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"Touch" is a piece in which form, texture, pitch, rhythm and dynamics are are a translation of an EEG graph. Electroencephalogram is a medical device, created to analyze changes in the bioelectrics of the brain. The piece is an example of a direct sonification of extra-musical source of data.

"Touch" is the first movement of a 2-part solo cello sonata, based on the sonication of medical materials. The piece was written as part of an artistic research project at Codarts, Rotterdam.

Recorded by Peter Arts on 08.04.2022 in Westvest Kerk, Rotterdam
Cello - Jan Zygmunt

Touch

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Recorded as part of the soundtrack for the upcoming game to be released.

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The New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra coached by Donald Palma performs Elgar's Serenade for Strings. Recorded live at NEC's Jordan Hall March 15, 2011.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu/concerts

Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor  Op  20 - Larghetto

"Amplitude" is a aleatoric piece based on wide and free structures. All the graphics that are built into the music, are an actual footage of medical devices monitoring human vital functions. 
These waves come from instruments such as electrocardiograph, electroencephalograph, electromyograph. The parts cut for the piece are consisting of:
schizoprenic patients brain waves while blinking, heart beating during sleep, torsade du point (polymorphic ventricular tachycardia), flow cytometry record.

The overall concept of the piece is to close and transform the medical data recordings into the musical narration. The open form of „Amplitude” enables instrumentalists to realize their own understanding of the piece, with particular emphasis on showing their personal musical temperament. It’s about closing the vitality, character and emotion in a suggested amplitude.


Recording made by:
Alto Sax. - Mikołaj Sarad
Cello - Jan Zygmunt
Percussion - Emilian Rosiak

Sound engineer - Daria Byszko

Amplitude

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Toccata per cembalo solo was performed on February 14, 2020 in the Henryk Melcer Chamber Hall at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. To make it more interesting the instrument was tuned on 415 Hz.

Performed by Barbara Brzezińska

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Tchaikovsky - Valse sentimentale 
First raw try for my plan of recording all the Tchaikovsky pieces for cello
by playing all the parts myself.

Tchaikovsky - Valse sentimentale

Hugh Wolff conducts the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Haydn's Symphony no 82 in C major, H 1 no 82 "The Bear". Recorded live in Jordan Hall March 11, 2013.

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Commissioned for the 30th anniversary of the Midsummer’s Music Festival, my first Piano Trio presents my own unique take on the genre, while honoring the piano trio repertoire so powerfully championed by Midsummer’s Music. It was very important to me while composing this piece to consider the nature of the festival: their ardent dedication to unsung masterworks alongside canonical monoliths left an indelible impression on my imagination as this composition came into being. That being said, my goal while writing this piece was, as always, to compose something new that communicates to listeners and performers, leading each of them on their own, personal journey—a piece of music which has no agenda except to be itself, something with which everybody can engage and in which everyone can find meaning, a work that is treated as a living thing. After all, isn’t that what art is? Alive? As a professor once told me, “art is a verb.” I hope that through my own use of time-honored crafts like melody, dissonance, harmony, and counterpoint, this Piano Trio will inspire and affect all those involved in a surprising, energetic, organic, and uplifting way.

Recording: August 17, 2020, Midsummer’s Music Festival, Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI - David Perry (violin), Greg Sauer (cello), Jeannie Yu (piano)

TOCCATA per cembalo solo (2018)

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