All Life Long is a cycle of twelve pieces for pipe organ, choir and brass quintet composed between 2020 and 2023. Kali Malone’s music is built on a foundation of evolving harmonic cycles that draw out latent emotional resonances. Her work is a reinterpretation of centuries-old polyphonic compositional methods that become portals to new ways of perceiving sound, structure and introspection.

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Kali Malone / All Life Long

Biographies

Kali Malone

The works of composer and sound artist Kali Malone implement specific tuning systems in minimalist structures for pipe organ, choir, chamber music ensembles, and electroacoustic formats. Malone’s compositions are rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations, emitting distinct emotive, dynamic, and affective hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus. Kali Malone's recently released albums The SacrificialCode [2019], Living Torch [2022], Does Spring Hide Its Joy [2023], and All Life Long [2024], quickly rose to international critical acclaim. She has performed extensively, presenting her music at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France, Rockefeller Chappel, Grace Cathedral, The Southbank Center, Bozar, Schauspielhaus, Unsound Festival, Musica Festival, Berlin Atonal, Moogfest, and Kanal Pompidou amongst many other museums, contemporary art spaces, concert halls, churches and festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Australia. Her commissioned work and invited residencies include the Ina GRM, The Venice Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Lafayette Anticipations, The Richard Thomas Foundation, MACBA, The and Elektronmusikstudion. She has collaborated and performed with various artists, including Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, Macadam Ensemble, Frederikke Hoffmeier, Leila Bordreuil, and Drew McDowall.

Originally from Colorado, Malone relocated to Stockholm in 2012. She is currently based between Stockholm and Paris.

Macadam Ensemble

Macadam Ensemble is a vocal group dedicated to the expressive potential of the human voice through the repertoire of ancient and contemporary choral music. By engaging in collaboration with artists, composers and performers of many musical styles and aesthetics, Macadam Ensemble seeks to renew the experience of choral music. Upholding the historical interpretation of early music as crossing the boundaries of new musical territories, each performance is an adventurous and enthusiastic experience.

Founded and directed by Etienne Ferchaud, Macadam Ensemble has worked with a wide range of artists such as Kali Malone, Stephen O'Malley, Gavin Bryars, Manuel Adnot, Augustin Belliot, Mathias Delplanque, Evelin Seppar, Stradivaria, Ensemble 0.

Based in Nantes (FR), Macadam Ensemble is the guest of festivals such as the Folle Journée de Nantes, the Estonian Music Days in Tallinn in Estonia, the Festival les Voutes Célestes in Vendée, the Festival de la Voix de Châteauroux, the Angers-Nantes Opera, the TAP in Poitiers, the Dijon Opera, Les Champs Libres in Rennes, Musique Sacrée à la Cathédrale de Nantes, Le Lieu Unique (Variations festival), The Philharmonie de Paris, l’abbaye de Fontevraud, the festival Le Rivage des Voix, Les Résonances Saint Martin in Angers, … Macadam Ensemble is the vocal ensemble associated with Fontevraud Abbey (FR) since September 2024.

Stephen O'Malley

Stephen O’Malley is a guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone and experimental music groups for over two decades – SUNN O))), KTL, and Khanate being among his best-known creations. Wildly prolific, O’Malley’s oeuvre is defined by its remarkable breadth, complexity and multidisciplinary interests. It includes collaborations with a wide range of experimental artists, including Scott Walker, Kali Malone, Alvin Lucier, choreographer Gisèle Vienne, the authors Dennis Cooper and Alan Moore, Peter Rehberg, Fujiko Nakaya, Jim Jarmusch, Johan Johansson, experimental music research centers IRCAM, INA-GRM (Paris), EMS (Stockholm) and many others. O’Malley is also a vigorous live performer and has toured around the world since 2000. His live performances feature a reverberating fog of electric guitar minimalism – sorcery that challenges boundaries of space and time.

Ensemble Contrechamps

Contrechamps is an ensemble of soloists specialized in creating, developing, and disseminating instrumental music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Ensemble is dedicated to highlighting the diversity of aesthetics and formats making up the contemporary and experimental scene. For over 40 years the Ensemble Contrechamps has been working hand in hand with many composers, conductors, and artists. The Ensemble is a hybrid, both orchestra and collective, which enables it to adapt to a variety of artistic constraints and to the proposals of the artists it works with. Contrechamps is also renowned for its accomplishments and is a regular guest on international stages and at prominent festivals. A colourful outreach program and exciting educational activities involving schools and museums allow Contrechamps to impart their passion to a public of all ages and from all walks of life, and to enrich and fortify the local cultural fabric. Besides, Contrechamps Editions publish significant books on contemporary music and organize Musique en dialogue, a series of conferences.