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Cracks and Corrosion is the premiere Navona release from Swedish modern composer Örjan Sandred. The disc, also a debut release for Sandred, reflects his thrill for exploration into the unknown; a journey built off of traditional classical instrumentation veering into computer algorithms with traditional theory kept in mind.

Dedicated to the development of contemporary digital music technology and new composition methods, Sandred formed Studio FLAT; a computer music studio based at the University of Manitoba in Canada (where he teaches). Amanzule Voices, one of five of the album’s highly textured works, is a chamber work for cello and electronics based off of a field recording of African frogs the composer captured while traveling by canoe through the marshy lagoons of West Africa. Sandred’s ability to create these highly vivid environments in his compositions make this effort a low lights, heightened sense excursion for the serious listener. For all this, the composer provides a detailed map through the album’s abundant enhanced CD content, where he outlines the form, origin, and structuring of the music heard on Cracks and Corrosion through a formal analysis to his fascinating informal soundscapes.

Upon hearing a series of bloops and bleeps from a nearby lab, Chris investigates and discovers the FLAT Computer Studio and meets the University of Manitoba’s resident expert in computer composition Örjan Sandred.