A special mixtape courtesy of Listen To This!:
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Tracklisting / Liner Notes:
http://www.self-titledmag.com/2015/10/09/listen-to-this-present-omg-japan-a-mixtape-of-experimental-japanese-music/

OMG JAPAN: Rare & Experimental Japanese Pop (1980 - 1989)

I developed Who's Exploiting Who collaboratively with the Thin Edge New Music Collective in January and February 2016. There is no written score for the piece, and as a result it relies entirely on the ensemble's collective memory to be realized.

Before each TENMC rehearsal, I corresponded individually with every member of the ensemble via a temporary audio file that I posted privately on soundcloud. These correspondences contained recordings of my voice describing musical parameters, metaphorical text and logistical instructions. During rehearsals, the ensemble patched together a collective understanding of the piece based on their individual memories of the original correspondences. I was not present for rehearsals, thus allowing the resulting constellations of their new insights to supersede my original artistic impulses. 

Who's Exploiting Who is based on one of my favourite songs released in 2015. I fed various musical fragments of the original song through my somewhat scattered memory as well as the (less scattered) memory of the TENMC. The result is (hopefully!) a kaleidoscopic and hallucinogenic exploration of complete musical obsession.

Who's Exploiting Who

soprano + backing
(2016/7)

words by Caitlin Doherty

sung by Juliet Fraser
live recording (premiere)
9 Feb, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
recorded by Sam Gillies

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what light fear blanches 
the alarm
the photographic
hours delay waking until 
sleep again

concede it to a grey- 
not-love, the morning calls 
with no promise 
to refresh

& weighting is beyond 
this hour, each word 
a serious intent, an 
object pain

there are only so many 
Messages of Love
I can send to you
while we are both awake 
the ocean becomes dark 
we trade symbols of hearts 
freely and in colour

— Caitlin Doherty

While we are both

morandi

Composed in 2017
Performed at De Duif, Amsterdam on 7 April 2017 by the Ives Ensemble:
Rik Andriessen (bass flute), Josje ter Haar and Emma Breedveld (violins), Ruben Sanderse (viola) and Job ter Haar (cello)

Omloop Het Ives

composed by Martin Arnold (2013/2017)
performed by:
Claire Butterfield: voice and guitar
Clemens Merkel: violin and whistling
Alissa Cheung: violin and whistling
Stéphanie Bozzini: viola and whistling
Isabelle Bozzini: cello and whistling
Martin Arnold: melodica and whistling
John Abram: banjo
Alex Jang: mandolin and whistling
Jeff Morton: banjo and whistling
Tina Pearson: guitar and whistling
David Riedstra: guitar and whistling
Philip Thomas: plucked piano

Coo - Coo Bird (Victoria)

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TRACKLISTING:
1. Tabo’s Project - Feel
2. Imitation - Narcisa
3. Jimmy Murakawa - Down? Down, Down! / Stay Outta My World
4. Zabadak - 蝶
5. Akiko Yano - Ashkenazy Who?
6. Junko Ohashi - I Love You So
7. Junko Yagami - Zyohanasubargu
8. Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Talkin’ (Honey It’s You)
9. Yukihiro Takahashi - Konchu-Ki
10. Sandii & The Sunsetz - The Serious Game
11. Pizzicato V - The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
12. Pecqre - Kylyn
13. Joe Hisaishi - The Winter Requiem
14. dip in the pool - Rabo Del Sol
15. Masami Tsuchiya - Never Mind
16. Mami Koyama - Love Song
17. Toshifumi Hinata - サラズ・クライム
18. Ayuo Takahashi ft. Koharu Kisagari - 流れる
19. Hiroko Yakushimaru - 透明なチューリップ (Transparent Tulip)

Liner Notes

OMG JAPAN 2: Japanese Pop (1980-1989)

Recorded at Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts in Parry Sound on August 7th, 2019 by Jason Doell (Continuum Contemporary Music), on behalf of Continuum Contemporary Music. 

Performed by Sophie Lanthier, Tiago Delgado, Michael Murphy, Darren Creech, Aysel Taghi-Zada, and Ben Louwersheimer.

Mire

Beneath a Landscape is an interstitial sound-work, occupying a space somewhere between a piece written for performance and an installation/acoustic environment. More specifically it a site-specific work written for the TTC Vaughan Station as part of the 2019 INTERSECTION music festival
http://www.contactcontemporarymusic.org/intersection/. 

In a similar inbetween-ish-ness, this recording sits somewhere between performance document and field recording (replete with wonderful operator interventions!). 

Tuned to the station and referencing John Cage's In a Landscape, Beneath a Landscape folds its namesake's lyrical/ contemplative character into its originator's later conceptual frameworks concerning chance, and environmental sounds. 

recorded by Joe Strutt

Performed by:
Contact Contemporary Music with

Aysel Taghi-Zada
Cory Harper-Latkovich
D.Alex Meeks
Germaine Liu
Olivia Shortt
Sebastian Shinwell
Wesley Shen
Xuan Ye

Mire

Andrew Hulse

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