Kali Malone
Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
Record Labels
Artist Biography
Kali Malone composes and performs with a clarity of vision. Her music is patient and focused, built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances; letting go of expectations of duration and breadth offers a space for reflection and contemplation. In her hands, experimental reinterpretations of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods and historical tuning systems become portals to new ways of perceiving harmony, structure, and introspection.
Malone’s music for pipe organ, choir, chamber ensembles, and electroacoustic formats has quickly risen to international critical acclaim. She has performed extensively, presenting her music at Lincoln Center, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France, Rockefeller Chapel, Grace Cathedral, The Southbank Center, Bozar, Schauspielhaus, Berghain, Unsound Festival, Berlin Atonal, and Kanal Pompidou amongst many other museums, contemporary art spaces, concert halls, churches, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Australia. Her commissioned work and residencies include the Ina GRM, The Venice Biennale, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orgelpark, and Lafayette Anticipations. She has collaborated and performed with various artists, including Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, Caterina Barbieri, Macadam Ensemble, Leila Bordreuil, and Drew McDowall.
Originally from Colorado, Malone relocated to Stockholm in 2012. She is currently based between Stockholm and Paris.
Malone’s music for pipe organ, choir, chamber ensembles, and electroacoustic formats has quickly risen to international critical acclaim. She has performed extensively, presenting her music at Lincoln Center, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France, Rockefeller Chapel, Grace Cathedral, The Southbank Center, Bozar, Schauspielhaus, Berghain, Unsound Festival, Berlin Atonal, and Kanal Pompidou amongst many other museums, contemporary art spaces, concert halls, churches, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Australia. Her commissioned work and residencies include the Ina GRM, The Venice Biennale, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orgelpark, and Lafayette Anticipations. She has collaborated and performed with various artists, including Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, Caterina Barbieri, Macadam Ensemble, Leila Bordreuil, and Drew McDowall.
Originally from Colorado, Malone relocated to Stockholm in 2012. She is currently based between Stockholm and Paris.
Selected Press
With its slow, purified and seemingly austere qualities The Sacrificial Code guides us through an almost trance-inducing process where we become vulnerable receptors for every slight movement, where every miniature shift in sound becomes magnified through stillness.
Boomkat
Malone’s solo collection of pipe organ musings seems rich with the kind of divinity only discovered alone, in an inner wilderness […] These are less dirges than devotionals, holy modal communions with sound and space and self. The music remains minimal in that it is unadorned, naked. And by revealing all, nothing need be implied...
The Wire
...a series of firm, calming, unbroken stares.
The Wire
Magisterial, glacial, attention-demanding and powerful exposition of Buchla 200 synth tones mapped to acoustic woodwind and brass […] a quartet of diaphanous and slowly unfolding electro-acoustic landscapes that externalise a highly personalised form of emotive topography.
Boomkat
After listening to more of her work I am sure that something has been altered in me — something fundamental about the way that I listen, and the feeling of listening, and how those experiences are able to make me feel. Perhaps this is because of the way that so much of her work humbly and intricately explores some of the most basic fabrics of music, like harmony, and tuning systems, and time, and tells the stories of each in voices I want to completely stop with, absorb, and engage.
Tiny Mix Tapes