Name: majestic synthpop by Andrea Mazzariello in Majestic Synthpop/The Dark Land
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Description: I wrote this after making it across the country on a road trip. I was in a good mood. For days.

Majestic Synthpop/The Dark Land

I wrote this after making it across the country on a road trip. I was in a good mood. For days. 

majestic synthpop

So named after the weird goblin sound I was using. Thanks, Logic. 

the dark land

searchin'

Call to the Horizon

Never let me near the amen break again (old)

As a vocalist, I have long been obsessed with the nuanced resonance of the human voice, and in particular the timbral variation and inflection inherent to many folk vocal traditions. These highly expressive micro-variations deliver intense pangs of emotion that can be sung in the subtlest of ways. They are distilled, fleeting moments of suffering and joy that fall between the cracks of melody and harmony. This piece is about the music that exists between the notes.

One wish, your honey lips (2016) // Emissary Quartet

Ekstasis for percussion and electronics, Joby Burgess - vibraphone and gongs.

Ekstasis - Excerpt

For eight musicians, bowing crotales, and bending and bowing sheet metal prepared with transducers, 2017.

Commissioned by the 2017 Chosen Vale International Percussion Seminar, and performed by Kays Ishaq, Paul Kasperitis, Carla Lackey, Chris Leich, Darren Long, Danielle Morales, Kazuomi Motoike, and Joe Pazanowski. Premiered at Chosen Vale on July 7, 2017.

Tom Scribner was, over his life, a logger in the Pacific Northwest, a union organizer for the IWW, a writer and newspaper editor, and a busking musical saw player. There is a statue of him in Santa Cruz, CA.

http://www.scribnerfamilies.org/Documents/Family%20Reports/Tom%20Biography.pdf

https://www.iww.org/history/library/Scribner/lumberjack

Scribner's Song

Movements from Abbie Betinis's 'Nattsanger'

Eclat - Bethlehem Music Series

Lyktestolpen & Nattmusikk

Light Years

Andrea Mazzariello (he/him) is a composer, performer, writer, and teacher. His musical practices include writing songs, making electronic music, and working in notated traditions. His work explores spoken and sung treatments of his own original text, plays with computers and other kinds of electronics, and engages the physiology of performance in novel ways. He writes about listening, musical media, and pedagogy, and teaches and mentors music-makers working in a wide variety of genres and approaches. His music has been performed widely in North America and Europe, and appears on releases by New Amsterdam Records, SEAMUS, Proper Canary, and his own One More Revolution records. The Operating System published his first book, One More Revolution: A Love Song, on Vinyl, in 2018. He teaches composition and music technology at Carleton College, directs the composition program at the Sō Percussion Summer Institute, and mentors and collaborates with young beatmakers, producers, and songwriters at The Key, a youth services organization in downtown Northfield, MN.

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