{"title":"Roland Kayn","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"little-electronic-milky-way-sound","title":"A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (16xCD Box)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSixteen-CD boxed set. Limited edition of 750.\n\u003cbr\u003eAudio restoration by Jim O’Rourke.\n\u003cbr\u003eArtwork by Robert Beatty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1-1. Czerial\t50:47\n\u003cbr\u003e2-1. Xattax\t44:15\n\u003cbr\u003e3-1. Somitoh\t53:25\n\u003cbr\u003e4-1. Ykties\t27:12\n\u003cbr\u003e4-2. Naaps\t30:53\n\u003cbr\u003e5-1. Rosonic\t30:21\n\u003cbr\u003e5-2. Ilay\t33:31\n\u003cbr\u003e6-1. Aseral\t50:26\n\u003cbr\u003e7-1. Ractil\t18:50\n\u003cbr\u003e7-2. Zearid\t34:39\n\u003cbr\u003e8-1. Radox\t42:00\n\u003cbr\u003e9-1. Qyrials I\t31:30\n\u003cbr\u003e9-2. Qyrials II\t45:46\n\u003cbr\u003e10-1. Tachys\t56:44\n\u003cbr\u003e11-1. 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The mass of logical interactions and correspondences underpinning the sounds we hear are submerged so deeply below the surface as to defy analysis. We are left only with the results, which grant the listener a profound and unique experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith ‘A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound’, Kayn provides both a vast sonic territory and the invitation to explore it. From glacial, drone-like vistas to violent staccato sequences, the piece’s twenty-two movements chart the length and breadth of electronic music in as comprehensive a manner as has ever been attempted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resurgence of the modular synthesizer as a popular musical tool in recent years belies the possibility that its boldest virtuosi may already lie in the instrument’s past. In his work in Europe’s electronic music studios alongside colleagues such as Leo Küpper and Jaap Vink, Kayn created sonic textures in such abundant variety as to make genre categorisation redundant. Photographs of the one-off, hand-built systems upon which they were realised have inspired the awe of electronic-music connoisseurs for years, but their output has been all too little heard and appreciated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2017, Roland Kayn represents perhaps one of the last titanic figures of 20th-century music to receive their due recognition, and to have their vital music restored to availability. Fresh from its release of Julius Eastman’s ‘Femenine’, which spurred on its composer’s wider rediscovery and gave rise to performances, broadcasts and festivals devoted to his work around the world, frozen reeds is proud to initiate the first stage of a similar process for Roland Kayn, which his incredible music so richly deserves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/341470740\u0026amp;color=ff5500\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roland Kayn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42244282581216,"sku":"fr7\/22","price":110.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/5988\/9376\/products\/A-Little-Electronic-Milky-Way-of-Sound.jpg?v=1640603033"},{"product_id":"roland-kayn-the-ortho-project","title":"The Ortho-Project (15xCD Box)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoland Kayn - The Ortho-Project\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15-CD limited edition boxed set. \u003cbr\u003eAudio restoration by Jim O’Rourke. \u003cbr\u003eArtwork and design by Robert Beatty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The mystery, the grace, the boundless invention – Kayn’s machine music is a vast catalogue of very human wonder.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -\u003cstrong\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Returning to the unreleased oeuvre of the master of cybernetic sound Roland Kayn, frozen reeds hereby unveils a new high watermark for longform electroacoustic composition, unfolding across 15 CDs in a luxurious gold-stamped boxed set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith Jim O’Rourke applying his signature restorative touch to the audio, and Robert Beatty taking his cryptic cybernetics-inspired artwork several steps beyond the label’s previous Kayn box, ‘The Ortho-Project’ (2007) – in its 14-hour entirety – finally sees a fitting release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1970, Roland Kayn began a decades-long period of research, development and creation at the Instituut voor Sonologie in Utrecht. In the mid to late 90s, he retired, relocated to the Dutch countryside, and began to realise new electronic works at Reiger Recording Studio – his modest home facility. “I finally came to the conclusion,” Kayn would later point out, “that I no longer needed studios to construct my own electronic music.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe working methods Kayn arrived at individually – without the room-filling synthesisers, mixing desks and signal-processing equipment of Sonology at his disposal – saw him turning his own career into a cybernetic process. From the hours of recorded sound amassed in prior decades, he began processing and assembling a mountainous quantity of new music. His works of this period are focused on reabsorbing and recontextualising his life’s work to produce yet another series of utterly alien landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his retirement until his death in 2011, Kayn was wildly prolific, leaving an archive of dozens of finished electronic pieces. Earlier source material is often re-sculpted using the technology Kayn had available to hand, while other techniques such as sampling radio broadcasts or the plunderphonic quotation of others’ works occasionally intercede.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo notes accompany any of this music – no word of explanation or expression of intent. Only the works and their titles remain, the latter often simply deepening the mystery. Their durations range from around 20 minutes to almost 18 hours. ‘The Ortho-Project’, presented here in its 14-hour entirety, is among the longest. At this scale, Kayn’s music is perhaps at its most immersive; the listener senses they are being invited to envelope themselves in a rich environment of diverse timbral physicality rather than a programmatic work. 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