Pendulum – Opening Arcs: Arc no. 7

"Time folds into itself.

Multiple cycles coexist, asymmetrical yet connected. Movement breathes across layered durations, allowing contradiction to remain unresolved. The arc sustains density without weight, continuity without uniformity.

Listening is wide enough to hold all the all of it."

Opening Arcs is an eight-part release cycle unfolding across eight months. Across the eight offerings, the trio presents nearly three hours of music, released piece by piece. Each installment stands on its own while also forming part of a larger structure. As the months unfold, the music accumulates into an open body of work, with listeners entering the cycle at different moments and moving through it in their own time.

Pendulum is an international trio of singular voices whose mastery of improvisation turns gravity into groove. Benoît Delbecq (piano), Jonas Westergaard (bass), and Peter Bruun (drums) share a deep trust in both compositional structure and improvisational openness. Their music draws on metric relations, shifting balances, and elastic phrasing that allow time to bend and breathe. Each musician brings a distinct language to their expression, yet their interplay forms a shared axis, binding together the counterpoints of levity and gravity.

“...this work may not be about pendulums alone. It speaks of our way of being in the world. Of how we inhabit time, embrace its cycles, its returns, its slow transformations. It reminds us that movement is never a straight line, but a continuous oscillation between balance and imbalance, departure and return, tension and release. Opening Arcs is an invitation to listen differently: to slow down, to follow curves rather than clocks, and to perceive in the swing of a pendulum something of our own presence within time. And perhaps, beneath every vibration, to hear this silent question: What becomes of music when gravity itself begins to improvise?” – Emma Forestier, In&OutJazz Magazine

Recorded by Peter Hellesøe at Danish National Academy of Music, Sep 2024 and Sep 2025 

Mixed & mastered by Pendulum at Bondy Sonics, Dec 2025

Produced by Pendulum (Benoit Delbecq, Jonas Westergaard, Peter Bruun)
Artwork by Nathalie Siegfried

Handwriting by Benoit Delbecq

Cover Design by Hélène Bouju 
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Released on 9th November 2026 on ILK Music