Jan St. Werner Announces New Album 'Glottal Wolpertinger'

Sonic innovator Jan St. Werner has announced the release of his new record Glottal Wolpertinger. Originally commissioned for contemporary art exposition documenta 14 as a radio installation, the project will be released as a limited-run LP on May 3rd. Alongside the announcement, Werner has shared a new track from the record, "Glottal Wolpertinger Feedback Band 3 / B", featuring contributions Aaron & Bryce Dessner of The National. Recently, Werner collaborated with the Dessners on The National's Sleep Well Beast and I Am Easy To Find, and with his duo Mouse on Mars on their album Dimensional People.

Jan St. Werner is a critically acclaimed and internationally recognized sound innovator. In a myriad of ways - as a solo artist, a collaborator, a producer, as a course instructor at MIT, or as a professor of Dynamic Acoustic Research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremburg - Werner has challenged traditional approaches to creating and experiencing music. Glottal Wolpertinger's sprawling pieces consist of microtonally tuned feedback, multispectral drones which Werner modulated and filtered with a purposeful, and indeed vocalized, emphasis given to the different frequencies and textures used. His multilayered presentation of the project - as a radio broadcast and live performance for documenta 14, and now a recording, highlights how context influences our experience of sound and music, even within one consistent work.

Werner will perform music from Glottal Wolpertinger in Berlin on April 12th at Schlesische Straße 38, as part of a line-up also featuring his collaborator in Mouse on Mars Andi Toma.

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