Tag: experimental

Gingko-infused: new compositions

After we told our friend Raoul Bjorkenheim that van garden (aka JJ!) would be studying in Seoul for four months and that we’d all visit him one after another (a plan to keep him from being homesick) Raoul rushed to his album collection and played some of his favourite...

Opera of the Unspoken: Island of Unrest

This experimental jazz opera is a musical investigation into the mysteries of an ancestral tragedy from WWII, as revealed through vocal rituals, ancestral tarot, free jazz and dreaming. With this work I wanted to answer several questions. The first was, what could I do to honour ancestors who were...

Michel Lambert’s Ars Transmutatoria in action

Welcome to Michel’s Ars Transmutatoria virtual museum! You can enter the exhibition space and take a tour of the visual scores at the core of the upcoming music release. As well as inventing this virtual exhibition for you, Michel has created a limited edition boxed set that includes four...

Opera of the Unspoken: the creative process

Perhaps it is logical that after spending some time singing my dreams I find myself carried along by complex ancestral stories. And what is the next logical step when that happens? Over the past year I have been researching different ways to deal with this kind of magical material...