
Miłosz Kędra - Their Internal Diapasons [Pointless Geometry - 2025]Primarily relying on the resonant sections of discarded pipe organs, Miłosz Kędra has crafted an album that is something greater than the sum of its jettisoned limbs. In short, repurposing, or reusing, really, pipe organ segments is a kind of aesthetic program within the field of musical composition, something akin to ragpicking in the 19th century. Kędra, a young student of electroacoustic music, is surely aware of the heritage of such activities – scavenging his native Poland for pipe organ remnants – and what it means for a way of making music, and perhaps even a way of surviving and world-building, too. The ethos, if there is in fact one to speak of (I am just guessing here, not referring to anything Kędra explicitly said), reflects more than a desire to reanimate that which has been cast off – religion, ritual, community, or something for which we no longer have a name. Giving voice (quite literally) to the forgotten is also an archival, historical project in which sounding is placed alongside other forms of remembrance.
The results are mixed, of course, as they should be, and across the nine compositions that make up their internal diapasons, said pipes are manipulated, played, and processed in a variety of applications. On "ouroboros", segments are played like a flute, whereas on the following track, "drzazgi", the metal tubes shimmer as resonant chambers in service of a darker, more drone-y spirit. Throughout the deployments, one fact remains clear: the pipes do not sound together in any sort of harmony. No, the discrete segments remain as such, never blending or assimilating to a larger whole. This last point feels deliberate, putting the minimalist legacy of discrete music and composition into the discarded finds of the present, toward a future beset with abundance and uncertainty.
Fans of minimalist pipe organ music will find some compelling new material here, as well as those ideologues who wish to see recycling invade all aspects of creative life.      Colin Lang
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