This third release from the new nexTTime production site is a collaboration with multi instrumentalist Alexandru Hegyesi.
This is our second collaboration, and i wanted to use a similar compositional process, build upon previous material, and yet end up with totally different results.
Still, using techniques of electroacoustic music, processing and sound design, i wanted to have more of an immediate feel for this album, to create music that could be played by a live band, and this involved more complex arrangements of instruments as well as electronic sources and samples. There is even some beats programming and percussion, voice samples but mostly, more prominence for sections freely improvised.
This time, as well as receiving a range of recordings from Alex with his wonderful performance on instruments such as dulcimer, gusla, Bavarian zither, prepared chord-harp, psaltery, prepared cymbalum (see album page for an impressive comprehensive list)… i directed some of the playing, or requested pieces in a particular key etc in order to fit in with compositional ideas, harmonically but also texturally, using extended techniques and focusing on sound and grain.
The process of producing and composing this album was much more complex than our first collaboration, and this relied less on digital ‘sculpture’, and instead, focused on layered arrangements of multiple sources.
The result is quite varied and represents many stylistic approaches based around sections of improvised music, including jazz, avant-folk, noise, prog and hopefully, you will find more…
nexttime studio 