Aeolian Mixtape quinta
CD + DL | Out on Thu 24 Nov
"Quinta has such a fantastic feel for orchestral colour and the range of emotions that can be captured in music for strings." BBC Unclassified - Elizabeth Alker
Aeolian Mixtape is the third feature album of experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist Quinta.
During a recent period spent living in Greece, Quinta was inspired to design and hand-build Aeolian harps – harps which resonate with the wind.
The sound of the Aeolian harp is ethereal and distinctive, characterised by the rising and falling of harmonic frequencies swept into life by the wind. The sonority varies according to the strength and character of the wind and the various materials used to make each harp, including string type and length.
Quinta is a London-based music-maker and multi-instrumentalist. Her dad gave her this name when she was a baby as she was the youngest of five and a girl. Part of a new movement of independently-minded experimental female cross-over artists making work at the intersection of art/new music, electronics, the DIY, visual/video art, and pop, Quinta is particularly interested in improvisation, electronic interfacing and new instruments.
She works to present musical material in visually imaginative ways, using movement, dance, light, and homemade instruments and sample sets. Working across a number of fields including dance, circus and film, she has a richly diverse biography of collaborations, including with all-female arts collective, Collectress.
With a background in third sector activism, Quinta is co-founder of Music in Detention and spent formative years working with Music in Prisons and participatory film-makers, Living Lens. She was Music Fellow at Rambert 2015/16, British Council Musician-in-Residence China 2016/17 and PRS Composition Fund awardee 2019.
Quinta will perform music from the album at our upcoming Barbican Conservatory event the greenhouse effect.
Sun 12 Mar 2023
Tracklist
Meltemia
Dasos
Seirin
Pneuma
Horologion
Chloris
Aeolus, Keeper of the Winds
credits
releases November 24, 2022
Double bass by Thanos Polymeneas - Liontiris
Violin, viola, cello, electronics by Quinta
All compositions by Quinta
Recorded by Quinta except string improvisation sessions recorded and engineered by Thanasis Gikas at Studio Mythos, Athens
Edited and mixed by Quinta
Cover screenprint by Quinta
Cover design by Blue Maignien
Quinta thanks the PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund for supporting this project.
Watch the video premiere of Ben Nobuto's Baby Lexicon, performed by Abstruckt percussion quartet at our July gig.