STAR'S END Update 10.19.25

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Works by Arjen Schat always seem to open up a magical space - a place where one may feel enlarged. Unweighted by the deliberations of the studio his LIVE AT DEMMF 2025 (51:48) presents five existing works which were performed on 6 September as part of the Dutch Electronic Masters Music Festival 2025. Truly each section of Schat's first concert album exists in a realm known only to the listener. Every movement of this recital comes with a certain temperament, a structure of feeling entirely its own - setting a cool, gorgeous fire, then shimmering unpredictably throughout the listening space. Soundtracks for the edge of day, descending into a twilight of expressive lead lines, broken chords and coursing arpeggio runs, reality is abandoned for a more vivid world of electronic sound. Along the canted angles and motor pulse of building sequencer lines we ascend a staircase of notes both hushed and rushed in this celebration of cognition and the thinking spirit. The mystery of this style of music is itself a symbol. The closer one listens the more differences surface - in the delicate tension between this playful evocation of the machine and palpable evidence of the human touch.

Please tune in to the 10.19.25 broadcast of STAR'S END for music from LIVE AT DEMMF 2025 the recent release from Arjen Schat, and much more...

For more on LIVE AT DEMMF 2025, please access: http://www.arjenschat.nl

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