Notes from the Kelp by Alex Shapiro (ASCAP)
Published by Activist Music LLC (ASCAP). All right reserved.
Performed by Alan Baer, Bradley Haag, Brice Martin, Carolyn Beck, Charles Boito, Connie Kupka, Dan Morris, David Speltz, David Walther, Frank Basile, Kathleen McIntosh, Leslie Lashinsky, Los Angeles Flute Quartet, Miwako Watanabe, Peggy Benkeser, Robin Lorentz, Susanne Kessel, Teresa McCollough, Tom Burritt, Victoria Miskolczy

Alex Shapiro has become one of the Pacific coast's most familiar composers of chamber music. Her name is synonymous with passionate music and a deep connection to the sea which surrounds her. Notes From the Kelp is a collection of eight of Alex's representative works.

Learn more at: https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASNotesfromtheKelpCD.html

Notes from the Kelp

Notes from the Kelp by Alex Shapiro (ASCAP)
Published by Activist Music LLC (ASCAP). All right reserved.
Performed by Robin Lorentz, violin; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord; Dan Morris, percussion

"This bit of whimsy was written with the intent of giving Robin and Kathy something that would be unexpected at the close of their otherwise respectable concerts. Quite ironically, the first few lighthearted measures were written on September 10th, 2001.

I thought of the people of all nationalities who perished that sunny morning. But New Yorkers are resilient, and composing this internationally-tinged piece may have been my way of declaring that to best honor those who have lost their lives, the rest of us should live ours to the fullest extent, for whatever time we're given. Just as these musical styles slip suddenly from one to another, life can slip from one reality to the next. As Ram Dass said, be here now."

Alex Shapiro has become one of the Pacific coast's most familiar composers of chamber music. Her name is synonymous with passionate music and a deep connection to the sea which surrounds her. Notes From the Kelp is a collection of eight of Alex's representative works.

Learn more at: https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASNotesfromtheKelpCD.html

Slipping

Slipping - Shapiro

Notes from the Kelp by Alex Shapiro (ASCAP)
Published by Activist Music LLC (ASCAP). All right reserved.
Performed by Miwako Watanabe and Connie Kupka, violins; Victoria Miskolczy and David Walther, violas and David Speltz, cello.


"Current Events ponders the ocean's tides as well as waves of a more internal, emotional nature. Living very near the water, communing with tide pools has been a constant in my life: if I weren't a musician I might well have become a marine biologist. As our above-sea level world continues on its restless and sometimes frightening path, I walk to the ocean for truth and a mirror. Staring into the water I seek out life forms that encounter their own dramas, good and bad, with each wave.

Like the ocean's currents, change in life is constant. It's how we adapt to the flow that makes all the difference."

Alex Shapiro has become one of the Pacific coast's most familiar composers of chamber music. Her name is synonymous with passionate music and a deep connection to the sea which surrounds her. Notes From the Kelp is a collection of eight of Alex's representative works.

Learn more at: https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASNotesfromtheKelpCD.html

Current Events: Rip - Shapiro

Current Events: Ebb - Shapiro

Notes from the Kelp by Alex Shapiro (ASCAP)
Published by Activist Music LLC (ASCAP). All right reserved.
Performed by Miwako Watanabe and Connie Kupka, violins; Victoria Miskolczy and David Walther, violas and David Speltz, cello.

"Current Events ponders the ocean's tides as well as waves of a more internal, emotional nature. Living very near the water, communing with tide pools has been a constant in my life: if I weren't a musician I might well have become a marine biologist. As our above-sea level world continues on its restless and sometimes frightening path, I walk to the ocean for truth and a mirror. Staring into the water I seek out life forms that encounter their own dramas, good and bad, with each wave.

Like the ocean's currents, change in life is constant. It's how we adapt to the flow that makes all the difference."

Alex Shapiro has become one of the Pacific coast's most familiar composers of chamber music. Her name is synonymous with passionate music and a deep connection to the sea which surrounds her. Notes From the Kelp is a collection of eight of Alex's representative works.

Learn more at: https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASNotesfromtheKelpCD.html

Surge

Current Events: Surge - Shapiro

Notes from the Kelp by Alex Shapiro (ASCAP)
Published by Activist Music LLC (ASCAP). All right reserved.
Performed by Los Angeles Flute Quartet

"Bioplasm is the stuff of life, the germinal matter that's essential for living beings to generate. This is a squishy piece: rather than exploit the individual voice of each flute, I wanted to create an organism that oozes across the sonic floor as one tethered entity, sometimes slowly, sometimes at a quick pace, but always as one, like a Slinky toy. The blend of homogenous sound with four flutes is a throbbing pulse of life; add to this four human voices, and it's a choir of plasma, looking for life to begin."

Alex Shapiro has become one of the Pacific coast's most familiar composers of chamber music. Her name is synonymous with passionate music and a deep connection to the sea which surrounds her. Notes From the Kelp is a collection of eight of Alex's representative works.

Learn more at: https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASNotesfromtheKelpCD.html

Bioplasm

Bioplasm - Shapiro

Featuring his first cello concerto two beautiful, elegiac works for solo oboe and strings and solo violin and strings and the powerful Cascade-Concerto for Orchestra, Knehans—Concertos is a disc for anyone who enjoys beautiful, energetic orchestral music. 

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Drift

I named this piece Bioplasm because "Oozing Up From the Primordial Sludge" seemed a bit long for a title. Bioplasm is the stuff of life, the germinal matter that's essential for living beings to generate. This is a squishy piece: rather than exploit the individual voice of each flute, I wanted to create an organism that oozes across the sonic floor as one tethered entity, sometimes slowly, sometimes at a quick pace, but always as one, like a Slinky toy. The blend of homogenous sound with four flutes is a throbbing pulse of life; add to this four human voices, and it's a choir of plasma, looking for life to begin.

Note by Alex Shapiro

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Stranded Silver
Mary Gheen, Willie Santiago, Benjamin Sledge, and Jackie Traish, flutes

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Alex Shapiro - Bioplasm

Sounds recorded during the Perseid meteor shower from 0300 to 0500 on August 12, 2016.

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Alex Shapiro - Desert Notes (2001) for oboe, bassoon and piano

Performed LIVE at Palacio de Congresos, Granada, Spain at the 2019 International Double Reed Society conference.

Dr. Casey Knowlton, oboe
Dr. Jacob Goforth, bassoon
Dr. Galen Dean Peiskee, Jr., piano

Alex Shapiro - Desert Notes (2001)

Of the many, many people named Alex Shapiro out there, I am most likely the only one who composes chamber and electroacoustic wind band music AND who used to breed pythons. Others may claim to have done one, but not both.

Music. Nature. Laughing. Eating well. Friendships. And lots of other fun stuff, too. In no particular order. Unlike the music I compose, the notes of which are definitely in a particular order. If you want to know more about my life as a composer, please visit http://www.alexshapiro.org . And if you want to know where all these notes really come from, please click: http://www.notesfromthekelp.com . Thanks!


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