We recorded multiple layers of the choir in Budapest and ran the ostinato part through a simple modular set up and processed some phrases. Three simple layers on this one: Eight-piece choir, small brass section, and a modular. We would love to release a sample library of these sorts of things as, honestly, it feels as if I am forever creating new patches during recording cycles. It’s layers of different pianos played simply via a Native Instruments Kontakt sampler patch. We have been working on this patch since we first experimented with it on Atomos. We try all things and achieve what we can. Invisible Cities by A Winged Victory for the Sullen 1. Hear the soundtrack in full below, and read on for his commentary. It seemed necessary, then, to have Wiltzie step in and define those sounds which, as it turns out, range from felted piano, to garden mulch, to water cooler bottles. In spite of the spare sounds of their score, there are plenty of strange textures heard over the project’s distilled 45 minutes. With Invisible Cities, though, we’re finally gifted with a visual component to the duo’s evocative compositions, pairing their postmodern murmurs with strikingly apt visual spaces brought to life by dance. Dating back to his work with The Dead Texan and Stars of the Lid, Adam Wiltzie’s been constructing ominous, near-apocalyptic soundscapes pitting menacing drone against a more approachable ambient sound, which took a modern classical turn when he teamed up with pianist Dustin O’Halloran in the tail end of the 2000s to launch AWVFTS. The ominous soundscapes of ‘The Dead Outnumber the Living’ contrast with the new beginnings that are presented in ‘Every Solstice & Equinox’, while the jagged and uneasy ‘Thirteenth Century Travelogue’ is one of tension and dread.Įlsewhere, ‘The Divided City’ captivates and intrigues while ‘Only Strings and Their Supports Remain’ and ‘There Is One of Which You Never Speak’ are bold roars for survival before the choral ambience of ‘Desires Are Already Memories’ and piercing drones of ‘Total Perspective Vortex’ bring down the curtain on a spectacular and incredibly emotive body of work.The duo behind A Winged Victory for the Sullen have always been primed to soundtrack the type of bizarre stage production that is the industrial-set dance-and-visual-arts adaptation of the Italo Calvino novel Invisible Cities. Transformed into 45 minutes of breathtaking beauty, ‘Invisible Cities’ opens with the numinous ‘So That the City Can Begin to Exist’, as Wiltzie and O'Halloran draw breath from distinctively enthralling and vastly expansive worlds. Originally conceived as a touring project, its last performance was in Brisbane, Australia before COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. Described by The Sunday Times as “a beautiful frenzy of movement”, it fuses theatre, music, dance, architectural design, and visuals and brings to life a series of fantastical places and disparate worlds, centered on the tense relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo. Premiering to a sell-out audience in July 2019 at the Manchester International Festival, the duo was commissioned by Warner’s 59 Productions to score the music for the 90-minute multimedia theatrical stage show, adapted from Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel, ‘Invisible Cities’. Released on their own Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing label, the album comes as part of an agreement with A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s current label, Ninja Tune. ORDER: VINYL | CD | TAPE CASSETTE : bit.ly/3hQLdVVĪ Winged Victory for the Sullen, the collaboration between Adam Wiltzie & Dustin O'Halloran, release their 2021 album ‘Invisible Cities’, the stunning score to the critically acclaimed theatre production directed by London Olympics ceremony video designer Leo Warner. NEW: AWVFTS X DAVY EVANS: LIMITED-EDITION PRINTS: /shop/
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