9×13 | New music for neo-fanfare -Compact disc 9x13's debut album features several works composed by contemporary composers for their five productions, Morendo (2016), Trance (2017), Les Fauves (2019), Halt en Sta Stil (2021) and Onder NAP (2022).
Black Untitled – Michael Hersch – Compact Disc Black Untitled reveals a music of unfiltered, visceral intensity. Presenting two works by Michael Hersch (1971), Ensemble Klang delve into an oeuvre that explores the frailty and destruction of the human body.
Cold Highlife – Matthew Wright – Compact Disc Cold Highlife brings together three works at the interchange of notation, improvisation and technology: composer, improvisor and sound artist Matthew Wright draws on a bold sonic palette hewn from colliding forces.
Cows, Chords & Combinations – Tom Johnson – Compact Disc Tom Johnson (1939) belongs to a rich tradition of artists, from Marcel Duchamp through John Cage, who prefer 'finding' to 'creating'. In Johnson's case, a surprising musical beauty is found in the regularity, logic and symmetry of pre-existing mathematical structures.
Debris & Alchemy – Kate Moore – 12” Vinyl Kate Moore (1979) presents music that feels simultaneously familiar and strange. It explores the transformation of musical material through a landscape of memory and reference.
Elegies & Litanies – Keir Neuringer – 12” Vinyl On Elegies & Litanies, outrage, despair, and a mourning for the gone world are revealed in a compositional palette that is at turns angular, smoldering, menacing, but also arcadian. These are works born as much out of the composer’s studio as out of the rehearsal studio with Ensemble Klang.
Environments – Peter Adriaansz – compact disc In his largest work to date, Peter Adriaansz delivers a wide-ranging reflection on humankind and society. Multiple layers of musical material, from background hum and de-tuned guitars to florid piano scales, combine with spoken word texts to create expansive Environments.
Essential Relaxing Classical Hits – Laurence Osborn – Compact disc Threefold ecopack Compact Disc, with 24-page booklet including Tim Rutherford-Johnson’s liner notes, and Laurence Osborn’s complete texts for Essential Relaxing…
Music at the edge of collapse – Matthew Wright – Compact Disc Music at the edge of collapse weaves together asymmetric structures and detuned melodies with splintered beats and totemic forms in a set of works where musical time and classical notation are constantly fragmented and re-imagined.
Nieuw Babylon – Compact disc A playful mix of compositions, navigating between familiar sounds and newly written music, tailormade for 9x13. Nieuw Babylon is a musical space of discovery, where you never know exactly what you're going to experience or where you'll end up.
O Death – Oscar Bettison – Compact Disc O Death mixes saxophones, trombone, banjo and piano with jaw's harps, harmonicas, recorders, melodica, flower pots and prepared wrenches. This seven-movement requiem masque assembles a broad range of traditions, including blues and other American folk music, exploring the theme of death and transcendence.
Precious Metals – Pete Harden – Compact Disc In Precious Metals, composer Pete Harden conjures a world of rich humming surfaces punctured by howling wild vibrations, a set of works that at times soar with a bright radiance and at others crash with shattering ferocity. Distorted trombones and stuttering guitars lead you through an exploration of texture and resonance.
The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto – Compact disc Stephanie Pan’s 'The Art of Doing Nothing: a feminist manifesto' is about listening to yourself and the world around you. Let Stephanie Pan and Ensemble Klang lure you onto a sonic roller-coaster that dives and soars through lush dramatic song, delicate soundscapes, post-punk noise, and pounding tekno beats.
The Burning – Ivan Vukosavljević – Vinyl Ivan Vukosavljević arms Ensemble Klang with an array of deconstructed electric guitars in The Burning, a 45 minute “ominous, majestic drone [that] starts as a smouldering glow, but gradually develops into a hellish forest inferno.”
Vanishing Point – Compact disc Vanishing Point collects three works for the musicians of Ensemble Klang by Maya Verlaak (Belgium, 1990). Interactive scores, musical puzzles, lead to unique sonic encounters for performers and listeners.
Walden – Heiner Goebbels – Compact Disc Heiner Goebbels’ Walden sculpts a set of musical landscapes after the eponymous novel by 19th century naturalist Henry David Thoreau, a grandfather of both modern environmentalism and civil disobedience.
Waves – Peter Adriaansz – Compact disc The work of Peter Adriaansz (1966) is a musical exploration of profound existential questions, questions defiantly of the twenty-first century, about musical perception, about the nature of sound and the passage of time. Waves is music that moves very slowly; it is composed of long tones that change mostly in our perception because of incidents in the sonic ecology that surrounds them.
