Paths, by Bjarni Gunnarsson

Paths

by Bjarni Gunnarsson

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1.	Ubieties 11:38	buy track
2.	Mecolico 10:45	buy track
3.	Pulsatiles 08:46	buy track
4.	Verlat 15:04	buy track
5.	Gallivant 06:40	buy track

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Paths consists of five compositions forming a totality of 53 minutes. The music is derived from three multichannel pieces premiered at the Tectonics festival in Reykjavík (2014), the Ephémère series in The Hague (2014) and Présences électronique festival in Paris (2015). These have been further reduced, combined and rearranged resulting in the five compositions found on the album.

We may think of music as navigating between different moments of continuous change. One chooses a starting point and from there tries to reach other positions. The way a contact between these occurs is however always different and depends on the engagement with previous points of encounter. Even very static situations create perceptual illusions of development, producing prolonged and continuous experience. It could be how things change that creates the feeling of time. Perhaps all development is a matter of process, of activity, of change. We have difficulties apprehending what we are but little difficulty experiencing what we do. This behaviour based view is an important aspect of the album that explores previously experienced musical situations, different points of contact, paths through musical material.

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released May 16, 2016

"The album is pocketed with fierce shifts in state – explosions of change that sabotage the idle trundle of time, demolishing gentle blooms of sound to lay the atmosphere to waste all over again. Abstract sound design can be as much a process of destruction as assembly, and Paths manifests as a visceral embrace of this fact. [...] The path is never completely straight, and Gunnarsson uses every bend as an opportunity to smack me in the face, leaping out of the darkness just as I fall into lulls of faux-stillness, leaving me stinging and blinking in bewilderment as he heaves the music through episodes of guttural overhaul. A violently unpredictable record."
ATTN Magazine

"Be prepared for an immersive, highly energetic stream of electro-acoustic sounds: Bjarni Gunnarsson‘s trademark ‘sounds focussing on internal activity and motion. Compositions that put into foreground behaviors, actions, fluid sound structures, fuzzy materials or forms. Music without sharp boundaries’. There are only few moments of rest (like in Pulsatiles) – most of the album is highly dynamic, like travelling at high speed. At véry high speed, not knowing what you might encounter the very next moment! This album is definitely at its best when played at a high volume."
Ambientblog.net

"The music takes a while to comprehend, and even then, one wonders how much is composed and how much is the result of random interface, adopted into composition. Use whatever phrase you prefer: off the beaten path, blazes its own trail, the road less traveled. Gunnarsson’s paths are worth investigating for the sonic discoveries they reveal"
A Closer Listen

"Quite vibrant pieces of computer music with a very classical touch in terms of musique concrete. His pieces bounce up and down and go all over the place, and one never recognize any of the original sound input. [...] It's easy to see how this would work if it would be played on more speakers; leaping up and down, side ways and spinning out of control, even when a piece is quiet, such as 'Pulsatiles'. This is not music to settle down with and keep quiet, but is quite a major tour de force, which needs quite a bit of volume for it's playback.(FdW)"
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Bjarni Gunnarsson The Hague, Netherlands

Icelandic Composer/Developer involved in computer music and algorithmic composition. Performed at Tectonics, Rewire, Today's Art, Sonar and Presences Electroniques. Released on Vertical Form, 3Leaves, Granny, and Tartaruga Records. Faculty member at the Institute of Sonology. Concerned with process-based ideas. Music focused on internal activity, behaviors, fluid sound-structures or forms. ... more

discography

Upics

Jan 2023
Anticlines

Nov 2021
Cendres

Nov 2020
Volume & Void

Sep 2020
Lueur

Nov 2018
Paths

May 2016
Processes & Potentials

Oct 2013
Safn 2006-2009

Jan 2010

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