"We’d been thinking about getting a dog for a couple of years, but it was always tricky to work out a good time amongst the regular travel... I see now that I replied to Fielding Hope’s invitation to make something for the Takuroku series the same day that Eli came to live with us in April 2020 and didn’t really anticipate how much his joyous presence and the ensuing impact of the bigger picture would make difficult what would have previously been a simple task. So, here is my piece — at the tail end of things."
TAKUROKU / TR168
Digital synthesis, speakers, percussion.
Recorded July/August 2021, Spaden / Sweden.
Cover design by Oliver Barrett
John Chantler is a musician and organiser living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesis and exploring the aesthetic implications of different infrastructure for electronic music performance.
Originally from Australia he spent a decade in London before moving to Sweden in 2014 where he has directed an annual festival for ‘other music’ in Stockholm called Edition and runs Fönstret — releasing music by local artists and surfacing material from the festival’s archives.
His solo recording Tomorrow is too late (October 2019, ROOM40) was originally commissioned by INA GRM for the 2018 Présences Électronique festival in Paris. His most recent release Hell or High Water (2023) is a collaboration with Daniel M Karlsson for computer controlled analog synthesis.