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Juliana Day
Juliana’s music uses a haunting combination of the lower family of recorders, whistles, vocalisations, found sounds and field recordings, building up looped layers and ambient, improvised textures. Described as “fascinating and contemplative” (Jazzwise), her music takes influence from choral music, folk music, minimalism and artists such as Tim Hecker, Kali Malone, Steve Reich, Ichiko Aoba, William Basinski and Pauline Oliveros.
Her debut album “lull”, commissioned by NFOJAiM, and released on New Jazz and Improvised Recordings explores interludes- things that serve “in between” functions- places, periods of time, journeys, dreams and stages of life. Periods of rest and stillness, but also periods of change, uncertainty and transition. Made up of seven improvised tracks the album also features on two of these harpist Manon McCoy and hammer dulcimer player Zebedee Budworth.
Her other projects include co-running Emergence Collective, a group made up of over 30 Sheffield musicians who perform live, improvised minimalism, and performing live improvised silent film scores.
Press Quotes
"fascinating and contemplative" - Jazzwise
"utterly, soul-wrenchingly beautiful"- Joyzine
“haunting and comforting at the same time” -Panurus Productions
"that was a real journey wasn't it? The deft use of echo there to create this sinuous texture of sound. That was absolutely beautiful" - Freeness, BBC Radio 3
"seriously spectacular stuff" - Ingrown Radio
“lull builds from a strengthening foghorn tone whilst waves of sound create the fog through which the notes sound. It is music that surrounds and envelopes”
Bebop Spoken Here
Emergence Collective
Juliana co-directs Emergence Collective, who build beautiful, minimalist sound worlds that gradually evolve through improvised performance. Featuring a revolving lineup and a vibrant mix of ancient and modern instruments, the ensemble brings together exciting combinations of the North’s finest improvisors, generating a hypnotic kaleidoscope of sound, completely unique to every live performance and every space they perform in.
The group has sold out venues across the north, released several albums, and run workshops exploring their creative process.
Their latest album 'Fly Tower' was recorded live in the Abbeydale Picturehouse Fly Tower, Sheffield- a four storey high room located behind the main theatre room of an iconic Sheffield former 1920s cinema, which was historically used to hoist scenery.
“Dislodged from time, fragments of older and folkier traditions seep into contemporary ones in their compositions with seamless grace, ornate patterns ambling through the reverberant space they're enclosed in” The Quietus
Concealed/Classified 5 For Juliana Day
In this collaboration, composer Ben Gaunt wrote Juliana a set of short, confidential text guidelines for improvisation. Here she interprets these instructions for alto recorder/voice and delay.
"that was a real journey wasn't it? The deft use of echo there to create this sinuous texture of sound, and the pauses, that draws the ear in. That was absolutely beautiful" - Corey Mwamba. BBC Radio 3
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