Gyttjans Topografi, by Mats Erlandsson

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1.	Oxidationstabell för Hytta A 12:44		buy track
2.	Törnar 15:21	info	buy track
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The music on this recording is performed by a kind of fictitious chamber ensemble situated in an imaginary room outlined by textures that alternate between gestural foreground and passive landscape.
The three pieces contained within this release are tied together by sharing similar harmonic material and instrumentation and could ideally be perceived as parts of one long performance stretching through the two sides of the record. The textural room in which this musical performance operates is unreliable, unstable, constantly shifting in size and activity from sparse and open to dense and claustrophobic.

Inside this non-euclidean performance space a chamber ensemble made up of zithers expanded through analog tape transposition, harmonium and organ, double bass, digital FM, feedback-convolution and Serge modular synthesizer perform a music made from justly tuned intervals arranged in a way that blurs the distinction between traditional minor and major tonal harmony in favor of harmonic progression within an essentially modal framework.

In terms of the material used to make these pieces, essentially all non-harmonic sounds are contaminated field-recordings. They have gone through a sort of feedback process between digital and analog, or acoustic, processing where field-recorded material has been edited, processed and re-amplified and recorded again in acoustic spaces that shape the character of the material and imprint acoustic identities on the recordings. The tonal instruments were treated in a process analogous to this - harmonic material built from recordings and digitally generated synthesis was recorded, transcribed, rearranged and overdubbed again with additional electronic or acoustic instruments to form a composite electroacoustic instrumental sound.

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released March 16, 2023

Composed and engineered by Mats Erlandsson
Mats Erlandsson - zither, harmonium, organ, contaminated field recordings, percussion, analog and digital synthesis
Yair Elazar Glotman - double bass on Törnar

Mastered by Johannes Ahlberg at Saintpid Mastering
Sleeve design by Stephen F. O’Malley

The foundational elements of this music was originally composed for the dance performance Unfortunate Desires by Erik Berg
The centerfold image is a reproduction of the painting Storm och känsla by Petter Nilsson

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