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  Over the past few years Nilsson has become fascinated by the creative process across idioms. She examined these processes with visual artists, playwrights, actors, mathematicians, biologists and above all poets. She both experienced the work as a viewer, and spoke to creators. In this release Nilsson explores these processes in collaboration with pianist Santiago Leibson, bassist Marty Kenney, drummer Rodrigo Recabarren, Vibraphonist Karl Berger, poet Aviva Jaye and visual artist Daniela Carneiro Lino.
  
  “Cycles Of Formation” began with a recording session where Nilsson’s new project “Band Of Pulses” (Santiago Leibson, Marty Kenney and Rodrigo Recabarren) went to Woodstock, New York in March of 2022 to record at Applehead Studios on an invitation from Nilsson’s teacher Karl Berger. From the first note it was clear that there was something special in this session. No words were spoken; no plans made. They just dove in and unfolded these sounds together, engaging fully in the process of discovery. These recordings are exactly what was captured by Chris Bittner that day, mixed and mastered but otherwise unedited.
  
  This series of 8 square cards holds artwork by Daniela Carneiro Lino, poetry by Aviva Jaye and liner notes by Elsa Nilsson. It is a collaborative exploration of creative process in the ways it manifests for the artists involved.
  
  Aviva Jaye is a performing artist and composer primarily wielding voice, piano, harp, guitar and ukulele. She often combines acoustic and electronic elements to unlock a portal for listeners to venture, exploring the dimensions of empathy, self-awareness, social justice and futurism. Her interdisciplinary work includes theater, dance, paper arts & poetry. Nilsson and Jaye had been talking about doing something together for years as Jaye’s process as a poet is strikingly similar to Nilsson’s as a composer, mainly sitting with the material until the story shows itself clearly. Nilsson sent Jaye the tracks along with her notes, and Jaye returned a collection of poems that reflected the journey of the pieces and the movements between them.
  
  Nilsson met Daniela Lino at a club she was playing at in July of 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. Lino had an exhibit of her art up in the same venue: Elipse (2022), an installation of 15 rust prints on fabric, arranged in an elliptical cycle. Betina Juglair writes about Lino’s work: Daniela provides matter - iron, water, oxigen, time and space to breathe - as food for an "alchemical dance" where "the metal, with all its strength and lightness, unfolds and expands into its own geography of colors, textures and smells. The movement is spontaneous and free: the rust sometimes draws black lines, at other times it synthesizes into dots, or spreads into bright orange specks, and in rare moments it gives us a glimpse of an intimate glow in deep blue.
  In these prints there is room for everything, or at least everything that matters: to contemplate the cycle of things, to create bonds with matter, to ask questions to the rust. In “Elipse”, the pieces compose a sequence, opposing each other, in proximity and movement, like ancient planets walking through an ever-expanding firmament." Nilsson was drawn to the work and spent an hour in the Elipse, improvising with the fabric. Musically it moved like cycles of formation, and Lino’s work was the obvious choice for artwork to accompany this release. The images you see are details from “Elipse”.
  
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