The Berlin duo’s organ core is as wild as the instrument’s past.
The good old organ has been enjoying great popularity again for some time now. However, it is not uncommon for the music made to sound as sacred as the churches in which it is usually found. Maciej Śledziecki and Marion Wörle discovered years ago that pipe organs could be played with MIDI controllers and then their “dirty secret”: in pre-Christian times the organ was “sensual, ecstatic, feared”.
On radiating, the curatorial duo from the Berlin event series “Aggregate,” which specializes in computer-controlled pipe organs and operates under the name Gamut Inc., builds on these emotional and spicy qualities. They design seven labyrinthine pieces that make the time-honored instrument of the Berlin Auenkirche sound like a synthesizer smoking from overload – including little happy accidents.
Instead of sacred tones, this album offers profane joys and, again and again, moments of ecstatic loss of control.
