ENGELEN, WILLIAM - Falten

"After Today, The Organ Has Played Beautifully Again (ET 864-05LP) and 32 bpm (ET 864-09LP) from 2019, Edition Telemark presents three new LPs by Dutch sound artist William Engelen, released on the occasion of his exhibition 'Klinkt goed' at Kunstmuseum Den Haag. All three LPs are released separately but may be listened to as a whole because they portray three work groups that are representative of Engelen's compositional methods: Falten, Verstrijken, and Gebrauchsspuren. In Falten (folds), Engelen asks musicians to play and interpret pieces of folded paper. Falten scores exist in different sizes, ranging from about 60cm x 30cm up to works that are ten meters long. They consist of a piece of paper with stave-like lines drawn on it. The paper has been folded -- sometimes with origami-like proficiency that adds a sculptural element to each Falten score -- so that the lines collide, intersect, crisscross, disappear into folds, etc. The staves then represent sound, the parts of the paper t