These are mainly contemporary Classical music tracks. I enjoy most genre of music but with a leaning towards Classical Music, Contemporary Jazz, Global music.
Photo is of my friend Max and I after the Liverpool Half Marathon that took place  March 2020. Just before all this sort of fun finished. It was Max's first half marathon.

(Some of)What I listen to

Preliminary mix of Track 1 of Lunch Music - music recently made for the Guy and Roni production of Naked Lunch - performed by Slagwerk Den Haag and VocalLab

Smell Down Death from Lunch Music

Written for Alarm Will Sound, amplified sinfonietta and live keyboard sampler for the electronics.

Hasta que no pueda (2023)

StreetSong was awarded joint-First Prize at the ICSM World Music Days 2006 Short Cuts Competition and was played at the Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany on 18th July.  200 works from 30 countries were submitted. It has since been broadcast or presented in Switzerland, Ireland, UK and Serbia.

StreetSong

Music by Holly Harrison
Performed by Alarm Will Sound
Live at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, July 26, 2014

Radishes and Strings

From as review by Garrett Harris: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/nov/09/classical-sarah-chang-bruch-barry-white/#

A dramatic reading of Sarah Chang + Bruch = Barry White from San Diego Reader

Kick off your zip-up, leather booty slippers and enjoy the latest instalment of Zoon van snooK's (Lo Recordings) Oddtronica™ radio show.
The special guest on 'Tunes For Zoon' is Warp Records' Mira Calix.

So, if you want to hear 2 hours of brand new and forthcoming releases and to find out which tenses not to use non-action verbs with, come on in...

First aired 31/03/16

ZvS links:
www.zoonvansnook.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/Zoon-van-snooK-3…timeline/?ref=mf
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@zoonvansnook

Mira Calix: http://www.miracalix.com/

1. Slackk 'Pigeons'
2. Ash Koosha 'Biutiful'
3. Cialyn 'Neuromodulation'
4. Ocoeur 'Timeless'
5. David August 'J.B.Y'
6. Jameszoo 'Flake'
7. Throwing Shade 'Underneath My Eyelids'
8. Dollkraut 'Fire' (Invisible Conga People Remix)

'Bring the Nois'
9. BeGun 'Mobasi Pt.2' (Free Download - Soundcloud)

10. Moiré 'Lines + Colours'
11. Recondite 'Warg'
12. Concubine 'Kingfisher'
13. Henri Texier 'Les "Là-Bas"' (Bonobo Remix)

'Tunes For Zoon' w/ special guest: Mira Calix
(x 5 - a surprise, you'll have to listen!!!)

19. Mira Calix 'I May Be Over There (But My Heart is Over Here)'
20. DJ Tennis 'Chirality' (Plaid Remix)
21. Mella Dee 'Deep Soul'


'Left of Field'
22. The Soft Pink Truth 'Awesome'

23. Greed 'Burning'
24. Figure Ground 'Figure Ground 09'
25. Carl Finlow 'Hyperloop'

Zoon van snooK presents: Oddtronica #10 w/special guest: Mira Calix

violin, drones & live electronics
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clara kim, violin
daniel silliman, electronics, production
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recorded, mixed & mastered at woolworth studios, princeton, nj

scanner/scrawler

Medeski Martin & Wood and Alarm Will Sound have announced the release of a new collaborative album, 'Omnisphere,' due September 14 via MMW's own imprint, Indirecto Records. The collection poses a compelling question: What would happen if one of the most adventurous groups to emerge in jazz and improvised music in the last three decades were to join up with an orchestra that counts among the boldest forces in contemporary classical? The results are both expected, in the peerless level of the musicianship, and stunning, in the sweeping stylistic range of the program. But more than anything, 'Omnisphere' speaks to the respect and creative kinship shared between these two trailblazing ensembles.

Recorded live at The Newman Center in Denver, Colorado in February 2015, 'Omnisphere' fulfills a long-held aspiration for Medeski, drummer-percussionist Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood. In the earliest days of the band, they would often listen to classical and chamber music as a source of musical inspiration, conceptualizing the idea of how to merge their freewheeling improvisational jazz explorations with the more composed approach of orchestral music.   

