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From the LP "This Is My Hand." 
Available September 16, 2014.

Available on CD /Vinyl /Digital including limited edition translucent red 12" from Asthmatic Kitty Records.

Available in Canada from Paper Bag Records in frosted vinyl

Tour Dates: 
9/19/14 Detroit, Michigan
9/20/14 Toronto, Ontario
9/22/14 Cambridge, Massachusetts
9/23/14 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
9/25/14 New York , New York
9/27/14 Washington DC
9/28/14 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
9/30/14 Charlotte, North Carolina
10/1/14 Atlanta, Georgia
10/4/14 Austin, Texas
10/10/14 Austin, Texas
10/12/14 Dallas, Texas
10/17/14 Stockholm, Sweden
10/18/14 Gothenburg, Sweden
10/19/14 Copenhagen, Denmark
10/21/14 Hamburg, Germany
10/22/14 Berlin, Germany
10/24/14 Brussels, Belgium
10/25/14 Amsterdam, Netherlands
10/26/14 Paris, Ile-de-France
10/28/14 London, UK
10/29/14 Leeds, UK
10/30/14 Glasgow, UK
10/31/14 Dublin, Ireland
11/8/14 St Paul, Minnesota
11/12/14 Grand Rapids, Michigan
11/13/14 Chicago, Illinois
11/14/14 Madison, Wisconsin
11/15/14 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
11/16/14 Iowa City, Iowa
11/17/14 Minneapolis, Minnesota
11/19/14 St. Louis, Missouri
11/20/14 Indianapolis, Indiana
12/2/14 Denver, Colorado
12/3/14 Salt Lake City, Utah
12/5/14 Portland, Oregon
12/6/14 Seattle, Washington
12/7/14 Vancouver, British Columbia
12/10/14 San Francisco, California
12/12/14 Los Angeles, California
12/13/14 San Diego, California

My Brightest Diamond, "This Is My Hand"

Commissioned by the Silo Collective and performed by the Enigma Quartet, this is my recording of the world premiere performance of my String Quartet, "The First Movement" on November 17, 2015. 

String Quartet: The First Movement [Live recording]

Inspired by a dream I had about Trump being elected :)
You'll hear three dreams:
- Money Dream
- Mexico Dream
- China Dream
This is interspersed with fragments of the star spangled banner.
Enjoy

A Trump Nightmare

Premiered March 2017 for the Hamburg Hamburg Ballet Young Choreographers Series; Staatsoper Opera Stabile, written for solo piano with a pas de trois. 

The recording was remixed in London, January 2022, and released under Earth Press. 

Concert Review: “De Voir presents an extremely fine and differentiated triad of surprises. We have an intricate triangle, especially since it is not clear whether it is only dreamed… It is an inner action, and to what extent it is objectively real, the spectator must decide for himself… The cooperation of music and dance is very much to be praised. And composition is also a part of the choreography.”
-- The Ballett Journal

De-Voir

Taken from Sweet As Broken Dates, a stunning new compilation of lost Somali music, put together by @OstinatoRecords, is a 15 track story telling the story of Somali's sounds pre-civil war. The music of compilation is put together from tapes of Somali music that was buried into the ground to survive bombings.

Aamina Camaari's track is a perfect combination of beautiful vocal song, traditional instrumentalism and danceable bass line.

Read more here: bit.ly/stwsomali

Aamina Camaari - Rag Waa Nacab Iyo Nasteexo (STW Premiere)

Passing

Angler Fish

Last year, I received an email from an artist and protester in the year 2217 with a dire warning of the future. His email is below.

Hello Solomon,
My name is Tsoulumenn Phrancke and I come from the year 2217. This inter-temporal email has been sent at great cost. 
I have an important warning for you about the dire state of your future world and an imperative task for you that will instigate great change in our present. I apologise, some words may be redacted, CADP has strict censorship measures which [REDACTED] organisation has mostly bypassed. This email is cloaked as a collaborative musical email artwork.
Let me first explain the historical context of our present situation.
After the gay agenda-Alt left-Political correctness alliance militia seized
control of the world in 2053 in a devastating coup, society fell under the
control of the Curators for Artistic Development Party (CADP). Since the late 21st century the world has suffered under the brutal
oligarchical rule of CADP. With a fully automated world by the year 2057, the only means of meaningful existence was art, as decreed by the CADP; it was legislated that all people must make art and the presentation or acknowledgement of old art was prohibited. Gradually the great art of the past was purged from the world. 
All new art is systematically destroyed after one year of existence. The possession of contraband art is punishable by death. The CADP’s secret police force, the Militia for the Prevention of Generic, Hackneyed and Pastiche Art is ruthless in its pursuit of contraband material and artistic appropriation. 
The money system was abolished in 2088 and social status was determined by the quality of one’s art as assessed by the CADP curatorial committee. All forms of education except art were prohibited; maths, science and business were systematically written out of the syllabi. 
Our organisation has, at great risk, learnt the utilitarian skills of the past that have been designated to machines. Sport was banned in the 2062; there have been massacres at underground rugby matches where the Militia have brutally murdered players and spectators.
Art is a prison for us, it has no meaning, no use and the brutal taste of the CADP determine the paths of our lives.
Bearing our grievous present in mind, I have an important task for you. We imagine the great artworks of the past and pour over the few remnants of art books that remain hidden. One name that looms large over all others in music is Beethoven. We have [REDACTED] no surviving audio of his works. We see references to the fame of his fifth symphony but we cannot hear it.
We have selected you, Solomon Frank of 2017, as our inter-temporal messenger to bring us Beethoven’s fifth symphony as many times as possible. Find and compile as many recordings of the work (only the first movement, because that’s the famous one)and bury them in a disclosed location.
Let this past celebrity masterwork be a rallying call to overthrow our artistic dictators in 2217. We seek to return to a world of artistic indifference; where the arts are secondary to business, the economy and sport. We seek the sweet release of familiarity in the small amounts of conventional art we do consume. Let art seep to the fringes where it once was letting society function in aimless utilitarianism.
In your time, let this action be an artwork and my message, a dire warning of the inevitable future.
When I say as many recordings as possible, I mean every single performance available; the more versions we have, the more we can instigate artistic longevity, which our society no longer allows for.
Circulate my message to everyone you know and publish it on the internet.
Yours [REDACTED], Tsoulumenn Phrancke
The year 2217

For this interpretation of Phranke’s instructions I have compiled 228 recordings of Beethoven’s fifth symphony movement 1.
Full performers list: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8ly8d3xpyo2twr/Performers.pdf?dl=0

Beethoven Symphony No. [REDACTED]

David Bedford  Twelve Hours Of Sunset

Hi I'm Alice, I compose music, conduct, arrange, and make videos about creativity, French, and life in France.

String Quartet: The First Movement [Live recording]

Alice Chance