Biography
Kali Malone crafts post-minimalist works that employ particular tuning systems, encompassing pieces for choirs and chamber ensembles alongside both acoustic and electronic instruments. Although chiefly recognized for her pipe organ compositions, notably the widely praised 2019 album The Sacrificial Code, she has also issued electro-acoustic drone recordings such as Living Torch in 2022 and has joined efforts that extend from noise into shoegaze territory. With guitarist Stephen O'Malley and cellist Lucy Railton she produced the 2023 release Does Spring Hide Its Joy.
Born in Colorado in 1994, she relocated to Stockholm in 2012 to pursue studies in electro-acoustic composition. There she took part in the Golden Offence Orchestra, directing an arrangement of the Pauline Oliveros composition "To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in recognition to their desperation." She further performed in the experimental audiovisual ensemble Hästköttskandalen alongside Ellen Arkbro and Maria W. Horn, and served as frontwoman of the shoegaze band Swap Babies. Together with Horn she established the label and concert series XKatedral in 2016.
Malone issued multiple limited-edition cassettes featuring collaborations with Arkbro and Caterina Barbieri; her debut full-length LP, Velocity of Sleep, followed in 2017. The next year Ascetic House brought out the EP Organ Dirges 2016-2017, while Hollow Ground released Cast of Mind, an album of horn-based drones. Early in 2019 she joined Acronym for the ambient techno EP The Torrid Eye on Stilla Ton. iDEAL Recordings then presented the nearly two-hour pipe-organ collection The Sacrificial Code, which swiftly drew acclaim from critics and audiences alike. In 2020 she issued the rehearsal tape Studies for Organ and appeared on Agalma, the fourth solo album by former Coil member Drew McDowall.
She contributed a work to Important Records' 2021 anthology The Harmonic Series Vol. 2 alongside composers including Tashi Wada and Catherine Lamb. Living Torch, commissioned by the electro-acoustic studio GRM and issued on its Portraits GRM imprint, appeared in 2022. Malone recorded the three hour-long drone pieces that form Does Spring Hide Its Joy with O'Malley and Railton; Ideologic Organ released the album in 2023.
Born in Colorado in 1994, she relocated to Stockholm in 2012 to pursue studies in electro-acoustic composition. There she took part in the Golden Offence Orchestra, directing an arrangement of the Pauline Oliveros composition "To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in recognition to their desperation." She further performed in the experimental audiovisual ensemble Hästköttskandalen alongside Ellen Arkbro and Maria W. Horn, and served as frontwoman of the shoegaze band Swap Babies. Together with Horn she established the label and concert series XKatedral in 2016.
Malone issued multiple limited-edition cassettes featuring collaborations with Arkbro and Caterina Barbieri; her debut full-length LP, Velocity of Sleep, followed in 2017. The next year Ascetic House brought out the EP Organ Dirges 2016-2017, while Hollow Ground released Cast of Mind, an album of horn-based drones. Early in 2019 she joined Acronym for the ambient techno EP The Torrid Eye on Stilla Ton. iDEAL Recordings then presented the nearly two-hour pipe-organ collection The Sacrificial Code, which swiftly drew acclaim from critics and audiences alike. In 2020 she issued the rehearsal tape Studies for Organ and appeared on Agalma, the fourth solo album by former Coil member Drew McDowall.
She contributed a work to Important Records' 2021 anthology The Harmonic Series Vol. 2 alongside composers including Tashi Wada and Catherine Lamb. Living Torch, commissioned by the electro-acoustic studio GRM and issued on its Portraits GRM imprint, appeared in 2022. Malone recorded the three hour-long drone pieces that form Does Spring Hide Its Joy with O'Malley and Railton; Ideologic Organ released the album in 2023.
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