Archipelago of Sounds: Re-cycling
This album consists of recordings that spans over almost forty years. What unifies however, is that the entire material consists of solo saxophone and live electronics. Its title Re-cycling entails re-use of existing material, which it is, as it contains surplus material from my solo record Random Rhapsody from 1993. The island pieces series are part of an on-going recording project called Archipelago of Sounds, which is about creating musical works that on the one hand display coherent sounding music, and on the other should individual pieces show a unique sonic identity.
The oldest part, the furious walking bass accompaniment in Re-cycling, was recorded in the early 80s on a Buchla modular synthesizer at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Whereas the rest of the electronic background was made in an Akai S1000 sampler and a Mac sequencer, whilst the saxophone overdub and mixing were made in 1988. Moreover, Autre Cap was originally a commission for the ICMC in Aarhus in 1994, based on a patch made with the Max software that featured score following techniques invented at IRCAM in Paris, which in turn triggered pre-recorded soprano saxophone samples.
The remaining pieces were recorded in 2020 and 2021, where the author plays alto saxophone together with different patches on a Bug Brand modular synthesizer, except Looper Islands that uses an old, and re-cycled Max/MSP patch, and Whereabouts which features an Octatrack sequencer/sampler.
1. Re-Cycling 07:39
2. Sounding Islands 2 02:29
3. Davis Islands 05:46
4. Autre Cap 07:36
5. Sounding Islands 3 05:08
6. Looper Islands 03:39
7. Sounding Islands 1 01:50
8. Whereabouts 04:32
Per Anders Nilsson
Alto, baryton, and soprano saxophones
Bug Brand modular synthesizer, Octatrack, and Max/MSP programming
All compositions by Per Anders Nilsson
Recording engineer and mixing: Per Anders Nilsson
Mastring: Per Anders Nilsson except Björn Asplind on track 2, 6, and 8.
