Jacob Calland
Jacob’s compositional approach draws on scored improvisation, object sonority (material sound) and eco-acoustics. Pairing imporvisations with field reocordings, as sounds-beds, to respond to, always in dialog, improvising with and agasint himself. Utilising a series of traditional (piano, viol de gamba, accordion) and non-traditional (Metallophone, taught wires, extended technique percussion) instruments. These improvised recordings are then used as material from which to digitally re-compose his work.
Inspired by the works the Wandelweiser group, Murray Schafer, David Toop as well as more contemporary experimental ambient. Jacob approximates soft system interactivity, applying contemporary digital techniques to a style of music and composition with a deeply embedded history in modernist classical music. Jacob creates sonic spaces for which the time bound nature of music is alleviated. Spaces which are meant to be inhabited rather than experienced lineally. Focus is given to the materiality of the ‘Sonic Objects’ chosen, by giving the object sonic space in which to sit undisturbed.
The works create a space in which to exist while contemplating other intangible spaces, which are no less affecting than that of the physical world.
