Pointed Frequencies
Ben Kaczor & Niculin Barandun / Dial Records 2024
Pointed Frequencies is the debut album by Ben Kaczor and Niculin Barandun, released on Dial Records for the label’s 25th anniversary. Across six compositions, the duo moves between ambient music, free improvisation and psychoacoustic speculation.
The project began in 2022 with a carte blanche for an audiovisual performance at Digital Art Festival Zurich. During this process, Kaczor and Barandun developed a shared interest in sound as a spatial, bodily and contemplative medium. Ideas from sound therapy, binaural beats and solfeggio frequencies became part of the work, not as a promise of healing, but as material for a more open form of listening.
Pointed Frequencies unfolds as a slow-moving field of interwoven textures, unstable harmonics and intimate acoustic spaces. Calmness and melancholy meet more fractured, stochastic passages; the music oscillates between presence, drift and quiet intensity.
The live visuals and two accompanying short films were created by artist and director Marie Sutter. Her fluid abstractions of light and structural compositions extend the album into a visual space of nascent forms, reflections and suspended movement.
A poem by Carla Patricia Kojich is embedded in the track titles. The cover artwork was created by Inga Danysz, with graphic design by Sandro Weber / Atelier Maeve.
Credits
Written & Produced by Ben Kaczor & Niculin Barandun
Videos & Visuals: Marie Sutter
Mastering: Isabel Schröder / Scape
Mix: Laurent New
Artwork: Inga Danysz
Poem: Carla Patricia Kojich
Graphic Design: Sandro Weber / Atelier Maeve
Vinyl Pressing: R.A.N.D. Muzik
Physical Distribution: Kompakt
Digital Distribution: Wordandsound
Promotion: Thomas Braun
With kind support from Fachausschuss Film & Medienkunst BS/BL and RegioSoundCredit Basel.
mending space
– Carla Patricia Kojich
entering streams of mist
for visible becomes the rays
of light, time touches
the equilibrium
in transition
echoes of ephemeral
breathing
to the floating forest
folding futures present
wake the dust
in obscurity
the sea brings, waves
of casted silver
softly crawls, into moss we sink
shallow winds
in atoms kissing, harvest nights
forgotten lights. strain the end
of new beginnings