Samuel Vriezen’s 94 Fantasias lets 31 voices become an Amsterdam polyphony machine

Samuel Vriezen’s 94 Fantasias for 31 Voices arrives on 2 July as the sort of project whose title already feels like an instruction manual for a strange machine. The Amsterdam composer’s Bandcamp tags include classical experimental, algorithmic, avant garde, drone, noise and polyphony, which places the work firmly in the zone where composition becomes system and system becomes listening experience. Individual pieces such as Fantasia for 31 voices, no 74 – Sarabandes and no 99 – Barcarolles suggest a project with both historical forms and computational curiosity in its bones. The beauty of a growing album like this is that it does not behave like a finished monument. It feels more like a living structure, one that keeps adding rooms, voices and harmonic puzzles. Vriezen’s work sounds designed for listeners willing to hear pattern as drama and polyphony as architecture.

Source: https://samuelvriezen.bandcamp.com/track/fantasia-for-31-voices-no-74-sarabandes-to-dante-boon