Dust 4 by Peter Chilvers

Curious Music is pleased to announce Dust 4, a new step in Peter Chilvers’ evolving instrumental series. Informed by nearly two decades creating experimental musical software with Brian Eno, Chilvers seamlessly collages piano improvisation and electronica into an immersive landscape.

Gathering Dust, a 17-minute film featuring Chilvers discussing the series, blending Peter's reflections on Dust 4 and extended passages from the new work.

60-minute album is available alongside a Dolby Atmos mix (available via Apple Music and TIDAL) and a 60-minute companion film, created in 4K resolution to match the album’s immersive scale, premiering on Curious Music’s YouTube channel.

The Dust 4 companion film is a collaboration with filmmaker Dion Johnson, whose work spans international broadcast, documentary, and experimental visual production. Johnson constructs a contemplative, slow-shifting visual field that reflects the evolving nature of the music — spacious, elemental, and structurally unbound. Created in parallel with the album, the film exists not as illustration, but as an aligned spatial response — part of an ongoing environment.

PETER TALKS ABOUT DUST 4

Dust 4 took root in a series of experiments in performing the music of Dust 1-3 live. Rather than creating carbon copies of the original compositions, I was far more interested in abstracting the thoughts, processes and techniques behind them, then using those to improvise new compositions in realtime. I began playing like this while watching Dion Johnson’s beautiful drone footage, and this suggested a natural structure ; the separate pieces began to link together and became an album.

ATMOS DUST

The full Dust series — Dust 1, Dust 2, Dust 3, and now Dust 4 — has been created in Atmos, forming the first fully immersive body of work in the Curious Music catalogue. It reflects a deliberate move toward multi-format listening and viewing as unified practice — where format is not distribution, but part of the composition itself.

DUST 1-3 10" VINYL EPS

Also on September 12th, Curious Music will issue the first physical editions in the Dust series: 10” vinyl EPs of Dust 1, Dust 2, and Dust 3. These beautifully crafted, landmark releases feature artwork by Italian multimedia artist Petulia Mattioli, whose collaborations include work with Alva Noto, Fennesz, Harold Budd, and Toshinori Kondo. Her visual language merges photographic abstraction with elemental texture — a fitting complement to the sound world of Dust.

Pressed on Sea Blue, Green, and Coke Bottle Green vinyl, the EPs will be available individually or as a bundled set. In contrast to the spatial openness of the Dolby Atmos mixes, the vinyl format introduces a new analogue dimension to the Dust series — one of tactility, focus, and warmth — adding depth to the way these works can be experienced and inhabited.

ABOUT PETER CHILVERS

Since 2006, Chilvers has worked as a musical and technical assistant to Brian Eno on projects including the soundtracks to the film ‘The Lovely Bones’ (2008) and video game ‘Spore’ (2008), album collaborations with David Byrne and the Warp releases ‘Small Craft on a Milk Sea’ (2010), ‘Drums Between the Bells’ (2011) and ‘Lux’ (2012). He worked as Assistant Producer on Eno’s 2016 release ‘The Ship’ for which he also helped develop a multi-speaker installation which has been shown in many countries.

As one of the earliest successes when Apple’s App Store debuted in 2008, ‘Bloom’ continues to be fondly remembered. This led in 2018 to a collaboration with Microsoft to produce ‘Bloom: Open World’ – an augmented reality installation shown in Denmark, and ‘Bloom: 10 Worlds’ – a complete reimagining of the app for modern phones and tablets. Eno and Chilvers were also commissioned to create ‘Hypnotised’ – a customised version of ‘Bloom’ for use in Coldplay’s live stadium shows.

Chilvers has toured with Karl Hyde (Underworld) and recorded numerous albums with vocalists Tim Bowness and Sandra O’Neill, as well as several solo instrumental albums. Many of these were released through Burning Shed, the online label he co-founded in 2001 with Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan.

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