Three by 15, by Jesper Pedersen

Three by 15

by Jesper Pedersen

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"I met Jesper Pedersen close to the harbor in mild foggy fall weather. He was an exchange student. We talked about Cage and the weather. Me and Páll Ivan frá Eiðum adopted him. Jesper had a very good relationship with machines. When I asked him for solutions to pd problems or any such electronic music related questions he would comically reply: “It is always good to yell at the computer first”. That is the one thing that I’ve never seen him do and we’ve been on this journey together for almost two decades.

It helps that he is a very patient person. I think of it partly as a Danish trait. This is an attitude that helps him enormously in dealing with all kinds of unforeseeable glitches, pops and crackles in any given situation. His instrument was the king of instruments - the first synthesizer, namely the pipe organ. From the footsteps of Bach and Buxtehude he went straight into the realm of Wendy Carlos and Morton Subotnick when he bought his first analog synthesizer from an organ teacher in the 90’s.

With computer sound and pioneering work in animated notation, very experimental compositions, it was bound to happen that he would come back full on into the modular synthesizer world in the form of the Eurorack and all its relatives. In the future I hope to see these things collide - modular animated notation with computer controlled pipe organ - modulated physically by analog synthesizers connected to brainwaves.

Jesper talks the language of the machines. He talks with them and it is a relationship that goes both ways. He also listens. Similar to how Sigurd/Sigfried learned the language of the birds, Jesper learned the language of the machines - whatever it was that he drank, it suits him well." -Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson

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All the material on this album was recorded October 2019 during live improvised performances. Track 1 and 2 was recorded at the Sonikas Festival in Madrid. Track 3 was recorded at the Rask Collective RASK #1 event in Reykjavik. Edits and post production in Reykjavik April/May 2020.
Field recordings were captured in New York City, Philadelphia, Johns Creek, and Kangerluarsoruseq.

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released May 21, 2020

Jesper Pedersen: modular synthesizers, laptop, tablet, field recordings.
Katie Buckley: harp
Páll Ivan frá Eiðum: cover art
Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: liner notes
Ryan Ross Smith: mastering

All music composed and produced by Jesper Pedersen

Special thanks:
Katie Buckley, Sól Ey and the Rask Collective, Alfonso Pomeda, Juan Carlos Blancas and all of the Sonikas team.

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Jesper Pedersen Iceland

Composer and performer based in Reykjavik.
Jesper performs on modular synthesizers and writes music using experimental animated graphic notation.

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