Inmitten by Kavall

Inmitten - (amidst) 
When a melody becomes a spatially choreographed movement and patterns describe a geometric form in space, the composition itself becomes a physical space for the listener to exist in - amidst the very elements that temporarily become the music.

“Inmitten” (amidst) is born out of the wish to be physically inside the music, and to intuitively create this musical environment with the instrument. Born is a new form of immersive instrument, a spatially playable guitar of independent voices, that transforms what solo guitar can be in all aspects of performing, recording and experiencing the instrument and, above all, transforms me as a composer and a player. 

Spatial Guitar is about this multidimensional experience of being inside the music. The compositions are informed by embodied sensations of listening, like circulating textures or musical pulsing, and by a poetic minimalism of being closely inside the spatially distributed chord voicings and slowly travelling melodies. From the immersive setting of the live performance amidst a hexagon of speakers and audio-reactive lights to the recorded form of this album, the sound of the instrument unfolds in close interaction with its acoustic surroundings and its relation to the listener.

Now that it is here, this is what I always imagined my instrument to sound like.
I hope you enjoy exploring this musical space as much as I do.
Love
Kavall

Kavall would like to thank: 
Brigitte, Iris & Konstantin, Andy Aquarius, Sebastian Völkers, Clemens Matznick, Antonio Cárdenas /Heartfelt Management, Fabian Russ, Ben Lukas Boysen, Johann Muehlthaler, Ines Auerbach, Hannes Teichmann, Michael Rosen, Albert Amerioun, Elvira Akzigitova, Yvonne Hartmann, André Kirsch Fotografie, Videobüro Berlin, Naetverk GmbH, Matthias Erb and Martin Kistner at b-sharp, 
Julius Barg, Marcus Heinicke and everyone at NEUE MEISTER.

Kavall is a composer and performer of immersive contemporary music.
His innovative format 'spatial guitar' expands teh guitar into a spatially playable instrument of independent voices that surrounds the listener.