K O - H U M is a Berlin based company which curates, develops and promotes stimulating projects by artists working across sound, music, visual and performing arts.
Through close dialogue with a range of collaborators, the company supports artists in releasing their works, facilitating performances and establishing authentic ventures with cultural institutions, bookings, media outlets and venues.
At the heart of the company's practice is a process-based relationship between artist and audiences, which seeks to give the projects space to find their own rhythm, public outputs, and discourse.
Founded in 2017, K O - H U M ’s core aim is to foster a dialogue between a range of disciplines by providing a platform where adventurous minds can encounter art that contextualizes, interprets, educates and expands culture, leading us to the edges of the contemporary experience.
[SUB026] JAMES GINZBURG - SIX CORRELATIONS [SUBTEXT RECORDINGS]
DIGITAL MARKETING, PRESS & COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT
'Six Correlations' was originally composed for a commissioned performance in Berlin and recorded in early 2018 over three days.
The project explores the intersections between traditional music from various cultures, with a particular focus on Gaelic folk music native to the remote island regions of Scotland, where half of Ginzburg’s family originates from. It incorporates influences of Iranian traditional music, Indian classical and generative composition techniques.
The album explores the relationship between the organic and the digital world as a meditation on whether modernity implicitly represents a long slow goodbye to nature: a long slow goodbye to everything that is not integrated into the networked world. The response to the disappearance of both nature and non-digital culture is presented here as an aspiration to imagine and communicate an harmonious relationship between the organic and the technological.
Produced using a hand drum, piano, voice, shruti box and Roland SH-101, six correlations brings together many of the influences from the Subtext artists James Ginzburg has worked with over the last years, such as Turkish artist and percussionist Cevdet Erek, Swedish composer Ellen Arkbro, Paul Purgas, and recent releases on Arc Light Editions such as 'Salm', an LP of Gaelic Psalm singing from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
James Ginzburg is one half of Emptyset, founder of Subtext Recordings, and co-curator of the Arc Light Editions imprint with Jennifer Allan.
Release date:
October 18. 2018
Format:
album, digital & CD
Label management:
Publishing:
'Six Correlations' is available on
Subtext Bandcamp, iTUNES, Spotify
More info
K O - H U M