Jordan Whites »Music for Imaginary Spaces«

The question the project starts from is what music sounds like in spaces that were never built. Jordan White spent two years on it — studying room acoustics, rebuilding reverb algorithms from the 1970s and 80s, constructing his own imaginary rooms in code, and taking the Orthodox church singing of Georgia, Armenia and Byzantium as a foundation. The house promises beautiful brass textures, melodies drawn from church song, and minimalist improvisation. Six players bring it: two trombones, horn, electric guitar, electric bass and drums. Reverb is usually the thing an engineer adds afterwards; here it is the subject.