In Better Shape Than You Found Me, by Jordan Dykstra / Koen Nutters

In Better Shape Than You Found Me

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'In Better Shape Than You Found Me' is a one-hour piece jointly composed and realized by American composer/violist Jordan Dykstra and Dutch composer/musician Koen Nutters in the year 2020.

Dykstra plays viola, pitch pipe, crotales, piano EBow, electronic programming, field recordings, and Nutters delivers the piano programming and field recordings. The two bring together their sounds and structures in very organic ways, merging into a single, intriguing sound world.

Sparsely created minimal sounds from various instruments and electronics intersect and move organically in a geometric pattern, linearly or ascendingly, while retaining calmness and a sense of spatial expansion over the subtle presence of field recordings, occasionally hovering at the edge of harmonies or assimilating into silences.

A quartet version of the piece was recently premiered by the ensemble of Dykstra, Manuel Lima, Lucy Railton, and Hannes Lingens at KM28 in Berlin on August 7, 2021. Further performances of different versions of the piece are likely to appear in Amsterdam and New York City in the near future.

Mastered by Taku Unami, photography by David Sylvian, design by Yuko Zama.

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released October 19, 2021

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composed by Jordan Dykstra and Koen Nutters

Jordan Dykstra - viola, pitch pipe, crotales, piano EBow, electronic programming, field recordings
Koen Nutters - piano programming, field recordings

recorded by Jordan Dykstra and Koen Nutters in New York City, Charlottesville, and Berlin in 2020
edited and mixed by Jordan Dykstra
mastered by Taku Unami

photography by David Sylvian
designed by Yuko Zama
produced by Jordan Dykstra, Koen Nutters, and Yuko Zama

Jordan Dykstra is published by Basilita Bonita Publishing (BMI)

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* Q&A interview with Jordan Dykstra and Koen Nutters about ‘In Better Shape Than You Found Me’.
www.elsewheremusic.net/qa-with-jordan-dykstra--koen-nutters.html

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