Xavier Bonfill

Digital liner notes: haknam.dk/twp.html "During the Christmas holidays in 2019, I went on a trip to China with Fei, my life partner. We visited her hometown Beihai and its surroundings in the Guanxi province, as well as Shanghai. I brought a sound recorder with me and did some field recordings during the trip. I decided I would make a piece based on those field recordings, where the music is built...

Does anyone remember how to party? I clearly don't...

Trying to start 2021 right. Just a little improv on the modular, hope you enjoy :)

This is some sort of "official bootleg" from a live-streaming event on Instagram. Mikrofoodie is a special performance created in collaboration with Fei Nie and Lorenzo Colombo. Vaguely inspired in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mikrophonie and meant as a celebration of friendship and being together in these strange times, the piece consists on a "chef" (Fei Nie) making dinner, a microphonist (Lorenzo Co...

This is some sort of "official bootleg". Recorded live at home, on an Instagram Live streaming concert on May, the 2nd, 2020, 19h (CET). FREE DOWNLOAD / NAME YOUR PRICE ON BANDCAMP Check the link! :) Mixed & mastered from a Zoom H6 multi-track recording. credits released May 4, 2020 Music composed & performed by Xavier Bonfill on modular synthesizer, op1 & organelle.

Recorded live at Konservatoriets Koncertsal, Frederiksberg, DK Pulsar Festival 2019. Conductor: Jean Thorel Musicians: Solveig Kaae: a fl Inga Bøe: cl Ole Vetle Johansen: tbn Kalle Hakosalo: perc Rasmus Sørensen: pn Thea Jørgensen: vla Lars-Bo Hermansen: cb

Refshaleøen Tapes vol. I -> out on Bandcamp 2 four_part_drone This is a 10+ minute drone, perfect for staring at the walls. It features the Mutable Instruments Tides module: here used as an oscillator with 4 different variations, that can be multiples or subdivisions of its original frequency, creating beautiful chords (in just intonation) that correspond to polyrhythms. This was a big inspiration...

soundcloud Refshaleøen Tapes vol. I -> out on Bandcamp 3 #32_mindf***_b A wonky beat with some eurorack stuff and a Teenage Engineering PO-32. The PO-32 is a little drum machine that plays 16-step patterns. It is cool but everything ends up being music in 4/4. I found out that if I triggered it manually (from the modular) then I could f*** up with its timing. That made it much more fun. --- about...

soundcloud Refshaleøen Tapes vol. I -> out on Bandcamp 4 (interlude_a) Just a 40 second interruption for disrupting purposes. Enjoy it while it lasts. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings. Mostly, live-recordings and improvisations from my home st...

5 eat your pills Please ignore the title, is the first thing that came into my mind. This is just an op1 beat you can dance to. Now: start going around in circles in that little room where you have been sitting for these last couple weeks. You are welcome to scream your lungs out or just randomly hit on the walls. You can have it. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is curr...

6 sweep dreams I honestly don’t remember where I got that sound from. But you know: sweep dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree? --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings. Mostly, live-recordings and improvisations from my home studio in Refsha...

7 sketch #1 (live remix) This is a live remix of “sketch #1” from the EP “travel light” (2018) which I did on one take on the op1. I like to think of it like dreaming and floating on air, yet slowly rocking your body slightly back and forth. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to che...

8 sketch #2 (live remix) Another live remix from the “travel light” EP (2018). Some samples from the original track are pitched down rather extremely and played back from the STS (Stereo Triggered Sample) module by 4ms. The two independent samplers trigger each other automatically after the current sample has finished playing.. so altering the sample length of any of them causes the tempo to shake...

9 choir music If this were a tape, the “B-side” of the record would start with this track. A little choir music to start things up again. It is early in the morning and the tape speed is a bit wobbly, so the singers don’t sound much in tune. Performed on the op-1. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time in...

10 still there? (early demo) February 2018: I was biking on my way back home passing the harbour by Refshalevej. There was snow all around. I stopped by, took the op-1 out and recorded the vocals for this song. I still love pop songs. This one might be rearranged into something bigger at some point. But I also like it as a lo-fi sketch. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, i...

11 1825 days a very short op1 beat. Sample hint: how many years is 1825 days? --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings. Mostly, live-recordings and improvisations from my home studio in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. The recordings span from early 2018 unti...

12 a bit wired There were not a lot of wires on this track. But it got a bit wired, or weird. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings. Mostly, live-recordings and improvisations from my home studio in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. The recordings span from...

13 piano chords I wrote “YES FOR NO” for 3 soloists, symphony orchestra, electronics and light; all based on some strummed piano chords (playing inside the instrument) and the polyrhythms inside those chord frequencies. This is just me taking those samples out for a spin on the STS sampler by 4ms. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the C...

14 beskidt og roligt The title means “dirty and quiet” in Danish (and it is a not-so-smart word play with the expression “stille og roligt”). But it is indeed dirty, and it is indeed quiet… for the most part. --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings....

15 fosc The title means “dark” in Catalan. It is like the goth sister of the second track of the album, “four_part_drone”. Also featuring the Mutable Instruments Tides module. In a dizzier way though… --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought me to check into some archive recordings. Mostly,...

16 in c minor I never totally understood the attraction towards the c minor key in a lot of electronic music. But hey, I fall for that too sometimes. Just a Mutable Instruments Rings setting the tone for a party in a distopian future. A happy ending? --- about the album: Denmark, like most european countries, is currently on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All this time indoors brought...

Heptagon is a short electronic piece, in two movements, that is inspired in Else Marie Pade's tape music piece "syv cirkler" from 1958. It was premiered in a concert by the group Neko3 organised by "Moderne Mandag". All sounds were generated with a Make Noise "0Coast" semi-modular analog synth (with some other eurorack modules modulating it) and a Music Thing "Spring Reverb". This is an UHJ stereo...

Heptagon is a short electronic piece, in two movements, that is inspired in Else Marie Pade's tape music piece "syv cirkler" from 1958. It was premiered in a concert by the group Neko3 organised by "Moderne Mandag". All sounds were generated with a Make Noise "0Coast" semi-modular analog synth (with some other eurorack modules modulating it) and a Music Thing "Spring Reverb". This is an UHJ stereo...

Composed, performed & produced while travelling around the south of China and Hong Kong (March-April 2018) on a Teenage Engineering OP-1. Mixed in Copenhagen (May 2018) in UHJ Stereo. Composed, performed, produced, mixed & mastered by Xavier Bonfill

Composed, performed & produced while travelling around the south of China and Hong Kong (March-April 2018) on a Teenage Engineering OP-1. Mixed in Copenhagen (May 2018) in UHJ Stereo. Composed, performed, produced, mixed & mastered by Xavier Bonfill