Held Across Parallels explores harmonic structures developed in parallel with one another within sonic spaces of sustained spectral saturation, combining constant harmonic and spectral spaces with perpetually shifting internal components; performed within carefully constructed environments featuring distinct acoustic conditions, delicate high-intensity instrumental performance systems balance chaos and stability.

Hollow Body In Dream and Projection In Oscillation lay out foundational material from which the record’s two larger pieces are constructed; two harmonic frameworks which coexist, yet exert shifting degrees of gravitational pull throughout, resonating in two distinct acoustic environments. Pentagon In Hexagon and Perpetual Flame In Rotation place these core frameworks within compositional structures of non-linear temporal and harmonic expansion and contraction, centred on amplified analog synthesizer and electric guitar respectively where extremes of resonance, volume and spectral density are balanced with an intent to maintain adherence to the imposed structural rigidity.

Recorded at Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm and the Music Research Centre/Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York in spring 2023. Sequences and structures within the pieces were developed at points between 2019 and 2023. 

Mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering

Artwork and design by Matt Zurowski