## Living Torch - Artist(s): [[Kali Malone]] - Release Year: [[2022]] - Ostensible or actual genres: [[electronic]], [[experimental]], [[minimalist]], [[modern classical]] - [Bandcamp Link](https://kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/living-torch) Notes: #album #👍 %% ## Tracks: | No. | Title | Featuring | Notes | | --- | ----- | --------- | ----- | | | | | | %% ## Bandcamp Copy > Living Torch, through its unique structural form and harmonic material, is a bold continuation of Kali Malone’s demanding and exciting body of work, while opening new perspectives and increasing the emotional potential of the music tenfold. As such, Living Torch is a major new piece by the composer and adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire. > > Departing from the pipe organ that Malone’s music is most notable for, Living Torch features a complex electroacoustic ensemble. Leafing through recordings from conventional instruments like the trombone and bass clarinet to more experimental machines like the boîte à bourdon, passing through sinewave generators and Éliane Radigue’s ARP 2500 synthesizer. Living Torch weaves its own history, its own genealogy, and that of its author. It extends her robust structural approach to a liberated palette of timbre. > > Living Torch was initially commissioned by GRM for its legendary loudspeaker orchestra, the Acousmonium, and premiered in its complete multichannel form at the Grand Auditorium of Radio France in a concert entirely dedicated to the artist. > > Composed at GRM studios in Paris between 2020-2021, Living Torch is a work of great intensity, an oeuvre-monde that is singularly...  more > > ### credits > > released July 7, 2022 > > Composed & Produced by Kali Malone at INA GRM 2020-2021 > Trombone & Bass Clarinet recorded at EMS Elektronmusikstudion 2020 > > Pre-mastered by Emmanuel Richier at INA GRM > Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering > Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin. > > Photograph by Estelle Hanania Painting by Ross Caliendo Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley Trombone: Mats Äleklint Bass Clarinet: Isak Hedtjärn ARP 2500, Modular Synthesis, Pura Data & Boîte à Bourdons: Kali Malone