Fennesz has released ‘The Last Days of May’ digitally via Longform Editions, a curatorial music platform offering “absorptive listening experiences for the everyday”. The composition, recorded by Christian Fennesz in Vienna during 2024 and mastered by Simon Scott at SPS Mastering, was produced in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales for Volume 2024.

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 synthesisers 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.”

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