Troels and Peter have worked together on multiple film and sound projects over the years, but it was in 2016 during a commissioned concert for the Copenhagen Architecture Festival that they formed their current collaboration - Thingpower.
In Thingpower, sounds are felt and voices, music, and ambient life fuse to tell an intimate story. It's a living project challenging the basic structure of how we experience sounds and engage in music-making. Each track turns sounds into dynamic entities that touch, reshape and move with a life of their own.
This first release on Metalabel is available for pre-order, which funds:
World-renowned soprano Else Torp and cellist Maria Isabel Edlund join Troels and Peter in the studio on their almost decade-long creative journey as they continue to explore the question, "How can we create something boundless?"
Here are some pics we snapped during our week of recording at Grapehouse Studios in Copenhagen. Enjoy :)
With THING001 we think musically about sound and use sound as instruments. How can we craft sounds that inspire a fresh perspective on our world’s multiplicity, breaking out from repetitive loop-based thinking?
THING001 is dynamic, featuring moments of silence then shifting to harsh, deep bass noises. It oscillates. You become more aware. Now, you're really listening. And hear that there's no grid, no tempo. Sound becomes music and music becomes sound - a deliberate antithesis to conventional music.
Can THING001 be a tool to prepare for the increasing unpredictability of nature, to train our listening—an underused skill in a world full of distractions?
'Listening takes time. Everyone hears everything all the time but listening takes time.'
Category | Music |
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Release Date | 21 August 2024 |
Catalog Number | THING001 |