Daniel Rossen has proved to be one of the great songwriters of my generation. Someone I’d love to meet someday.
Just bought this album last week, and it’s been a fiery mess of inspiration.
Nocturne - from “Songs For Matthew”
This was made entirely from bowing a cello at home, note by note. I made a map of the chords and harmonies I wanted to build, then bowed everything in a really broken down way. I gave it a few digital treatments (reverb, shimmer, etc…) in Adobe Audition CS5.
Cello was one of the earliest instruments I learned to play, and I quickly dumped it for the piano. Recording on it, after so many years of not playing, felt a lot like reciting the first few words of a language you just started learning, or when you’re desperately trying to remember where you set something down, only a few minutes ago.
This is part of a larger set of compositions, dedicated to a cellist from New York.
New miniature. Sheet music will be available, along with the other songs in “Small Articles”. This song is named after a river in Norse mythology, which separates the world of the ice giants from the world of the gods. Apparently, it never freezes.
Press kit photo, taken by my boyfriend Cody Wilson. The lettering is by my friend Will Elder III.
Here to stay. Really excited for a day of all this music!
Just finished creating this poster, and am really pleased.
This entire album is the most amazing thing I have laid ears on, in years. It’s a collaboration between Ben Frost & Daníel Bjarnason, who are both on the Bedroom Community label. It’s amazing to hear such a successful bridge with a formal composer and an ambient sound artist.
A few instrumentalist friends and myself are undertaking a pop project, here is a demo of something we came up with. Nathan Crockett (violinist of Horse Feathers) and Jessie Dettwiler (cellist of Alameda) are working on some string parts for this, and will be on board as the project evolves.
”…Twenty speakers, entirely powered by the sun, each with their own circuit-board generating a single guitar note. Each loop operates independently, so the compositions produced are endlessly shifting and morphing, all dictated by the lag of time between loops.”
Such an amazing idea. Mind = blown.
