Skin String Sine
Simon Pomery is self-taught in piano since the age of 5. Born in Ireland and based in Fish Island, he founded Blood Music in a cold water sublet in Newington Green, around 2010. Skin String Sine is his first album release under his own name. It is a life reset.
Written and recorded first at BMS, with further figures written and recorded when Pomery was Halldorophone-Composer-in-Residence at EMS, Stockholm, it signals a new dimension in Simon Pomery's work, beginning in 2022: being receptive to sound as it appears for the first time and cultivates a suspended state of wonder in player and listener.
Skin String Sine is an album made of 'figures', a word Pomery now uses to describe the repetition and variation of musical parts, melodies heard in dreams or in waking life, and the body's manifestation of them. 'A String Stretched Between Stars and We Pluck It' was written for strings and voices in 2022, so that each iteration might have different instrumentation. For Pomery, the 'figure' is an earworm, hook, riff, sound transformed into choreography or sculpture, a portable ritual, mimicry, like the crane dance of the Dorians. A longer piece can be built from several figures. When he played 'A String Stretched Between Stars and We Pluck It' at Cafe Oto, there were 11 figures played. It's muscle/body memory.
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Simon Pomery is self-taught in piano since the age of 5. Born in Ireland and based in Fish Island, he founded Blood Music in a cold water sublet in Newington Green, around 2010. Skin String Sine is his first album release under his own name. It is a life reset.
Written and recorded first at BMS, with further figures written and recorded when Pomery was Halldorophone-Composer-in-Residence at EMS, Stockholm, it signals a new dimension in Simon Pomery's work, beginning in 2022: being receptive to sound as it appears for the first time and cultivates a suspended state of wonder in player and listener.
Skin String Sine is an album made of 'figures', a word Pomery now uses to describe the repetition and variation of musical parts, melodies heard in dreams or in waking life, and the body's manifestation of them. 'A String Stretched Between Stars and We Pluck It' was written for strings and voices in 2022, so that each iteration might have different instrumentation. For Pomery, the 'figure' is an earworm, hook, riff, sound transformed into choreography or sculpture, a portable ritual, mimicry, like the crane dance of the Dorians. A longer piece can be built from several figures. When he played 'A String Stretched Between Stars and We Pluck It' at Cafe Oto, there were 11 figures played. It's muscle/body memory.
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Simon Pomery is self-taught in piano since the age of 5. Born in Ireland and based in Fish Island, he founded Blood Music in a cold water sublet in Newington Green, around 2010. Skin String Sine is his first album release under his own name. It is a life reset.
Written and recorded first at BMS, with further figures written and recorded when Pomery was Halldorophone-Composer-in-Residence at EMS, Stockholm, it signals a new dimension in Simon Pomery's work, beginning in 2022: being receptive to sound as it appears for the first time and cultivates a suspended state of wonder in player and listener.
Skin String Sine is an album made of 'figures', a word Pomery now uses to describe the repetition and variation of musical parts, melodies heard in dreams or in waking life, and the body's manifestation of them. 'A String Stretched Between Stars and We Pluck It' was written for strings and voices in 2022, so that each iteration might have different instrumentation. For Pomery, the 'figure' is an earworm, hook, riff, sound transformed into choreography or sculpture, a portable ritual, mimicry, like the crane dance of the Dorians. A longer piece can be built from several figures. When he played 'A String Stretched Between Stars and We Pluck It' at Cafe Oto, there were 11 figures played. It's muscle/body memory.
