Stephen O’Malley is an American, Paris-based prolific guitarist, producer, composer, visual artist, and the founder of the labels Ideologic Organ and Southern Lord, who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone and experimental music groups for over two decades, with his doom metal-drone SUNN O))) and the noise, electronic, and black metal KTL. O’Malley has a great interest in Hindustani classical vocal music – dhrupad, long wire instrumentation, phenomenological spectralism, and sound temporality
Spheres Collapser is O’Malley’s composition for pipe organ, and it was performed by O’Malley with American, Stockholm-based minimalist composer Kali Malone (who recorded before with O’Malley, Does Spring Hides Its Joy, Ideologic Organ, 2023, and runs the XKatedral label), and Danish,
