Night Gestalt

Night Gestalt (Olof Cornéer) strives to create simple, transparent music. Music that is as straightforward to experience as light—and as beautiful. Night Gestalt began as an electronic love affair with arpeggios, and since the start, almost all the music has been constructed along this simple idea: one note at a time. “I love how arpeggios are so simple and yet consist of everything needed to make interesting music: rhythm, melody, harmony, and sound. And I love how you can hear every note. Nothing is hidden. The music isn't trying to be anything it’s not, or trying to show off. It just exists, just like light,” says Olof Cornéer. Since the first album in 2015, Night Gestalt has been pressing the B-sides from singles onto unique vinyl records and burying them in different parts of the world. These songs can’t be listened to anywhere else and will never be released (they are even deleted from Olof’s hard drive). They are buried in the ground, with only the rough coordinates posted. “I love how a future civilization—even after all our knowledge is lost—could find these and play them. And then they would hear music that no one has ever listened to before,” says Olof Cornéer. Under his own name, Olof Cornéer releases classical music—often for small ensembles—using the same ideas. His piece Three Sisters has been selected for ISCM World New Music Days 2024 at The Faroe Islands, the world's most prestigious festival for contemporary classical music. Olof Cornéer also creates sound installations together with Martin Lübcke. In 2010, their piece Harvest—a huge gramophone ploughing and playing the earth—received an honorary mention at Ars Electronica in the Sound Art category. Olof Cornéer lives in Stockholm, Sweden.