{"product_id":"matt-choboter-visceral-totems-improvisations-for-microtonal-prepared-piano","title":"Matt Choboter – Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003e“This release consists of 10 spontaneously composed pieces recorded in several locations around Copenhagen and spanning the period of 2022-2024. “Visceral Totems” captures an unfiltered visceral expression that feels raw, exposed and honest. A way that I would play for myself while being alone. Evoking the plane of dreams and absorbing the mytho-spiritual worlds of South Indian Classical and Balinese Gamelan music, this release bridges expansive territories between avant-jazz, contemporary experimental, and ambient music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pieces were captured during several searching periods where my piano became a laboratory and labyrinth for sound discovery and thereby self discovery. Everything heard is an open process continually unfolding and flowing. A bodily interplay of rhythmics, the pieces seek a dancing quality - a careful moment-to moment self-ritual in sounds both unfamiliar and becoming familiar. I can visualize the musical motifs as shadow puppets (wayang kulit) animated by the spontaneous movements of a flickering flame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pieces work in various new tuning systems with the application of intensive piano preparations. Other than the second last track (recorded on a grand piano) the remaining pieces were recorded on a custom-made upright piano that features a smaller pitch range and also only 1-string per note. As a result, the sounds become more direct and tactile.” – Matt Choboter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDanish-based Canadian composer and pianist, Matt Choboter’s music paints subliminal sound narratives within Contemporary Music. Informed by non-western cultures and eclectic spiritualism, he embraces liminal psychology and dream work; a panpsychist ecology; and a musical practice which absorbs distinct features of Just Intonation, South Indian classical and Balinese Gamelan. Nominated for composer of the year (2025 Danish Music Awards) he con- tributes to labels such as ILK Music (DK), Kairos (AU), Inner Circle Music (NY), and Songlines Recordings (CA) with music described as - “ephemeral and beautifully fragile” (Passive Aggressive, DK), “A realized musical dream” (MusicWorks, CA) and music that “expands and blows the mind” (London Jazz News). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatt Choboter – Visceral Totems: Improvisations for Microtonal Prepared Piano \u003cbr\u003eILK377 \u003cbr\u003eRelease date: 26th June 2026 (digital only)\u003cbr\u003eRecorded at the Krokodile Collective, lyd atelier (Copenhagen)\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by Matt Choboter\u003cbr\u003eMixed by Simon Mariegaard\u003cbr\u003eMastered by Sam Nacht\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Matt Choboter\u003cbr\u003eAlbum cover artwork: photograph by Matt Choboter. Indigenous artwork from the great gallery at horseshoe Canyon, Utah, USA. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ILK Music","offers":[{"title":"Digital","offer_id":54162455822669,"sku":null,"price":69.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/4183\/files\/Visceral_Totems_-_album_cover_photo-2.jpg?v=1782384046","url":"https:\/\/www.ilkmusic.com\/products\/matt-choboter-visceral-totems-improvisations-for-microtonal-prepared-piano","provider":"ILK Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}