Premiere: Eilien - Digital Lovers (Lyric Video) [Genot Centre]

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Lyric video for Eilien new album Digital Lovers, out on Genot Centre.
Video by h5io6i54k
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DIGITAL LOVERS (GEN045) by EILIEN is a captivating and perplexing articulation, dreamlike and intimate throughout yet uncompromising and enveloping in its realization. Entranced voices appear doubled, shifted, they take on a shimmering, cool quality. Through careful sparse arrangements, living, breathing, discrete music environments result, constructed using ruminating trance plucks; huge drifting synth washes and gliding, metallic pads. Incidental concrète material, crisp bass pulses and uncanny sound objects remind the listener of the digital root and conception of this music, in which stripped down computer music traces come to life as an animated whole.
Ellen Virman/Eilien (they/them) about the album
"Emotional audio synthesis ~ SuperCollider pop music ~ Digital daydreaming.
The music on Digital Lovers is a special mixture of self-coded synthetic sounds and timeless pop-music. It refers to existing genres and phenomena, but defies any specific category creating a strong style of its own.
My main sound producing tool is SuperCollider, a text-based audio coding platform. I’ve coded my own sounds, instruments and structures with the means of audio synthesis, sample manipulation and input signal modification. The thematic sphere floats between digital and organic. Synthetic walls of sound are mirrored to the mediations of the “natural” world, in the shape of field recordings, acoustic instruments and my voice. Love is searching it’s place in this spectre of digital and organic reality: excitement of future love, grief over fading love, love’s force for creation and transformative power of love.”
h5io6i54k about the video
I felt immediately inspired when first listening to the album - its incredibly cozy and intimate atmosphere captivating my imagination and producing a plethora of visuals on their own. At first I thought of the video as leaning towards a more visualizer-style form, acting as more of a screen saver, but as soon as Eilien sent a webcam video of them singing and vibing along I couldn't have made them the centerpiece of the work. From that point on my idea of the video shifted irrevocably towards a much more intimate and abstracted Twin Peaks Roadhouse outro, using the concert format as something universally recognisable (and very much missed these days) to bring the whole performance even closer to the audience than ever.
Credits and links:
Video by h5io6i54k
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Composed and performed by Ellen Virman
www.eilieneili...
/ eilieneilien
Co-produced by Eero Pulkkinen
www.eeropulkki...
/ susiovet
Artwork by Lenka Glisníková
/ lenkaglisnikova
Typography & tape design layout by Matej Vojtuš
www.matejvojtu...
Mastered by Roland Nagy
/ fausto_mercier
Released by Genot Centre
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