ODOPHONICS for Choir and Scent
Collaboration with scent artist Brian Goeltzenleuchter
Scent Art Festival 2026 Riga Latvia
May 6-10 Creative Factory Veldze
performed by Jāzeps Madinš Riga Secondary School of Music Mixed Choir
artistic leader: Nora Žeigue / conductor: Tomass Meri
PAST:
SINGAPORE BIENNALE
SIX (the hexad) sound installation Tanjong Pakar Distripark
Feb 20-Mar 29 10am-4pm Singapore Art Museum
PRESTON SWIRNOFF ::: TOWARD ALL SUNS
Performances & Installations October 2025
BONIFACIO, CORSICA PARIS, FRANCE ZAGREB, CROATIA THESSALONIKI, GREECE SOFIA, BULGARIA
Crossing the Steppe LP out now on Set Spaces.
Listen and order here
Swirnoff uses only acoustic instruments with subtle tape manipulation and the natural reverb of a large warehouse space to create a haunting atmosphere inspired by the terrain of the Great Steppe, the vast ecoregion connecting Europe to Asia, a mysterious winding trail that blurs our traditional boundaries of East/West. Detuned guitars, unidentified percussion, bells, hurdy gurdy, reed organ, kalimba, autoharp, double flutes, natural materials, vocalizations with breath and whistling, passing trains, running footsteps, insistent knocking on an old wooden door, coalesce in a suite of intimate songs and interludes that evoke a fragile dreamlike state. It is the sonority of one faced with a momentous journey, whether internal or out on the open road.
The music revels in the hidden spaces between the physical and symbolic, haunting and entrancing, as the album transports the listener to a floating purgatory, a disorienting unmappable locale.
