Daniel Corral

Very soon, I’ll share information about some upcoming shows this winter/spring 🙂

Ring in the beginning of the end of 2018 with Spinal Frog on December 1 at MorYork.
I’ve been trying out new songs with Jo Wallfisch, Trevor Anderies, and Federico Llach, and we’re excited to share some of them! We’ll be joined by A Horse A Spoon A Bucket and a duo by Logan Hone and John Kirby.
MorYork, 4959 York Blvd, LA, CA 90042
7pm, December 1, 2018,
$5 suggested donation, music @ 7:30

Check it out the new album on Bandcamp or get a physical CD on CD Baby! You can also stream it on Spotify, Apple Music, or any other major streaming service.

Polytope’s 15 tracks recall classic experimental electronic albums such as Terry Riley’s Shri Camel, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, Laurie Spiegel’s The Expanding Universe, or Eliane Radigue’s Trilogie de la Mort. Sequenza 21 called Polytope “an extraordinary piece of musical and visual art… that is both accessible and compelling,” SF Gate hailed it as “a mesmerizing visual and musical spectacle,” and The Stranger described it as “gamelan from Pluto—or maybe ’70s Philip Glass as interpreted by Harry Partch on his Cloud-Chamber Bowls.”
Check out the preview track Square 2 from Polytope!

Here’s some of the press from the recent premiere and tour of Polytope 🙂

• Sequenza 21: “Polytope is an extraordinary piece of musical and visual art… that is both accessible and compelling.”
• The Stranger: “After five minutes of this silvery, undulant tintinnabulation, I was ready to evaporate into another more sparkly and stimulating dimension than the one in which we currently suffer. This piece sounds like gamelan from Pluto—or maybe ’70s Philip Glass as interpreted by Harry Partch on his Cloud-Chamber Bowls.”
• New Classic LA (Interview):  “Daniel Corral’s latest work, Polytope, premieres at Automata as part of this year’s MicroFest, who have named their season after it. We were lucky that Daniel had a minute to answer some questions about this piece…”
• 24700: “Composer, CalArts faculty and alumnus Daniel Corral (Music MFA 07) presents the live debut of his latest release Polytope to Automata in Los Angeles on Sunday (March 18). The concert is the featured performance of this year’s MicroFest 2018.”
• SF Gate: “A mesmerizing visual and musical spectacle”
• MetalJazz:  “Musicians who know the turf”
• The Rest is Noise:  Miscellany

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I hope you can join me on March 18 for the world premiere of Polytope, a microtonal multimedia piece I’ve been working on for the last year. Polytope is part of MicroFest 2018, and in fact the 2018 festival season was named after it!
I started work on Polytope in January 2017 at the Banff Centre, and am thrilled to finally premiere it. Polytope builds on my solo electronic performances Diamond Pulses and Comma, but expanded to a quartet of musicians. I’ll be joined in premiering and touring Polytope by Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, and Andrew Lessman.
Polytope world premiere
Sun, 3/18/18, 8pm
Automata
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
$15 / $12 Automata members
Polytope will also play in Seattle and San Francisco:

• Wayward Music Series, Good Shepherd Chapel in Seattle, March 23, 8pm
• Center for New Music in San Francisco, March 25, 7:30pm