Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore will present their joint album Tragic Magic on 19 April at Silent Green in Berlin. It marks the first collaboration between the singer and the harpist, moving between ambient, minimal music and folk.
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Loops, harp, voice
Julianna Barwick has developed an ambient style in which her voice forms the foundation. She layers sung loops into slowly shifting mobiles and combines them with subtle synthesiser sounds. The classically trained Mary Lattimore uses her instrument in a similar way, looping individual figures through delays into complex formations and at times processing the sound of the harp with effects units.
For Tragic Magic, the duo bring these methods together, with Barwick using her voice differently from piece to piece. Some of the tracks are almost pure instrumentals, occasionally animated by drum-machine beats. For the most part, however, both use their approach to shape reduced ambient songs of an introspective character. There are also touches of sacred music, used to speak of things such as loss and to create a quiet form of beauty.
