Maria W. Horn
The compositions of Maria W Horn (1989) implement synthetic sound, electroacoustic and acoustic instruments and audiovisual components, often devicing generative and algorithmic processes to control timbre, tuning and texture. She employs a varied instrumentation ranging from analog synthesizers to choir, string instruments, pipe organ and various chamber music formats.
An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids / All Solids Melt Into Aether
Split LP in the Portraits GRM series: Jules Négrier’s two-movement electronic piece An Iris Crackled Like Eyelids meets Maria W Horn’s All Solids Melt Into Aether, organ chords pushed to their limits against computer-generated tones.
Melting Pillars of Snow
Black Vinyl edition. XKatedral is proud to present a new full-length album by label co-founder Maria W Horn. Melting Pillars of Snow is a collection of new compositions from the renowned Swedish composer written for Contrabass Recorder, Shō, Percussi…
XKatedral Anthology Series III
XKatedral Anthology Series III is the third installment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral music. The pieces presented here focus on the use of …
XKatedral Anthology Series II
Tip Tip Tip! ** 2026 Repress ** XKatedral Anthology II is the second instalment in a series of archival releases dedicated to presenting music by composers affiliated with XKatedral working within the realm of slowly evolving harmonic and timbral mu…
Panoptikon
Panoptikon is a suite of vocal & electronic music composed by Maria W Horn for an installation in the disbanded Vita Duvan panopticon prison (The White Dove Prison) in Luleå, Sweden. From the opening of Vita Duvan in 1856 until its closure in 1979, p…
Celestial Shores
The music heard on this album was originally the result of a commission to score the second half of the film Nico/Nico Crying made by Andy Warhol in 1966. The commission was made by Art Cinema OFFoff in collaboration with B.A.A.D.M for a screening of…
Funeral Folk
Funeral Folk is a musical collaboration between Sara Parkman and Maria W Horn. Together they explore the rituals of grief and the musical phenomenology of death through their respective crafts and influences. Sara Parkman is a violinist, singer and c…
Fältinspelningar från Terres de l’Ebre
** Green vinyl edition of 300 copies. Originally released as a tape edition of 100 in 2017 **Newly reworked by Maria Horn & Mats Erlandsson and remastered by Daniel Karlsson. XKatedral returns with this blistering terraform of sprawling ambient and e…
Epistasis
Following the success of her 2018 solo debut album Kontrapoetik (PRTLS 017LP), the Swedish composer Maria W Horn returns with Epistasis, her most ambitious record to date. The title track, "Konvektion" and the two parts of "Interlocked Cycles" see th…