Calum Builder – Although Changed, I Arise the Same

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Calum Builder is an Australian, Copenhagen-based experimental composer, originally trained as an alto sax player,  working with cyclic structures, deconstruction, and unstable acoustic systems, realised in works for pipe organs, large-scale and chamber ensembles, choirs and improviser-led groups.

Builder’s practice has gradually expanded into experimental work with pipe organs. After years of approaching the instrument as a mechanical synthesiser, he self-built the (Re)Constructed Pipe Organ from decommissioned and salvaged church pipes found across Northern Denmark, reassembled as a portable, naked system:  motor, bellows, windchest, and tubing. Although Changed, I Arise the Same is Bulder’s second album for the (Re)Constructed Pipe Organ, following the solo album, Poor_in_Spirit (OOH-Sounds, 2025). The album’s title is a translation