{"product_id":"o-malley-stephen-avaeken","title":"O' Malley, Stephen - Avaeken","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican experimental composer, Stephen O’Malley, releases \u003cem\u003eAvaeken\u003c\/em\u003e, two sides of immense, immersive, self-annihilating music \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe record preserves site-specific work: O’Malley installed \u003cem\u003eAvaeken\u003c\/em\u003e as part of Wish You Were Here, the exhibition by renowned American artist, Banks Violette, underscoring the tension between presence and absence, life and loss.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eO’Malley and Violette have developed a distinct language of sound, space, and sculpture over the past two decades, reverberating through the walls of world-class institutions from The Guggenheim and Centre Pompidou to prominent galleries such as Maureen Paley in London, Gladstone Gallery in NYC, and Antwerp’s TICK TACK, the brutalist space where Wish You Were Here unfolded in early 2026. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmerging now as an LP, \u003cem\u003eAvaeken\u003c\/em\u003e presents power and phenomena: low-frequency vibrations, deep oscillations, and phase cancellations that translate as innately effective in any environment. Violette’s visual expression — the impossibility of locating yourself within the loss of a friend and the broader decay of culture — now fills the LP sleeve and feels inextricable from O’Malley’s sound, both still without resolution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe origins of \u003cem\u003eAvaeken\u003c\/em\u003e date back to 2020, when O’Malley was commissioned by the ZWERM electric guitar quartet of Belgium. He rendered the piece, naming it after the millennium-plus-old oak tree on Sweden’s island of Fårö, for four guitarists on standard electric guitars, sustaining microtonal harmony produced with ebows and slides.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DAIS Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":51604370718998,"sku":"RMX-71676","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/6a60d61f1229e07baa0d13a5.jpg?v=1784812034","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/o-malley-stephen-avaeken","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}