Aske Vang is a tonmeister and self-taught composer. His works stem from a deep love of both the written music and the recorded media – the balance between the mystery of the elusive written music and the concrete interpretation and practical choices a production requires. The most important works in his musical understanding has been Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and the study of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. These two opposing styles combined with his background in rhythmic music are what creates his sound.

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ASKE VANG

music for working body

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Label
Fresh Ribes
Format
Digital
Release Date
November 7, 2025
Territory
EU

TRACKLISTING

01. Wakening
02. Thinking
03. Repairing
04. Digestion
05. Entropy

Music for the Working Body depicts the unconscious autonomous functions of the body — how each function works like a cog in a machine to create systems we are all a part of, and how these functions eventually decay and fall into entropy. It's an image of the cosmic paradox: the constant push and pull between order and chaos. The composition experiments with patterns and systems until they interlock in specific and satisfying ways, only to let them drift apart and become a structure struggling to hold itself together. It's at a crossroads between traditional classical composition and modern rhythmic production techniques — playing with minimalistic structures, romantic gestures and modern sensibilities.

The piece was recorded one musician at a time, all eighty parts, and stacked digitally to create a coherent soundscape. This approach allows for a higher level of expressiveness, since it's not only the musicians interpreting the music, but also the production. This is achieved because of the greater control this technique offers over every aspect of each sound and how it relates to every other sound. It also enables the use of heavily altering effects such as delays, distortions, reverbs and even phaser and flanger. In addition, working in this fashion, one can achieve a very high level of detail in articulation and precision in each part that exceeds what's possible in a live setting. All this has been exploited to the utmost degree to keep the production exciting and evolving all the way through.

The use of this recording method in classical music is so sparse that Aske can only name a single other example, which is far from exploring the full potential of this technique. This is his first attempt at showing the versatility of what this type of recording can offer.

Aske Vang is a tonmeister and self-taught composer. His works stem from a deep love of both the written music and the recorded media – the balance between the mystery of the elusive written music and the concrete interpretation and practical choices a production requires. The most important works in his musical understanding has been Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and the study of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. These two opposing styles combined with his background in rhythmic music are what creates his sound.

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