Music For Intersecting Planes

Description

Music for Intersecting Planes marks the first collaboration between cellist Leila Bordreuil and organist Kali Malone. Minimalist in its execution yet grand in scope, the music unfolds like a string of pearls, punctuated by silences and deep breaths. Rippling currents of air emerge from the hand-pumped organ, enriched by the cello's subtle harmonics to create a microscopic and granular perspective of timbre. Interference swirls through the sound mass as Malone and Bordreuil play over a still background of sine waves. In the distance, church bells chime. Undulating feedback gives rise to insistent calls from the organ before yielding to a tragic cello motif. The album concludes with the brief, jubilant pizzicato exclamation of "Endless Dance of Eternal Joy." Recorded by candlelight at the Temple de Sainte-Théoduée in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, the music strikes a balance between patience and intensity, composition and chance, rigor and tenderness. This collaboration reveals new facets of both artists: Bordreuil's playing, with increased tonal and formal clarity, and Malone's organ work, in its most raw and textured form. Music for Intersecting Planes is a meeting of two minds that pays homage to the timeless fascination evoked by acoustic phenomena.