Another round of Mere Mortals with the amazing @sfballet crew is finished. Was even joined in the pit by my buchla teacher @sevwave for one of the shows. We are bringing it to Edinburgh festival and London @sadlers_wells end of August. First single of the score from an upcoming album is out now via @dgclassics
We are excited to announce the DG-debut of Sam Shepherd - aka @floatingpoints - with an extended track for synths and orchestra entitled Falling to Earth, recorded with the @sfballet Orchestra.
This single is an extended excerpt from the upcoming album Mere Mortals, a recording of the artist’s debut ballet score.
Inspired by the myth of Pandora, Mere Mortals was premiered in January 2024, directed by @rojotamara , with choreography by @aszurebarton and design and visuals by @hamill_industries . Shepherd played synths live with the @sfballet orchestra during the production’s successful first run, and was reunited with the orchestra to record the work for DG.
🎧 Discover Falling to Earth on your preferred streaming platform!
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Visuals by @hamill_industries
Back in San Francisco performing my ballet Mere Mortals with @sfballetorch from Friday for a week, 11 shows! Also, this movement from it is out next week…! @dgclassics@sfballet
Sam Shepherd aka @floatingpoints didn't just compose the score for Mere Mortals, he built a sonic world. Next week, he brings it to life in the Opera House, performing live alongside the SF Ballet Orchestra at every show. April 24–May 4.
CALIFORNIA folk- I’ll be bringing the entire @sunflowersoundsystem to @headtripindio in October for the entire festival. All 8 stacks, acoustically treated tent, lineup of myself and some friends - I’m figuring out at the mo! Can’t wait to share this sound with yall- it’s a lot! Pics from Dek and @jasonevansfoto
New music out today!. Corner of my Eye. On Bandcamp and streamers. when @leotaylorgrooves@ideophone_music@kirkisssss and @zongamin_uk were touring the Elaenia LP with me we would rehearse and jam in my old studio. Out of those sessions came Kuiper (recorded at 7am!) and this one which I’ve always liked but never known what to do with… Leo took this video from the recording in my old studio in Hackney in 2017 and sent it to me. Was a nice session so I thought let’s share it! Hope u enjoy🤠 Sam
10 years of Eleania today! So much has happened since then and thanks to everyone that has supported me and my musical ideas over all these years!! I was just looking through some pics from 2015 and found this harmonograph I built to make the artwork for the LP.. I turned my studio into a dark room, and used a fiber optic source controlled by beats from the buchla system onto photographic paper instead of a pen .. it worked..! There’s a remastered extended version of the LP out now 🥰
In November it’ll be 10 years since Elaenia was first released!! To mark the anniversary, there’s a remastered version of the vinyl, which features a track that didn’t make it to the album, Precursor + @dinkededition are releasing an exclusive vinyl which includes 7 harmonographs that I created with the help of @jasonevansfoto . Pre-orders are available now. Links in the usual place.
