Marina Džukljev - church organ | noid - cello

Marina Džukljev - church organ
noid - amplified cello

 

a counter position of church organ and amplified cello encircles the audience

like continents slowly shifting

exploring the space as an abstract structure

variations in density and micro tonality

composed with the specific potentiality of every instrument

an inward movement revealing a dazzling array of colors

 

release: CD "continents" on inexhaustable editions #61

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“A fantastic duo of church organ and cello that steers into vaporous arrangements to formulate engaging, dissonant drone masses. The contrast and intersection of the two instruments’ timbres are revelatory, enhancing every sonic movement and expression. Džukljev and Noid explore discordant shards with precision. Quiet aural screams generate tension and unpredictability through frequency interference. A hardened edge emerges in the auditory periphery, trying to throw up boundaries to keep our focus from falling into the funereal abyss. In the closing stretches, hollow bass tones grow around the heightened cello textures, searing a lasting mark in the final notes.” / Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis, 2 May 2023

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“The Serbian pianist, Marina Džukljev, effortlessly pushes the envelope of novel sound with every new release. Since her duet with turntablist dieb13, she has just landed ‘Continents’, an electroacoustic recording that fortifies her explorative brio, in tandem with the Viennese cellist Noid.
Settled on a church organ during the legendary Konfrontationen festival at the Austrian-Hungarian border in 2019, Džukljev plays in antiphony towards Noid, all the while congregating to a joint pitch in the fashion of microtonal reductionism.
The opening ‘Onma’ is reminiscent of Japanese meisters and is almost equally engaging. By ‘Elbe’, the duet overtakes the massive stance fore – a stringy business of unleashing their own exorcism. As the mechanical sounds start leaking from the building’s pores, the cello releases a symphony of sorts, and by ‘Vomp’, the church’s mother ship turns into an aquarium where harmonies abound.
The final piece, in duration of an average tune by The Swans [sic!], hits it deep in quite the opposite direction – hardly stirring the level of mezzopiano. The boat was rocked, and the sailors hadn’t wasted a drip.” / Vid Jeraj, Telegram, 12 May 2023

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"Continents is an arresting sonic journey in a unique space and in time, with a most elusive sense of time. It blurs the distinction between sound art and music and employs beautifully the acoustic qualities of the space of the protestant church in Nickelsdorf. It contrasts the restless attempt to extend the sonic range of Noid’s amplified acoustic cello, with its accumulations of delicate, multiphonic tones and overtones, and the unsettling, quiet and almost static drones of Džukljev’s church organ, with its clear and sometimes distorted tones, and varies its fragile dynamics with subtle changes in density and fine adjustments in microtonality." Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts