Touch has released Fennesz’s “The Last Days of May”, previously available via LongForm Editions. LongForm Editions is no longer active, so at Fennesz’s request, Touch have reissued it with new artwork by Jon Wozencroft.

Fennesz writes: “The piece was recorded in the last days of May 2024. I discarded my original concepts for this piece right after starting the work. This was partly due to the fact that I happened to listen to a piece by Roland S. Howard that day, who I consider one of the greatest guitarists. So, I started again with a blank canvas. I focused on the essential components and instruments that had defined my work so far: guitars, string instruments in general and samples thereof, as well as a few synthesizers with a particular focus on the now largely forgotten synthesis principle of physical modelling. Microtonality and the decay behaviour of strings were important to me. The piece, conceived as a sound installation, is meant to blend into everyday soundscapes and occasionally stand out. However, it can also be listened to at full volume on headphones.”

In 2024 Christian Fennesz contributed a new composition titled “The Last Days of May” to Volume, the innovative music series presented by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 5-21 July 2024. “Threshold” is a new music programme devised in collaboration with Longform Editions, the Sydney-based, internationally renowned online “gallery for listening”. For the duration of Volume 2024, recordings of four world-premiere compositions were played at the thresholds of Naala Badu and Naala Nura – the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ north and south buildings.

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