The music on this album often avoids the tempered scale and focuses on the lower end of the sound spectrum, creating a dark impression that slides away from traditional tonality.
Recording & Production
This album is a re-release of a 2015 recording from the Listen|Hear label, with an additional track, "Percipience: After Kaul," composed by Decibel members Louise Devenish and Stuart James.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album explores darkness not as an absence, but as a catalyst for heightened perception, inviting listeners to engage with a shadowy soundscape that illuminates the act of listening.
Performer Biography
Decibel, the ensemble performing on this album, was founded in 2009 and has commissioned over 100 new works, specializing in graphic notations and pioneering digital score formats.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, "Tuned Darker," comes from a line in the 2004 poem "October" by Louise Glück, a poet who lived from 1943 to 2023.
Instruments
The piece "Percipience: After Kaul" features an "overtone triangle," an instrument construction by German percussionist Matthias Kaul that uses a wire and polystyrene half-domes to amplify and spatialize the triangle's complex sounds.
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