Gabriel Paiuk
Degrees of transparency
This is volume 2 in a collection created in collaboration with Echonance Festival, Amsterdam, coming just one year after volume 1 (Phill Niblock / Looking for Daniel) and just in time for the third edition of the festival in February 2025. Here is and opus centered on the piano by composer and sound artist Gabriel Paiuk. Those thought provoking pieces are rendered with exquisite precision and depth by the extraordinary musicians, pianist Reinier van Houdt, Maurice Quartet, and Paiuk himself.
Adjacent Sound
Adjacent Sound positions Gabriel Paiuk as a composer attuned to the phenomena of perception, proximity, and the thresholds where listening itself becomes the subject. Rather than presenting a collection of isolated pieces, the album unfolds as a unified exploration into how sound delineates and dissolves boundaries - between performers, between recorded and live presence, between the material and the ephemeral. Every aspect of the release is shaped by a careful questioning of what it means to li…