Nokto 2 Jordi Forniés

• Jordi Forniés (b. 1971):
• 1 Forniés: It's Time To Dream 03:21
• 2 Forniés: Blue Air 03:16
• 3 Forniés: The Rain That Shines 02:46
• 4 Forniés: Beings 02:19
• 5 Forniés: Morning Drops 03:06
• 6 Forniés: Love Me More Than Ever 02:49
• Total Runtime 17:37

Info for Nokto 2

Nokto 2, his second EP that contains alternate versions of tracks from Hela Nokto, reworked for solo felt piano.

Jordi Forniés is a restless soul and a creative visionary. Born in small-town Spain, he has lived in several major cities (London, Paris, Barcelona, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore, where he is currently based), has studied a dizzying number of professional disciplines that span not just music and composition but painting, sculpture, chemistry, marketing and international business development, and is deeply passionate about exploring the intersections of the visual and the sonic.

Both art and music have been part of Forniés’s life for a long time. From the tender age of seven he was enrolled at the Conservatorio Profesional de Musica de Vila-seca near Barcelona, and taught himself how to paint and make canvases at home while he studied. After high school, Forniés threw himself into a number of different disciplines, gaining a PhD in chemistry and Master’s degrees in marketing and communication management, art and fine art—he is nothing if not extensively qualified.

Success in the visual arts came first, with Forniés drawing on his knowledge of chemistry to create works featuring original materials such as extruded plastic and ink injected with magnetic liquid. To date, he has been featured in over 50 solo exhibitions in 10 countries and has works in public collections in Spain and Ireland. A turning point in his career came in 2017 with his project “Sonance: Sound as Body, Sound as Architecture,” which considered the question of how sound might express visual art through form, and vice versa. Delving into these questions and the nature of sound has been an obsession ever since, and prompted Forniés to start composing music seriously for the first time.

This process culminated in his first full-length album, 2021’s Loudly Quiet, a reflection on a year of lockdown that became part of an eponymous virtual exhibition in which Fornies’ works were shown in a digital, animated museum created by 3D visualisation studio AVA CGI. This year, he followed up with Hela Nokto—his debut for Decca Records US—a collection of compelling nocturnes for piano and piano and cello ensembles. The title, which means “Bright Night” in Esperanto, is a nod to Forniés’s desire to cross borders and barriers. Most recently, he has released Nokto 1, a six-track EP that contains alternate versions of tracks from Hela Nokto, reworked for solo felt piano.

Jordi Forniés

Jordi Forniés
is a Spanish musician, composer, and visual artist based in Singapore. His works are characterised by a continuum between tender overarching refrains and defined sequences with increasing momentum. ​

Always contemplative and expansive, his compositions draw on neoclassical and ambient electronic music. Forniés composes for piano, strings, and small ensembles, working with studio recordings alongside electronic elements. ​

His first album, Loudly Quiet, will be released in 2021, and his forthcoming solo exhibition under the same name. The album is a hopeful and poignant collection of compositions for piano and strings, focusing on an individual story.

He has often collaborated with others, including Bouvaque, photographer and filmmaker Han Sungpil, for which Forniés' created a piano and string quartet score. He has composed for films, including Caroline Fink's epic documentary about the receding of the largest glacier in Switzerland, Aletsch: Of Ice and Men, 2016, and made music for documentaries and video installations of Gitta Gsell. He also worked on Yan Wang Preston's major project Mother River, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015. ​

Since childhood, a classically trained pianist educated at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Vila-seca in Spain, Forniés returned to music study in 2017, gaining an MFA in Music Composition and Orchestration at Chichester University in the UK. He is a member of the Composers Society of Singapore.

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