Elisa Metz – Glass Wands
Album release on *akʷā music
Out December 2nd, 2022, on all platforms (bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, etc.)
Elisa Metz is a Cologne based artist, art director and musician focusing on transmedia composition, performances and installations, such as the self-built glass instrument Nine Wands (2020).
For the album ‘Glass Wands’, the fragile glass sounds are processed by analogue synthesizers and combined with bass, accordion, timpani and vocals, resulting in delicate drone layers. The tracks are named after each wands’ colour, while their individual pitch forms the starting point for the catchy pop melodies. At the same time, the compositions remind of the early electronic experiments.
The tracks ‘Red’, ‘Green’ and ‘Blue’, which already appeared on the EP ‘Three Wands’ in December 2021, are included on the B-side of the record. Here the glass wands were combined with SOMA Lyra-8.
For the six new tracks on the A-Side, Elisa Metz discovered further possibilities of the glass instrument together with Cologne-based producer Julian Stetter, letting the glass sounds run through a modular synthesizer.
Release concert, performances and further installations are planned for 2023.
The project ‘Glass Wands’ was supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
Elisa Metz – Glass Wands
Album release on *akʷā music
Out December 2nd, 2022, on all platforms (bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, etc.)
Elisa Metz is a Cologne based artist, art director and musician focusing on transmedia composition, performances and installations, such as the self-built glass instrument Nine Wands (2020).
For the album ‘Glass Wands’, the fragile glass sounds are processed by analogue synthesizers and combined with bass, accordion, timpani and vocals, resulting in delicate drone layers. The tracks are named after each wands’ colour, while their individual pitch forms the starting point for the catchy pop melodies. At the same time, the compositions remind of the early electronic experiments.
The tracks ‘Red’, ‘Green’ and ‘Blue’, which already appeared on the EP ‘Three Wands’ in December 2021, are included on the B-side of the record. Here the glass wands were combined with SOMA Lyra-8.
For the six new tracks on the A-Side, Elisa Metz discovered further possibilities of the glass instrument together with Cologne-based producer Julian Stetter, letting the glass sounds run through a modular synthesizer.
Release concert, performances and further installations are planned for 2023.
The project ‘Glass Wands’ was supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.