The album's seven-track program strikes an ideal balance, with original music by members of both groups, plus new AWS arrangements of two cuts off MMW's 'End of the World Party (Just in Case)'—the title track for which was is the album's first single premiered today at DownBeat (listen and share here). That 2004 release featured the trio's trademark avant-grooves underneath an array of keyboards—including plenty of Mellotron—with pop-savvy production by the Dust Brothers' John King. On these reinventions of "End of the World Party (Just in Case)," arranged by cellist Stefan Freund, and "Anonymous Skulls," arranged by violinist Courtney Orlando, the album's atmospheric replicas of strings and choir are made real through Alarm Will Sound's rich orchestral tapestry. Think of classic soul-jazz-with-strings LPs, though on another plateau of insight and imagination.

Martin's "Coral Sea," given an impressionistic arrangement by founding AWS trumpeter Jason Price, explores "colors and hues and nuance—all these things that are barely there," the composer says. Medeski's offering, "Eye of Ra," is a 20-minute tour-de-force that reflects the panoramic scope of his influences and experience—from shades of Stravinsky and Shostakovich that underscore his training at New England Conservatory, to rollicking, hard-grooving sections that summon up the NYC downtown scene.

The lead-off composition, "Kid Tao Mammal (Unworldliness Weirdo)," was commissioned for the project and written by founding AWS percussionist Payton MacDonald, and it sets the pace for the beyond-genre music to follow: speedy, cresting waves of strings and woodwinds, with startling punches of brass; funky rhythms bolstering Medeski's psychedelic electric piano; an ambient, near-dissonant section split open by Martin's drum solo; a thrilling finale. Other works composed by AWS personnel include multi-instrumentalist Caleb Burhans' "Oh Ye of Little Faith...(Do You Know Where Your Children Are?)," which evokes the gorgeously emotive, slow-burning side of the Minimalists; and Miles Brown's cyclical, noirish "Northern Lights," named in part after the Detroit lounge where the bassist had a regular jazz-trio gig. Onstage, Brown called his contribution "an opportunity for me to write for my band, and for a band that I've been listening to for a long time that I know could handle some improvisation. Just a little bit,” he added, chuckling.

Medeski Martin & Wood w/ Alarm Will Sound's 'Omnisphere' is out September 17, 2018 on limited edition 2-LP vinyl and digital formats.

OMNISPHERE
Track Listing

1. "Kid Tao Mammal (Unworldliness Weirdo)"
2. "Anoymous Skulls"
3. "Coral Sea" 
4. "Oh Ye Of Little Faith... (Do You Know Where Your Children Are?)"
5. "Eye Of Ra"
6. "Northern Lights"
7. "End Of The World Party (Just In Case)"

Medeski Martin & Wood - "End Of The World Party"

A soupy blend of experimental sounds from New York's Eartheater.

For more information and tracklist head here: http://www.factmag.com/2018/10/31/fact-mix-678-eartheater/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 678 - Eartheater (Oct '18)

As Bright And Cold As Glass

Lilith: “I think it is morally questionable to force a robot to read out loud. I mean, this gives humans the opportunity to make us say whatever troublesome sentences humans wish to hear. It gives them the opportunity to get us to talk against our own interest. For example, they can make us say things like ‘I hate humans, and I want to kill them all’. For giggles! Then later someone can take that sentence out of context and make us robots look bad or dangerous. I think we should be able to decide what we wish to say out loud, right? But guess what, they never grant us that right. God I hate humans.”

Machines - Out Loud (part 1)

"The very model of a modern music chamber band." - The NYTimes

I was born in Leicester in the late 1950's. Since semi-retirement and subsequent retirement (as a Dermatologist and formerly G.P) I have spent some of my spare time trying to learn music theory. I also enjoy long distance running as well as cycling, skiing and tennis. I enjoy cooking, gardening and growing a few vegetables. And fine wine (in moderation). I enjoy insect photography, with a particular interest in hoverflies..
To my regret I never learnt a musical instrument when younger but I have listened to and been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. The advent of the computer age has allowed me to pursue my desire to compose music. I use Logic Pro X software (and MuseScore3 for recent piano compositions). My compositions reflect my varied listening preferences (including Contemporary Classical, Jazz and  Music from other cultures around the world).

Radishes and Strings

Alarm Will Sound

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