Join us at Printed Matter for a sound performance from Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen (arbitrary, DK). Nielsen will present Heartbeats, an electronic live performance based on recordings from a remix collaboration with Chromacolor published in September 2024.

Nielsen will also improvise around material from his Black Box 3 vinyl release, which is based on synthesizer recordings, everyday sounds and radio archives. Afterwards, NYC artist Annie Garlid (UCC Harlo), who contributed voice recordings to the Chromacolor LP (s/t, 2023) and Heartbeats, will perform an experimental DJ set.

Heartbeats is the second in a series of 10” vinyl remix collaboration releases by Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor, with cover artwork by graphic designer Karel Martens. Side A features Heartbeats, a composition Nielsen originally made for a radio soundtrack. The track is derived from loops and granulations of sine waves and pulses from Nielsen’s modular synth, which he later combined with recordings of synthesized bass and layers of organ-like tones. Side B features a remix by German sound artist and producer Hanno Leichtmann under his Chromacolor moniker. Leichtmann worked with sounds from the original mix, combining it with his Hohner Guitaret, Fender Rhodes and Moog bass. Additional cello tones by Anthea Caddy and vocal contributions from Annie Garlid round out the remix.

Preorder Heartbeats here.

Mads Emil Nielsen is a Copenhagen based musician/composer working with basic sound sources, often combined with short percussive and orchestral samples, and the amplification of machine produced errors. In 2014 he founded the label and artistic platform arbitrary, on which he has released the Framework series of graphic scores and recordings, as well as solo works and collaborations including the Percussion Loops EP, the album Refound with Andrea Neumann, a series of remix collaborations with Chromacolor, and his Black Box series of works originally made for theatre, dance performances and radio soundtracks. Nielsen has also contributed to various exhibitions, including the Notations 21 Project. His music is featured on compilations by The Wire Magazine and raster-media.

Annie Garlid is a viola player, singer, and composer. In August 2024 she earned her PhD in musicology at New York University and is now a visiting lecturer there. As a performer, Annie works in early music, experimental music, and contemporary classical music. She appeared on Holly Herndon’s 2019 album PROTO and Caterina Barbieri’s 2019 album Ecstatic Computation. She has collaborated and performed with a number of other composers and artists, including Rosemarie Trockel, Bill Kouligas, Emptyset, Nile Koetting, Cat Lamb, Marc Sabat, and Laure M. Hiendl. She plays and sings with the Sebastians, Opera Lafayette, the American Classical Orchestra, the Cramer Quartet, De Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, the Netherlands Bach Society, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Tafelmusik. She released her debut album as UCC Harlo in 2019 and her second album, Topos, in 2023. Under that moniker she has since toured internationally, licensed her music to Chanel and JW Anderson, and produced remixes for the Amsterdam duo Know V.A. and the NYC artist NY Graffiti.