Please continue or Please go on.
The experiment requires that you continue.
It is absolutely essential that you continue.
You have no other choice; you must go on.
(that's fine)
contains a sample from the documentary film "Obedience" (1962) by Stanley Milgram
Released as a part of the DLBxGaza compilation organised by Don’t Look Back Records. All revenue goes to Doctors Without Borders for their humanitarian work in the Gaza Strip.
Release feat. NEKO3.
three_four_maybe (composed 2020-21, recorded 2023) for 3 musicians: midi controllers, prepared piano, 24 solenoids, 3 LED panels
When I was a child, before I started writing my own music, I used to write short stories. My poor handwriting made it difficult for others to read, and we didn’t have a computer at home at the time. So my parents got me a typewriter for my birthday.
I see the grand piano in “three_four_maybe” a bit like a giant typewriter that makes the most amazing sounds. Sounds that are like characters in a text. When combined, these characters become rhythms, melodies, words, sentences. And, in theory, when used in a given combination, they could, like atoms, become something unlike anything that has ever existed before.
released May 12, 2023 on Don’t Look Back Records
Release feat. Lorenzo Colombo. “entrée / en mouvement / encore” is a piece for vibraphone and electronics I wrote back in 2016-17, presented as a studio recording for the first time.
The piece draws from quotes from "A Treatise Concerning The Principles of Human Knowledge" (1710) translated into morse code and used as musical material. This would become my first "text based" piece, a technique that would evolve in some of my later works such as "one for two" (2018) "YES FOR NO" (2020) and "three_four_maybe" (2021)."
released April 14, 2023 on Don’t Look Back Records
Released as haknam.
During the Christmas holidays in 2019, I went on a trip to China with Fei, my life partner. We visited her hometown Beihai and its surroundings in the Guanxi province, as well as Shanghai. I brought a sound recorder with me and did some field recordings during the trip.
I decided I would make a piece based on those field recordings, where the music is built upon the original sound instead of silence. Like painting on top of an existing picture.
released January 6, 2023 on Don’t Look Back Records
Mikrofoodie is a special performance created in collaboration with Fei Nie and Lorenzo Colombo. Vaguely inspired in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mikrophonie and meant as a celebration of friendship and being together in these strange times, the piece consists on a "chef" (Fei Nie) making dinner, a microphonist (Lorenzo Colombo) capturing the sounds and an electronic musician (Xavier Bonfill) processing and manipulating the sounds in real-time.
Released during the first covid-19 lockdown, this album is a compilation of improvisations and sketches from my home studio in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. The recordings span from early 2018 up to March 2020 and most of them were never meant to be "pieces" or "tracks". I find there is something appealing about them, just because of that. Listening back to all this music, I can't honestly remember how I did half of it. It almost feels like someone else's music. I like that.
I hope you like it too.
released March 20, 2020
Heptagon is a short electronic piece, in two movements, that is inspired in Else Marie Pade's tape music piece "syv cirkler" from 1958. It was premiered in a concert by the group Neko3 organised by "Moderne Mandag".
This is an UHJ stereo mix, which is a reduction from the original surround ambisonic mix.
released February 22, 2019
Composed, performed, produced and recorded it while travelling around China and Hong Kong while sitting on the plane, on the train, and in hotel rooms. These five semi-improvised “sketches" are small exercises in using constraints as a tool for creativity.
released May 16, 2018
Three short electronic pieces from my back catalogue slightly revised and newly mixed in UHJ Stereo. The pieces were originally composed between 2011 and 2014 and they originate from completely different projects, but they are somehow cohesive from a sound perspective.
released August 11, 2017
"IX=? B (Made in Japan)" is an EP with remixes that belong to the orbits of the "9=0" album. "IX=?" stands for "9=0" in Roman numbers (there's no 0!). This is the second release of this kind, after "IX=? A".
This EP features remixes by four Tokyo based producers: canooooopy, mus.hiba, lidly and axion117