Recorded at night by candlelight in the Temple of La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, Music for Intersecting Planes captures the immediacy of sound in space.
Cellist Leila Bordreuil and organist Kali Malone dubbed the session back in 2021 when they were given access to the Temple of La Tour-de-Peilz, a chapel with two organs that’s just near Lake Geneva. Malone plays organ and sine tones while Bordreuil plays cello and feedback, leaning in to the building’s natural resonance.
As night fell, they lit candles and began to record, letting the natural ambiance from outside (birdsong, church bells) bleed into the air, focusing their performance to bring out the most disquieting resonances.
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…2025 edition was mastered by Rashad Becker and features a new track ‘Sacrificial Code III’.
The first and only time that Kali Malone sat down for a lesson on the pipe organ, she managed about five minutes at the console before begging her teacher to take her inside the belly of the beast. That desire is borne out in her music: Listening to her expansive, slowly moving compositions, which bristle with dazzling arrays of layered waveforms, you feel like you are not just inside the organ — pressed against its pipes, vibrations coursing through your body, air whisking over your skin — but enveloped in the sound itself. The simplest interval might throb like an outboard engine, every new chord triggering wave after rippling wave of beating effects, vibrations as…
It’s weird, right? We’ve somehow stumbled into a world where, for all we’re told that algorithms homogenise music, actually more people than ever are exposed to very, very odd and abstract soundmaking.
There’s new age gong baths at even the most normie health spas. There’s a kajillion hours of “relaxation music” flooding streaming services from who knows where, a lot of it just drones and/or modulating white noise.
There’s the sound design of scores by the likes of Hildur Guðnadóttir, Daniel Lopatin, Cristobal Tapia De Veer that reach millions in surround sound via movies, games and prestige dramas yet are in their own right sound sculpture on inhuman scale with chasmic voids and nanoscopic…