Immeasurable Traces

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2005-02-20

Label: Phono Suecia

Rama (1998), for mixed choir & electronic sounds.
Kairos (1999), for tape.
Kronos (2000), for 5 voices & electronic sounds.
Saxplock (2001), for bass saxophone and tape.
Ebb (2002) for alto saxophone and tape.
Tide (2002), for soprano saxophone and tape.

Recorded at Studio 2, Radiohuset 7 October 2003 (1, 4-6), The Engelbrekt Church Stockholm, 26 May 2004 (3).

Sleeve Notes:
“My art lies in a borderland between pictorial art and music – where the images are missing”. Rolf Enström composes electroacoustic music, often combining it with voices, instruments or images. Some of his works are classics of contemporary Swedish music: Slutförbannelser and Tjidtjag och Tjidtjaggaise.

One of the works presented on this CD is "Music for an observatory" which was commissioned for Stockholms Observatorium’s 250th anniversary 2003. Rolf Enström’s describes a night-time experience in New Zealand in 1988: “I got out of the car and turned my face upwards. When I saw the amazingly rich firmament I had what you may call a shock. The experience still lives inside me and it is only now, in retrospect, that I understand that it is that experience I managed to transform into sounds in a passage in "Observatoriemusik".

DSD layer: stereo and 5.1 surround versions.