Musikfabrik are notoriously guarded withrecordings of the instruments. And rightly so. They
A composition simply means things being put together. In music, we usually think of composition as a classical idea. But in recent years, the possibilities of what 'composing' can be, have dramatically increased. Based in Oslo, Norway, Deathprod (aka Helge Sten) has been making his own forms of music with no compromise since the early 90s. His specialty is a deeply atmospheric, grainy minimalism that slows time down and explores the very particles of sound itself. This music can sound forbidding and alien at first, but compared to his more brutal output, it's an extraordinarily close and intimate experience. The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019's OCCULTING DISK, Compositions is the result of an intense period at his legendary Audio Virus Lab studio in central Oslo. All tracks are released in chronological order - in other words, the order in which they were recorded. Helge used a personal, unique combination of obsolete digital audio processors and sound generators, combined with his own secret-sauce tuning system. Like gazing at the wonders revealed by an electron microscope with Helge compositional control directs your attention to a succession of ever more spellbinding details and textures.Helge adopted the Deathprod alias in 1991. A complex array of homemade electronics, samplers, sound processing and analogue effects - cumulatively known as the 'Audio Virus' - combined with obsolete samplers and playback devices, to distort and transform sounds into unrecognizable relatives of their former selves. On the new album Compositions, the virus has evolved into even more fascinating and kaleidoscopic new strains. Electronically generated sounds vibrate and tremble like undiscovered metals ringing and resonating together. Sonic forms attract or repel each other as if under the influence of a strange magnetism. None of the tracks are over four minutes, but no
Deathprod, a.k.a. Helge Sten, has been deeply embedded in the Oslo music community for decades, but his brooding soundscapes and deliberate process make him seem sometimes like a phantom. Sten is a founding member of Supersilent, adding his sounds and treatments to the avant jazz leanings of that powerful collective, and he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Biosphere, and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. But Occulting Disk is the first new Deathprod album in 15 years; his attention to detail is next level, and the darkly powerful soundscapes arch and swell like the shifting of the Earth's tectonic plates. Raw, emotional, political and deliberate, this is ambient music with deep intention. Fans of Arca, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Steve Reich, Autechre, Swans, and GAS will all need this record - Deathprod makes some of the most powerful experimental ambient composition of our time. His last LP, Morals and Dogma, from 2004, was listed as one of Pitchfork's top 50 ambient albums of all time. FACT calls Sten the Inchdark ambient master.Inch The New York Times said InchSten loves to summon up thick, often ominous clouds of sound, gesturing at everything from avant-garde composition to black metal without ever quite revealing his hand.Inch Occulting Disk is an anti-fascist ritual. Recorded in Oslo, Reykjavik, Berlin and Los Angeles between 2012 and 2019. Liner notes by Will Oldham. LP cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.
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