The Polish composer, sound designer and sound engineer Aleksandra Słyż engaged with cellist Judith Hamann, and saxophonist Gerard Lebik in re-scoring and expanding the potentials of »Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage,« a monumental 26-minute long track off her second album, A Vibrant Touch.
Working to find connections between acoustic and synthetic sounds, the trio elaborated on the rich drone structures of Słyż’s modular synthesizers, exploring the physicality of Hamann and Lebik’s respective instruments through the pressure of a finger on the cello’s string, or the intensity of a breath’s attack in the saxophone.
Their presentation took place within MONOM’s 4DSOUND system, as part of the event Spatial Live x CTM 2023. The recording from this performance was subsequently published as a digital album via Warm Winters (May 2023).
Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage (Live at CTM 2023), by Aleksandra Słyż ft. Judith Hamann, Gerard Lebik
Softness, Flashes, Floating Rage (Live at CTM 2023), by Aleksandra Słyż ft. Judith Hamann, Gerard Lebik