Music Video: Ignacio Córdoba & Agata Ciurkot - Luminiferous Aether

Danish record label Pink Cotton Candy line up the debut extended-player ‘Ephemeral, Basal’ from Copenhagen via Berlin production duo Ignacio Córdoba & Agata Ciurkot.

Following acclaim from Henry Rollins on KCRW and notable collaborations with Kazehito Seki and Michael Pisaro, Copenhagen-based multi-instrumentalist Córdoba teams up with Ciurkot for a neo-classical, machine-driven experience that transports listeners to the surreal depths of a phantasmagorical circus. Together, they expertly blend avant-garde experimentation with elements of archaic jazz and noise-infused ambient soundscapes

Today, we are pleased to premiere ‘Luminiferous Aether‘ – a crystalline ambient polyphony spiralling into the turmoils of illumination. The track encapsulates a meditative interplay of highly-luminescent frequencies and neo-classical piano textures infused with an invigorating human touch. It crescendos into a powerful blackout, surrounded by expansive, space-delayed echoes evoking a deep-seated catharsis. The label explains the concept for the music video:

“The music video is captured in a single take from one camera pointing down at an empty space where Ignacio Córdoba reacts visually in an improvised, focused, and spontaneous manner to the music. This situation reflects how Agata Ciurkot and he originally created “Luminiferous Aether” and the rest of the album by responding to each other’s sounds without preconceptions, starting from a blank slate. While in the Berlin studio he reacted aurally to Agata’s piano, in Brian Raaby’s studio, he responded visually to their music, discovering freshness and surprise in a composition he had been developing, editing, and mixing over a years-long process that culminated shortly before the shoot. Raaby’s taste, candor, and creativity were key in creating an atmosphere and setup that allowed Córdoba to perform in this way and captured that moment on video.”