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Mads Emil Nielsen
Black Box 3
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- updated:2024-06-27
We've got works by Copenhagen's MADS EMIL NIELSEN — whose output has featured the likes of Jan Jelinek, Nicola Ratti, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrea Neumann — as well as releases on his label ARBITRARY in stock.
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arbitrary presents the third in the Black Box series of releases by Mads Emil Nielsen. The release, which showcases a more sample- and grid-based side of the Danish musician/composer’s work, is part of a sequence of publications with music and audio originally made for theatre, radio soundtracks and more.
Black Box 3 is based on sound pieces produced for Sprækker (Cracks), a dance performance & installation in Denmark, 2021. The starting points for these pieces are improvisations recorded with contemporary dancers, in which Nielsen guides the listener through a corpus of synthesizer recordings, everyday sounds and radio archives. These original recordings were reworked for this LP and edited into the six tracks in early 2022 – Black Box 3 (arbitrary14) is now released on 12” vinyl + DL.
Black Box 3 is based on sound pieces produced for Sprækker (Cracks), a dance performance & installation in Denmark, 2021. The starting points for these pieces are improvisations recorded with contemporary dancers, in which Nielsen guides the listener through a corpus of synthesizer recordings, everyday sounds and radio archives. These original recordings were reworked for this LP and edited into the six tracks in early 2022 – Black Box 3 (arbitrary14) is now released on 12” vinyl + DL.
We have the vinyl edition of "Black Box 3," the 2022 release from Copenhagen, Denmark's Mads Emil Nielsen — the artist behind the Framework series, which uses graphic scores to explore visual and aural experience, and the concert series "Live + Listening Room," which pairs live performances with listening sessions. It's built from material created for the 2021 dance performance and installation "Sprækker (Cracks)," assembled from improvisations recorded with contemporary dancers, synthesizers, field recordings of everyday sounds, and radio archives. (Original Japanese text by Saito)