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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.
Bethia
Royal Festival Hall
Photo by Nick West
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.
Bethia
Royal Festival Hall
Photo by Nick West
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.
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."
A soundtrack evocative of an atmospheric, dystopian view of the future. Expressive sci-fi synthesis with an emotional heart, mirroring the core of 'After Us' and its unique storytelling. Start your journey into this dystopian future here.
'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.'
'Up to this point, my work had been about the interpretation of a subject, a literary work, or the coming to terms with a music influence,' Elms says.
'Whereas this was something that was much more visceral, that came out of a series of emotions that I experienced at that age, and that have continued to influence me to this day'.
'Consolations in Travel' 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 technology.
The album 'Islandia' is compiled of five works for chamber orchestra, electric guitar, synthesisers and found sounds. Each of the five works ruminate upon the post-industrial coastal towns and people of North East England. The album was first sketched at the former home of Imogen Holst in Autumn 2015 and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in June 2017.
The album 'Islandia' is compiled of five works for chamber orchestra, electric guitar, synthesisers and found sounds. Each of the five works ruminate upon the post-industrial coastal towns and people of North East England. The album was first sketched at the former home of Imogen Holst in Autumn 2015 and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in June 2017.
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