The foursome got to know each other in 2013, whilst collaborating on an improvisation project in Edinburgh. Their first audiovisual work arose when Colin and Chanté secretly made a video to Michael and Karin’s CD for rei as a doe. The process order for the realisation of that project was Michael’s composition → Karin’s interpretation → Colin’s paintings → Chanté’s video.

pulsed represents a reversal of this order: Colin and Chanté’s new video was made before the music in 2017 from 21 of Colin’s paintings: nine black, six blue, and six orange. Michael and Karin deliberated on this before going into the studio on November 14th 2018. Karin performed, and Michael recorded, two full-length uninterrupted piano improvisations and a shorter third improvisation at one crucial point. Michael then took these, edited and mixed them—often making both main layers simultaneously audible—before running them all through his interactive, real-time audio processing software several times. He captured the results of this and edited them before mixing in more formally composed elements to create the final immersive audio track in third-order ambisonics format.

The result is a slow-moving meditative work of thirty-nine minutes duration combining piano and electronic sound with abstract, often saturated painted forms that slowly move, dissolve, and morph.

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