CONFLUENCE (for pipe organ and voice) (2025)
‘Confluence (for pipe organ and voice)’ is a work by Dylan Kerr threaded by relationships between time, architecture, air, and breath. It unfolds through slowly growing organ intervals that meet and merge with the unamplified voice, progressively forming denser clusters of pitches that create complex interference patterns. As voice and organ weave in and out of one another, overtone singing reinforces the partials resonating in the space, forming one breathing, pulsating mass of sound.
Dylan Kerr (b. 1996, Ireland) is an artist working between performance and sound. Their practice is deeply attuned to place, often creating works that engage with the unique resonant qualities and histories of specific environments. They combine process-based methods, microtonality, and extended vocal techniques to explore psychoacoustic phenomena such as beating, interference patterns, and the interplay between the voice and space.
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« A point and a flowing. A joining together of two streams. Two breathing sources. Multidimensional and forever fluctuating. Still but never static. Opening up to a shared sense of time and space. Noise, noises. Bodies. Octaves awaken harmony. Horizontal lines etched in infinite space. Glistening surfaces and oceanic depths. Deftly shaped vocal formants give rise to overtone pedal notes or harmonic sweeps. Space within space. Glassy overtones chart what’s latent or implicit in the organ’s harmonic spectrum. Low to high. Low and high. Microtonal pulsations. Ghostly remnants. Bells in the horizon. » (Rebecca Lane)
For Ernstalbrecht Stiebler.
Thank you Colm Keady-Tabbal, Seán Being and Julian Bennett Holmes.
Credits
released December 5, 2025
Music composed and performed by Dylan Kerr.
Recorded live in St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University (NYC), February 2024. Mixed by James Ginzburg. Mastered by A.F. Jones, Laminal Audio.
Cover design by Discreet.
Photographs by Cy Klock.
© Discreet Editions, 2025.
Link to conversation between Dylan Kerr and Clara de Asís
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Review by Eoin Murray in his substack ‘Anois, Os Ard’
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