Kali Malone's critically acclaimed album "The Sacrificial Code" is a major work featuring almost two hours of concentrated pipe organ pieces with profound emotional resonance.
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. As such, it's a uniquely satisfying exercise in transcendence through self-restraint, a striking realization of ideas borne out of academic and conceptual rigor which gradually reveals profound personal dimensions. It has a perception-altering quality that encourages self-exploration free of signposts and without a preordained endpoint.
Kali Malone (born 1994 in Colorado) is an American composer and musician based in Stockholm. Her compositions implement specific tuning systems in minimalist structure for pipe organ, choir, chamber music ensembles, and electroacoustic formats. Malone's music is rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations. The music emits distinct emotive, dynamic, and affective hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus.
Kali Malone has performed extensively in Europe and North America at Musica Festival, Berlin Atonal, Moogfest, Kanal Pompidou, Elbphilharmonie, Paris Philharmonie, and Radio France. Her commission projects and residencies include the Ina GRM, Berlin Monom, The Richard Thomas Foundation, MACBA, Macadam Ensemble, Orgelpark, Elektronmusikstudion and Tempo Reale. She collaborates and performs with various artists, including
Stephen O'Malley,
Lucy Railton, Frederikke Hoffmeier, Leila Bordreuil, Drew McDowall,
Caterina Barbieri, and Ellen Arkbro. In 2016 she co-founded the record label and concert series
XKatedral, together with Maria W. Horn, in Stockholm.
