Abstract and computational yet deeply human, the compositions of electronic musician and sound artist Jessica Ekomane evoke a contradictory feeling of both hyperactivity and slowness. Her droning synthesis investigates the outer reaches of polyphonic possibility; in the ensuing “multiphonic” universe that's summoned, sources and timbres diffract and coalesce like distant headlights in the fog. On her side of a split LP with Laurel Halo, Ekomane's composition Manifolds (2024) bursts with sparkling oscillations and undulating microtonalities – whose pitchshifting meanderings sound at points like cries for help and at others like gleeful yelps of joy. Notes bubble up and then dissipate like ripples in a calm lake; blankets of noise defy their computer-generated bounds as they squirm with animated and unpredictable urgency. Questioning the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics, her cathartic work deftly unfolds as an interplay between psychoacoustics, rhythmic structures, noise, and melody.

Presented in collaboration with Festival Musica and La Muse en Circuit – CNCM.