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Collaboration with Evan Ziporyn - four electronic pieces providing soundscapes for his solo improvisation on Bass Clarinet. 
1. In My Mind and In My Car
2. Monks Not Thelonious
3. Blow / In the Storm
4. Underwater
Recorded live at Contemporary Arts International Quarry Festival in Acton, Massachusetts, September 7, 2013

In My Mind and In My Car

Rough mix of recording from Joy On Fire's second album, recorded at Mobtown Studios by Mat Leffler-Schulman

Composed by Anna Meadors, July 2014

Anna Meadors, saxophones
Shelly Purdy, vibraphone
John Paul Carillo, bass-guitar
Chris Olsen, drum set
www.joyonfire.com


World Systems

Timestretched to the length of the longest recording. Now available for download / vinyl: https://heyexit.bandcamp.com/album/every-recording-of-gymnopedie-1

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Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1

Performance day is finally here – and our excitement has amplified tenfold. Tonight beholds the world-first performance between the London Contemporary Orchestra and Actress – which we have had the honour to commission and curate alongside the LCO, and will also broadcast live from the Barbican tonight. Today, we are celebrating with a Debut from notable cellist, composer, producer and LCO soloist, Oliver Coates.

His Upstepping mini-album opus – forthcoming on Moshi Moshi's contemporary classical and experimental label, PRAH Recordings – illustrates Coates' deeply contrasting interests in music. Having formerly collaborated with Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi and now also Actress, and listing his direct influence from the likes of early Orbital and Photek, electronic reflections can easily be traced in the instrumental lyricism and classically versed composition patterns of each of Upstepping's eight tracks. On being asked about "Timelapse (Walrus)", Coates explained to us: "I was living in a hotel for a month because our flat got flooded, and listening to the chromatic steps of happy / sinister early nineties techno. Then I was taking cello harmonics and cutting off the fronts and making sample keyboards out of them. Everything that sounds like it could be a piano or keys starts from a piece of cello residue. The spoken audio is a small child saying ‘small child gets scared to death’. The body of the cello makes everything woody with the colours. I like techno made out of spruce."

Catch Oliver Coates' Upstepping masterpiece dropping on 13th May. Tune in to the live stream of Coates playing alongside the LCO and Actress tonight at the Barbican (20:30 GMT)

Oliver Coates "Timelapse (Walrus)" - Boiler Room Debuts

Premiered on March 2nd, 2017, this piece was written to address my personal thoughts on the many divides plaguing the world. I want the listener to really think about whether or not there has ever been a permanent resolution to the problems that are "resurfacing."

Resolution

I. tendrils
II. TEN DRILLS
III. Tender Ills

Amy Karnes - flute
Asher Carlson - Bb/bass clarinet
Wenyin Phoenix Deng - violin
Asher Sizemore - cello
Isaac Pyatt - percussion
Mengfei Xu - piano
Benjamin Campbell - conductor

Recorded, mixed. and mastered by Timothy Burgess

Three Homonyms

A Kind of Lung was written for a diverse ensemble expressing an experience we all share - breathing together. Commissioned by the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, where I was a fellow in 2017. 

Naomi Johnson- flute
Erlan Kasabolotov- Sabyzgy
Hunter Shelby Long- Paetzold Contrabass Recorder
Khushbakht Niyozov- Rubab
Sayat Yeshmatov- Dombra
Shannon Reilly Steigerwald- Violin
Nick Photinos- Cello
Nadezda Filippova- Piano
Caitlin Cawley- Percussion / Vibraphone
Kevin Zetina- Percussion / Drum Set

This live performance was from the premiere concert held at Mass MoCa.

A Kind Of Lung

Satirical Sadness

Andrew Savage - horn, Grace Gollmar - piano, Rob Elliot - Trumpet, Andrew Beach - double bass, Abby Simoneau - flute, Jessie Lewis - violin, Lowell Fuchs - glockenspiel, Timothy Burgess - keyboards

Chamber music

I'm working on an all covers ambient/instrumental record called Under Covers .. here's my version of Led Zepplin's Kashmir

Under the Covers

Kashmir / Bob Boilen from the album Under Covers

Anna Meadors is a composer and saxophonist whose music embraces patience, pulse, energy and joy. She has worked with Rhymes With Opera, Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, Echo Chamber, Conduit, the UNCG Percussion Ensemble and percussionist Evan Chapman. Her music has been performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention, the NOVO, MT6 and Artscape festivals in Baltimore, and recently, as the winner of ShoutHouse's 2016 Call for Scores, she had her piece Sand & Clay performed by them at Shapeshifter Lounge. Anna has been a fellow at Yale School of Music’s Norfolk New Music Workshop, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, Sō Percussion’s Summer Institute, and the LA Philharmonic’s National Composer Intensive. As a saxophonist, she is lead soloist in the jazz-rock trio Joy on Fire, which tours extensively throughout the east coast and recently released their second album on Procrastination Records, which has been called “a thrill of high voltage jazz 'n' roll” (All About Jazz). She graduated from Peabody Conservatory with a B.M. in saxophone performance, and from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with an M.M. in Composition; she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Composition at Princeton University.

World Systems

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