This is really nice, and it reminds me of several other examples of playful approaches to pipe organs, like Leonardo Barbadoro’s LP, Pierre Bastien, Horst Rickels. Jonas Olesen, Anders Lauge Meldgaard and Sandra Boss, three Danish composers and musicians collectively made compositions for unconventional pipe organs. On three mobile, midified and modified pipe organs,the trio has constructed a musical universe inhabited by animals, humans and machines.

SOL OP is based upon an exploration of the organs’ more alternative sonic features. Incorporating the full instrument in the compositions – including the airblower system and the mechanical artefacts of the organ – new rhythmic features appear. Furthermore, MIDI-control and alternative playing techniques have been used in combination in order to present surprising timbres and tonal structures.

With this collective composition, the trio’s goal has been to explore an iconic instrument, such as the organ, within a new and free frame. As the organs are small and mobile, they have been detached from the church room, and thereby also from their traditional cultural connotations, which has created a new creative space for composition.

Tracks

A.

1. Sol Op 03:59
2. Fuglene 04:45
3. Vindene 04:53

B.
4. Skovene 04:00
5. Maskinerne 03:27
6. Sol ned 04:57