Daniel M Karlsson - Towards a Music for Large Ensemble LP

Daniel M Karlsson is a long standing fixture of Stockholm’s experimental electronic music scene. He’s been an important part of its key infrastructure including Fylkingen, Norberg Festival and the fabled Elektronmusikstudion EMS where he now teaches various courses.

A well known evangelist for the open source music coding platform SuperCollider, its rare for someone to spend more than five minutes in his company without getting a run down on how you, too can get SuperClean installed on your computer and be making your own computer music in a matter of minutes.

As a composer, he works extensively with algorithmic composition to organise sound in a way that brings texture and timbre to the fore. This LP — his first solo release on vinyl — contains the work he was commissioned to make for the seventh edition festival for other music. That festival was a collaboration with INA GRM who trucked their Acousmonium multi-channel speaker orchestra to Stockholm for the occasion. Side A is a stereo rendering of Karlsson’s performance on the opening night. Side B includes a second version recorded a month later. A new longer version and the complete source code for the piece are bundled together with the digital download giving you the potential to have it playing at home forever.

The cover of the LP shows the 3 character codes for each of the 64 instruments and objects that Karlsson recorded himself performing for the piece. These recordings are then set in motion and living relation to each other inside the computer.