Claustrum by innomi
This EP was made from the 17 of February to the 29 of March of 2018, it is based on the concept of sacred music, to be perfectly clear about what I mean by that I’ll have to say that I am not religious or spiritual in any way, and that musically, this draws no inspiration and mostly bears no resemblance to musical forms considered to be sacred throughout cultures and historical periods.
Rather, I thought about what I interpret sacred music is able to and should ellicit, and I tried achieving that in my own terms.
One characteristic I thought about while doing so is of trying to accomplish that not through oppulence and grandiosity, but by subtetly.
Another principles I set as a guidance were clarity and transparence, which was done also as a reflection of my previous work, which I tend to dislike as time moves on, and one reason why I feel that is is because of how unclear my ideas and their execution were.
And while this was not done consciously, I grew tired of traditional measures, so you will hear a fair amount of odd meters in this small body of work.
The second piece is in a hypermeter of 17/4, and on the final piece you will hear 21/8 on the first part, then on the second part a meter of additive 15/8 and 3/4 are superimposed and on the third and fourth parts you will hear various simultaneous rhytmic patterns, with the difference that on the third part they follow a same meter, but on the final part they each have their own tempo. Those are the ones I can remember as I write this.
As a musician I feel this is the best thing I’ve done so far, and I am glad to be able to finally make another body of work of considerable proportions, last time having done so with my debut album. I would wish that from now on this would be my introduction to listeners. I think that it is only natural for an artist to always be non conforming with their own work, and to always be striving to be better than themselves.
I think that is it, I recommend listening to it through headphones, I hope you enjoy.
Thank you.
Tracklist
| 1. | Firmamentum | 4:36 |
| 2. | Corporis | 4:44 |
| 3. | Lineae | 7:26 |
| 4. | Scripturam | 15:02 |
