*200 copies limited edition* "Paper Braids came out of a long collaboration between me and the wonderful musicians of the Kali Ensemble. Through a series of workshops, residencies, and performances over the course of four years, we built up a collective practice focused on three topics: listening as the basis of musical interaction, awareness of how sound interacts with the performance space, and using that spatial awareness as a basis for both the duration of individual sounds and the temporal unfolding of an entire piece.

All three focal points of our practice are represented in this piece. Paper Braids is tailored specifically to the acoustics of the Orgelpark hall and the tuning and timbral specificities of the four organs I used: Utopa and Sauer controlled algorithmically via the Hyperorgan console, the romantic Verschueren, and the meantone Van Straten organ. At the same time, the speakers and microphones are placed at four different spots in the hall to induce acoustic feedback in response to the organ sound.

The idea of feedback is a core structural principle of the piece: not only is acoustic feedback responding to the sounds of the organs, but so is the listening of the musicians to the sound in space is guiding their performance: their scores look like ‘maps’ of the sounds in space, and they orient and build their own trajectories based on the sounds they hear. Simultaneously, the algorithm controlling the Hyperorgan reacts to certain sounds as they occur in the space, triggering different events on the organs in turn." - Danya Pilchen