Live performance from Hashtag Lab 27.10.2024 in Warsaw

Andrzej Karalow - Luminous Gardens (2024) for vocal-instrumental ensemble and fixed electronics

Luminous Gardens is an ambient space in which the listener freely chooses the path, voices and layers to listen to. The structure of the composition consists of consonances, harmonic structures that shape the narration and segments of individual parts-sound gardens. The musical material consists of vocal-instrumental motifs separated by sections of silence and processed field recordings interspersed with pads recorded with the original Roland Juno-6 synthesizer.
Light, sound "organisms", space, reverberation - these are the main features that make up the sound environment of Luminous Gardens.
The composition was written for Hashtag Ensemble.

Match Match Ensemble (SSAATTBB) 
Hashtag Ensemble
Łucja Chyrzyńska – flute
Bartłomiej Sutt – vibraphone
Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska – viola
Dominik Płociński – cello

Lilianna Krych – conductor

Wojciech Błażejczyk – sound engineer

Andrzej Karałow – Luminous Gardens (2024) for vocal-instrumental ensemble and fixed electronics

Ombra: pour violoncelle baroque (5-cordes) et orchestre à cordes
Interprété par L'Ensemble Arkea, sous la direction de Dina Gilbert
Avec la violoncelliste soliste Elinor Frey
5 avril 2018 à la Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur

photo: Nicole Aline Legault
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Ombra. for solo 5-string cello and string orchestra
Performed by Ensemble Arkea under the direction of Dina Gilbert
With solo cellist Elinor Frey
April 5 2018 at la Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur

Ombra (2018)

Since his first record dropped in 2010, UK producer Blawan has been gradually rewriting the techno rulebook while making hardware mayhem as one half of Karenn and dropping solo releases on labels like Hessle Audio, Clone, R&S and his own Ternesc imprint. However, despite all that activity, he's somehow never released a full-length album – until now. The highly anticipated 'Wet Will Always Dry' LP is slated to arrive on June 18, but ahead of that we debuted the ominous sounds of "Stell" on First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@ternesc
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Wet Will Always Dry

Blawan "Stell" [First Floor Premiere]

Interprété par le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, dirigé par Dina Gilbert au Bain Mathieu, le 8 juin 2018 
Enregistrement effectué en concert (par Kevin Gironnay)
Document d'archive

Mes plus grands remerciements à Normand Forget, à Alain Beauchesne, à Jérémy Chignec, à Lorraine Vaillancourt, à toute l'équipe du NEM, et aux interprètes:

Musiciens du NEM:
Geneviève Savoie, flûte
Julie Sirois-Leclerc, hautbois
Martin Carpentier, clarinette basse
*Charlotte Layec, clarinette basse
Michel Bettez, basson
Jocelyn Veilleux, cor
Lise Bouchard, trompette
Angelo Muñoz, trombone
Julien Grégoire, percussions
*Keiko Devaux, piano
Johanne Morin, violon
Lyne Allard, violon
François Vallières, alto
Julie Trudeau, violoncelle
Yannick Chênevert, contrebasse
(*musiciennes invitées)

Ebb (2018)

« Là où l'existence m'a semblé être un meuble dans l'espace. »

Musicien/Performer :
Renaud Boucher-Browning, contrebasse.

Création dans le cadre du Laboratoire de musique contemporaine à Montréal (LMCML)/ Premiered during the Montreal contemporary music lab.

https://www.labomontreal.com

Limpidités I

saxophone - Pablo Sánchez-Escariche Gasch
piano - Andrzej Karałow
recording, editing - Igor Szymański, Andrzej Puczyński 
mix and mastering -  Andrzej Puczyński

after all for saxophone and piano, Sánchez-Escariche Gasch, Karałow- Zaneta Rydzewska (2017)

Premiere performance for Pulsar Festival 2019 by the Novo Quartet with Louise Mcclelland Jacobsen, conducted by Vincent Hardaker.

Excerpt: 

Nightshadows deepen in this earthly kingdom,
  The turn of events changes world under heavens.

Therefore I cannot think why
   throughout the world
my mind should not grow dark.

Falling snowstorm binds the earth, 
the noise of winter
   familiar utterances,
      Fate is inexorable.

Set to 'The Wanderer' - one of many anonymous poems in the Exeter Book, written ca. 10th C.

Eardstapa

Impro p. 2

HAARP

clarinet, music, sound: Żaneta Rydzewska

e-t-s #2 | impro for clarinet and electronics

Andrzej Karałow, b. 1991 is a Polish pianist, composer and improviser based in Warsaw (Poland). He is currently an assistant professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Doctor of Musical Arts.
He is a laureate of many national and international piano competitions, e.g. Milosz Magin Competition in Paris, Konzerteum in Athens, or Frederic Chopin National Competition in Warsaw. He performed in prestigious concert halls in the country and abroad, also with accompaniment of renowned orchestras [Warsaw National Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia], under the baton of Ewa Strusińska or Jakub Chrenowicz. Equally successful as a composer, he is a prize winner of, among others, the 2nd Karol Szymanowski International Composition Competition in Katowice, or Opera Compostion Competition in Miskolc, Hungary, where he was praised for his professionalism, imagination and artistic sensibility. Although classical music is the main field of his activity, he is also open to experiments in electronic and alternative genre, combining techniques and inspirations from various fields of art into his own, unique musical language.