Arandel is a multi-instrumentalist who would like his true identity to remain in the background for this project. Remaining anonymous to stay free to explore every given possibility, all underpinned by experimental music: Arandel is a new pop craftsman, brought up on krautrock, electro and New York minimalism.

Like Matthew Herbert and his PCCOM (Personal Contract for the Composition Of Music) – which established, amongst other things, that he would refrain from using samplers – Arandel laid down as a fundamental rule to only use sounds that he himself had recorded. This constraint formed the basis of the project: creating music in an authentic and honest way, using only the sounds of ‘real’ instruments.

In D is an homage to Terry Riley’s In C and its legendary score, devised so that it may be played by any number of instruments. In D features lush instrumentation - each sound, each vocal snippet on the album has been used as a sample, an expressionist motif, and has been combined with others to achieve a mix of intensity and sobriety, resulting in multi-layered 3D pieces of music. In D is a spatial work, riddled with details and ‘micro-accidents’ that put the finishing touches to its lo-fi surface. According to Arandel, chance is the element that leads to overall coherence.

For C3 Arandel will perform In D live with another multi-instrumentalist.

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