NOVA ATLANTIS
Miako Klein, Jia Lim
- Label
- Rockshots
- Format
- Digital
Welcome to the Sound House - a place of contemplation, curiosity and discovery. Here the echoes of the baroque merge with the unpredictable shimmer of electronic sounds while Miako Klein and Jia Lim traverse centuries of sound and imagination. Inspired by Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1626), the two reinterpret the "sound houses" he described - laboratories of resonance and invention - as a living metaphor for their own musical practice. At the heart of Nova Atlantis is a dialogue between the historical and the experimental, between notation and improvisation, between gut strings and glowing LEDs. A replica of a Renaissance harpsichord hums alongside recorders and baroque violins; beneath it a network of cables and pedals shape the music into new dimensions of colour and texture. Klein and Lim explore the Doctrine of Affections with fresh ears, discover the rhetorical power of the old masters - Biber, Matteis, Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, Weckmann and Schmelzer - and breathe new life into their spirit through the lens of the Stylus Fantasticus. Improvisation flows freely and combines the precision of early music with the spontaneity of modern sound art. The result is a sonic journey through past and present, in which historical gestures resonate with electronic echoes and the language of the baroque is fractured by contemporary sensibilities.
Tracklist
- 01 Improvisation: I. 02:38
- 02 Mystery (Rosary) Sonata: No. 1 in D Minor 06:57
- 03 Fantasia in A Minor 'Alia Fantasia' 04:15
- 04 spool reicul 03:22
- 05 Chaconne in E Minor, BuxWV 160 05:11
- 06 Improvisation: II. 04:50
- 07 Capriccio di obligo di cantare la quinta parte senza toccarla 07:17
- 08 Toccata in D Minor 05:09
- 09 Improvisation: III. 04:03
- 10 Violin Sonata: No. 1, Unarum Fidium 08:52
Source: MusicBrainz