drive

for Oboe, Percussion, and Harp.
Oboe: Kyle Bruckmann,
Percussion: Mckenzie Langefeld,
Harp: Jennifer Ellis,
Conductor: Matilda Hoffman.

Premiere: May 8, 2021

"Sanguine" is a collection of three miniatures inspired by Hildegard von Bingen’s "O Rubor Sanguinis." Hildegard always fascinates me with not only her beautiful music but also the powerful images in her texts. In Sanguine, I stayed away from any explicit musical references to "O Rubor Sanguinis." Instead, I have tried to recreate a musical interpretation of the text which, of course, is very different from Hildegard’s version.
Movement one sets out a flowing and transparent texture depicted in the first two lines of the text. Movement two is about the darkness, chaos, and intensity of “winter with serpent’s blast.” In movement three, a delicate and fragile soundscape is restored to create an ethereal and other-worldly mood.

English translation of O Rubor Sanguinis:
"O bloody red
that flowed from up that height
divinity has touched: a bloom you are
that winter with the serpent’s blast
has never marred."

By Nathaniel M. Campbel

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Excerpt from live gig 2023 for Piano Day 2023

Cave (Live Excerpt 2023)

Bonjour à tous, 
Voici  ma nouvelle composition "Horizon" 🎹 
J’interprète au piano « Horizon» 
Bonne écoute

Lien YouTube : https://youtu.be/rgPglugwTaY

Image par Sarah Richter de Pixabay 


Hello everyone, 
Here is my new composition "Horizon" 🎹 
I interpret on the piano "Horizon"
Good listening

Horizon – Original emotional Piano

URBS is an intriguing combination of ambient textures and location-based field recordings. Originally released on Compact Disc by Hypnos Recording (U.S, 2012), Sanfilippo now revisits the work years later to subtly re-imagine it using his current creative approach in the same Onix II Studio, in the mountains near Barcelona. The extra textures don’t just add interest to the more crafted sounds on the record; these ghostly audio presences are the primary forms within these blurry ethereal soundscapes. Here Bruno Sanfilippo has softened his sound palette into such subtle tones that it is pleasingly difficult to define what he calls "the boundary between [musical] sound and noise. Gentle and evocative, subtly textural and transporting – maybe you hate or adore it, but it is hardly indifferent to you. ad21
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“Where is the defined boundary between sound and noise? Music usually doesn’t seem comfortable with ‘noise’ – due to the fragility of its aesthetic dimension, urban noise, in its context of common things, seems to be inexpressive. In this work, I incorporate the murmur of cities as one more element that dissolves with the faint sound of electronic sources, in this case, the manipulation of a Korg Radias synthesizer and a Lexicon processor.  The field recordings were obtained using an iPod Touch and recorded in churches, train stations, subway platforms, and the streets and bars of cities such as London, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, and New York. The cover photo was captured from inside a bus in Berlin.” Bruno Sanfilippo, 2023.

More information: https://linktr.ee/BrunoSanfilippo

The Man in the Gray Hat

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Chapter 1: The Saga Begins - Blue Night: A Twin Song
On a peaceful and enchanting blue night, a captivating tune called "Saga" played in the air. The melody was so mesmerizing that it transported listeners to a realm of tranquility and self-reflection beneath the glittering stars. What's even better, Saga's sister is just as beautiful.

Did you know that the unique "racketball snare sound" that appears halfway through Saga's music is created by Nigel Stanford? His distinctive sound has left a lasting impact on the music.


https://soundcloud.com/nigelstanford/2-06-the-edge?si=2f1557e3caa24dbeb9578ef44db7eaaf&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Bluenight - Part I - Saga: Final Remaster

Breeze (Vargkvint & Jakob Lindhagen Rework)

This is the second collaboration work by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, music composers who also are active as members of Anoice, RiLF, and Films, together with Kenji Azuma, an ambient music artist who plays a range of unusual instruments and the trio’s first EP.

It's been only three months since the previous collaboration single 'Ice Mermaid' with the basis of the song’s sounds created from materials which are related to ice and water. This time, they will release the four songs-included EP 'Memories of the Stone' featuring the sounds of a stone and limestone cave. Just like their previous work, this song is also based on an illustration painted by MATSURICA who also takes charge of the artwork for some of the releases from Anoice, Yuki Murata, and Films, and it is under the theme of the exploration into a cave. A wolf finds a cave in the forest and gingerly goes into it, and steps forward to the deep as if being invited by the sounds of water dropped on the puddle and bats singing. And then, he leaves his body to energetic dance of the ancient animals drawn on the wall...

Like the previous collaboration 'Ice Mermaid', each artist took charge of playing various instruments, but the most notable point in this EP 'Memories of the Stone' is that they mined Sanukitoids, a variety of high-Mg granitoid found in limited area of Japan and recorded its sound in the forest. You should be able to feel the memories of the long and epic history via the beautiful and clear sound of the stone which has existed since ancient times.

Step into an adventure with the main character wolf, Rem, while looking at the illustration.

Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, etc:
https://linkco.re/Z9Z4y5a6
BandCamp:
https://riccolabel.bandcamp.com/album/memories-of-the-stone

Memories of the Stone

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out of dream (Anoice / Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata, Kenji Azuma 'Memories of the Stone')

A quiet piece written for Piano Day 2024.

www.jeffchipman.com

The Deep Woods (Piano Day 2024)

I invite you to listen to my piano improvisation "Musical Moment № 12".
Find all my music here: https://linktr.ee/victorbirkan
Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/VictorBirkan

Musical Moment №12 - Improvised Piano Piece

Axel Weiss - Guitar
Vicente Bueso - Keyboards

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Aida Shirazi

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