![]() ![]() The Undivided Five was released on 1 November 2019 on Ninja Tune. The title is also a reference to the album's songs being "centered around the harmonic perfect fifth", "the five senses" and "the divine interval". ![]() Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint 's spiritist group "The Five" subsequently informed the album's themes and inspired the title. The album's theme was described as "a profound realisation of life, death, the afterlife, and the spaces in between". One of O'Halloran and Wiltzie's closest friends died at the beginning of The Undivided Five 's recording sessions, at which point O'Halloran also learned he was to become a father for the first time. Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, for whom the duo had completed a remix prior to his death in 2018, was also noted as an influence. In particular, O'Halloran and Wiltzie were influenced by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy, "whose big chords and complicated arrangements inform a lot of their approach" and who the opening track ("Our Lord Debussy") alludes to. The Undivided Five features 9 tracks, consisting of a mixture of strings, piano and modular synthesizers. The final mix was conducted at Vox Ton in Berlin, where all previous A Winged Victory for the Sullen releases had been mixed. O'Halloran and Wiltzie recorded additional grand piano at a woodland studio in northern Italy and "experimented with overdubs" at Australian composer Ben Frost 's studio in Reykjavík, Iceland. Orchestral samples were recorded at Studio 22 at Magyar Rádió, Hungary's official international broadcasting station, in Budapest and several parts of the album were rerecorded in Église du Béguinage in Brussels. A Winged Victory for the Sullen 's two members, Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie, recorded in their own respective studios in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium. The Undivided Five was produced in eight different recording studios across Europe. It was released on 1 November 2019 on Ninja Tune. The Undivided Five is the third studio album by the ambient music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen. "The Rhythm of a Divided Pair"/"The Haunted Victorian Pencil". ![]() Clarke’s author introduction to 2001: A Space Odyssey Total Perspective Vortex is lifted straight from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. The Dead Outnumber the Living comes from Arthur C. Imagination is at the core of any version or interpretation of Calvino’s novel, from the conversations between the protagonists to the titles of the tracks here. Invisible not so much to the naked eye but invisible to the minutiae that bring a city to life.Īs a fan of reading in general, science-fiction specifically, I am reminded of James Blish’s Cities in Flight collection of short stories of cities physically leaving the Earth behind to wander the cosmos and find their destinies (note to self – dig that particular book out again) The title itself conjures images of silhouetted skylines, monoliths striking up the canvas of the sky’s background. Though I am without sight of book or show, I have done some research prior to writing this out as such, I will try to balance everything together – interpreting here, extrapolating there the intentions of Calvino and his character’s imaginary scenarios, and what Wiltzie & O’Halloran are attempting to convey. One assumes that, as Wlitzie states:Įarly on in discussions with director Leo Warner it was realised that the human voice would take a central role in the score as it was essentially the only instrument we could see evolving over 600 years with a storyline that would not have the listener screaming “its Zimmertime”…,” the removal of the human voice has resulted in the halving of the original score. After premiering at the 2019 Manchester International Festival the 90-minute score has been transformed into an LP of roughly half the length of the multi-media performance. ![]()
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