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Description
Punkt Editions is proud to present With These Hands, a collaboration between Jan Bang and the Ensemble Modern. The title track from this collaboration moves like weather over shifting terrain: fluid, alive, always forming. Built from a series of open-ended modules, the piece invites the listener into an evolving soundscape: part score, part improvisation, part memory.
Every sound feels physical. Instruments breathe, scrape, shimmer; the performers' gestures shape the music in real time, their bodies in conversation with the instruments. This is not composition in a traditional sense, but a space for listening and shaping, where sound is both structured and set free.
Rather than layering, the piece creates spatial depth - a kind of sonic topography where each voice finds its own dimension. Caverns of resonance, filaments of breath, sudden fractures, glowing stillness. The music moves, but remains coherent, built not by uniform effort, but by many hands working attentively, responsively.
With These Hands reflects the act of making: not monumental, but intimate. A process of care, craft, and continual release into open air.
Tracklisting
Madmax
Jan Bang & Ensemble Modern
Tuva Halse Quintet
Eivind Aarset
Orbits
Bugge Wesseltoft
In The Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud
Girl Talk
Tim Richards Trio
Eddie Gripper
Rachel Sutton
South West Oldtime All Stars
Catherine Russell
Baby Dodds
Naissam Jalal
Judith Berkson; Trevor Dunn; Gerald Cleaver
