Passion For Numbers (LP,Insert)

Chris Korda

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Label: mental groove

Cat-No: MG135

Release-Date: 22.04.2022

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Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: LP Excl

Barcode: 4251804123006

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Label: mental groove

Cat-No: MG135

Release-Date: 22.04.2022

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Genre: Ambient/Balearic/Kraut/Electro

Configuration: LP Excl

Barcode: 4251804123006

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Last in: 10.03.2022

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Chris Korda - A1. Ero Ayo (00:00) Chris Korda - A1. Ero Ayo (00:00)	1	Chris Korda - A1. Ero Ayo
Chris Korda - A2. Mo Bulu (00:00) Chris Korda - A2. Mo Bulu (00:00)	2	Chris Korda - A2. Mo Bulu
Chris Korda - A3. Irubo (00:00) Chris Korda - A3. Irubo (00:00)	3	Chris Korda - A3. Irubo
Chris Korda - A4. Ninu Meta (00:00) Chris Korda - A4. Ninu Meta (00:00)	4	Chris Korda - A4. Ninu Meta
Chris Korda - B1. Ibaramu (00:00) Chris Korda - B1. Ibaramu (00:00)	5	Chris Korda - B1. Ibaramu
Chris Korda - B2. Yipo (00:00) Chris Korda - B2. Yipo (00:00)	6	Chris Korda - B2. Yipo
Chris Korda - B3. Fun IFe (00:00) Chris Korda - B3. Fun IFe (00:00)	7	Chris Korda - B3. Fun IFe
Chris Korda - B4. Roro (00:00) Chris Korda - B4. Roro (00:00)	8	Chris Korda - B4. Roro

LP

Special: sleeve is printed with silver pantone, includes note from composer (insert)
For fans of Generative Music, Neo Classic, Jazz, Experimental
A1 Ero Ayo
A2 Mo Bulu
A3 Irubo
A4 Ninu Meta
B1 Ibaramu
B2 Yipo
B3 Fun IFe
B4 Roro

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Chris Korda is an internationally renowned multimedia artist, whose work spans thirty years and includes electronic music, digital and video art, performance and conceptual art, and culture jamming. Chris pioneered the use of complex polymeter in electronic dance music, and invented a unique MIDI sequencer in order to explore polymeter composition techniques. Chris composes and performs music in a variety of genres, and has released many albums on labels such as Perlon, Mental Groove, and Gigolo Records. Chris also worked as a computer programmer for thirty-five years.

Her new album "Passion For Numbers" is one of the very few album in the world entirely composed in complex polymeter, meaning that each pieces of music uses several prime meters simultaneously. A unique way to compose music with a new generation of musical algorithmic, inside which Korda injects the DNA of neo classical, ambient and jazz music.

This refreshing album will please you whether you are into complex musical composition, experimental music or just seeking for a beautiful, emotional and accessible musical moment. This is a "In your hearts not the charts" album, as Irdial Discs once said.

Pleases read an extract of Chris Korda's letter about Passion For Numbers, included as insert in its entirety in this vinyl release:

This is an album of piano music, but I wrote it without a piano. Not having a piano turned out to be constructive, because I had to rely on my brain instead of my fingers, and particularly on my imagination and inner hearing. The album belongs to a category called phase music, and it’s also algorithmic, or more precisely rules-based generative music.

I don’t write music in the usual sense of the word “write.” I build kinetic sculptures, and the sculptures generate my music. My sculptures are virtual, meaning they’re invisible machines that exist only as data within my home-grown software.
My process is related to the work of a relatively obscure early 20th century artist named Thomas Wilfred. Like me, Wilfred was an engineer-artist, and built machines that generated art from phase shift.

My music is in complex polymeter, meaning it’s not just in odd time, but in multiple odd time signatures, and not one odd time signature after another sequentially, but all of them running concurrently. Most music isn’t constructed this way, which is why I needed to develop custom software in order to compose my music. My software is called The Polymeter MIDI Sequencer, and you can easily find it on the Internet. I also use music set theory, change-ringing and gray code, explanations of which can be found in Wikipedia.

Chris Korda
(extract from "Passion By Numbers" liner notes)