EK001: Expanse by Stefan Goldmann
EDITION KYMATA 001
For its first publication, Edition Kymata has commissioned a five-part long-form work from Stefan Goldmann. This exposé to an incorporeal spatial structure captures infinite reverb responses to five carefully designed immersive spaces.
Building on his earlier reverb-only work 'Call and Response' (2022), the capacity of reverberation to enable the experience of impossible architecture is further explored – possibly in its clearest form to date. The five zones of intangible aural sensibility compiled in this box set range from soothing to menacing, inviting to a unique critical listening situation in which the listener's perception is the dynamic side of the exchange while the stimulus persists in profound permanence.
The properties of the five enclosures – boundless in the time domain, distinct in their spatial characteristics – reveal themselves completely and can be precisely described in statistical data, allowing for multiple levels of access: a brief visit, long-term contemplation, exclusive ownership.
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Credits
Written & produced by Stefan Goldmann.
CHAIN DLK (IT) 'Akin to wandering through an architectural masterpiece with no clear exit—a beautiful, disorienting labyrinth of sound.'
REVUE & CORIGÉE (FR). 'It's not quite an album, but an experience that Stefan Goldmann offers. [...] Placed end to end, the pieces form an inexhaustible wave that cuts you off from the world, transporting you wherever it seems, or seems to you, and whoever is alike becomes together: Stefan Goldmann's music ends up becoming yours. Here you are, as if torn from the world, plunged into a supposedly infinite expansion, between black hole and reality, between what we see and what is still foreign to us.' (Laurent Nerzig)
MUSIC MAP (IT). 'Hours of air, literally.'
