Daniel Elms
Luminous (The Telegraph), monolithic (Bach Track), and emotionally powerful (Seen and Heard), Daniel Elms’ distinctive voice in 21st-century music unashamedly obscures the distinction between composer and producer.
Daniel
Elms
Luminous [The Telegraph], monolithic [Bach Track], and emotionally powerful [Seen and Heard], Daniel Elms’ distinctive voice in 21st-century music unashamedly obscures the distinction between composer and producer.
Electroacoustic urban pictures. Created from bold, geometric patterns, and intricate orchestral textures fused to post-industrial soundscapes. Daniel Elms’ distinctive music elicits total immersion into its intimate, emotive and abstracted commentaries on humanist, social and progressive subjects.
Latest Recordings
Collected Works 2018-22
Collected Works 2018-22 cements Elms’ standing as a distinctive and original voice in contemporary music, and extends his vision of a 21st-century orchestral music coloured, mediated, and expanded by psychology and technology. An album that encapsulates a profound period of self discovery and change.
The monolithic 100 Demons performed by Manchester Collective, "and in this [recorded] form we have captured the demon and have not had the heart or foolishness to release it."
Consolations in Travel created for BBC Concert Orchestra and Unclassified Live, "…gorgeous, meditative, twinkling and, at times, foreboding sound. It ebbs and flows like the ocean and is a truly enjoyable journey through various subtle changes in timbre and mood."
— Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3
The Age of Spiritual Machines for the Royal Philharmonic Society, "a work that was reliant on my self understanding and the environments I have built around myself — identity through music. It is the embodiment of my sympathetic resonance with music that I discovered as a teenager, lost, and then found again."
'When the geography of the world of After Us shifts around you, the music is right there with you on your journey. It bubbles and swells as you plunge to the depths of the ocean; it soars when you climb to the top of the highest tower. Blending sci-fi synthesis with music concreté, evoking place and time, and always with sincerity.'
