Name: Ryoko Akama - 'a sense of coming back' extract by anothertimbre in New & hot: Classical
Duration: 8 min 5 s
Description: extract from Ryoko Akama's 'a sense of coming back' (2019) - one of a series of compositions based round research in the Krzysztof Kieslowski archive, and collectively called 'dial 45-21-95', to be released on Another Timbre in late 2019. Played by Apartment House: Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Simon Limbrick (vibraphone), Cristian Alvear (guitar) and Kerry Yong (piano)

New & hot: Classical

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The European fire-bellied toad is, in fact, a frog. (No fire, either.) However, this is more than compensated by its satisfyingly fun-to-say Latin name: Bombina bombina. They also produce antimicrobial peptides in their skin secretions – the even more fun-to-say ‘bombinins’. 

Native to eastern mainland Europe – recorded here in the protected land of Poland’s Barycz Valley Landscape Park – they use their internal vocal sacs to produce their “whoop” call: the mournful, slow-motion honk immortalized here. Imagine the sound that clowns might make when they cry and you won’t be far off.

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A collaboration with a music friend Encym (Roland). I have done a few collaborations with Roland now and it is always a pleasure to work with him.
This track contains a number of wonderful samples that Roland sent me. These have been manipulated with an app called SpaceCraft and with effects added from a Nembrini delay. Radio sounds have come from an app called WebSDR. 

The track was put together in AUM.

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Bandcamp link: https://mariamg.bandcamp.com/track/lotsva 

In March 2021, after two silent years of pandemic, I began collecting chants from around the world for my new acousmatic work. Exhausted by the long period of isolation and lack of contact, my artistic goal with this project was to bring together the voices of people from different countries, cultures and religions and unite them in my musical composition. In the promotional video I posted on my social media channels, I asked for audio recordings with a smartphone and received 26 songs that I used as source material for the piece. The audio files ranged from intimate solo recordings made in a bedroom, to polyphonic folk songs and chants professionally recorded in a studio, to songs accompanied by various instruments. As I listened to the recordings, I realized that my task as a composer was to find ways to connect the voices that were recorded in different acoustic environments, with different keys, tempos, and languages, and to create a sound world in which they could all coexist. Considering the time in which the recordings were made and the work was composed, I consider this piece a collective prayer, hence the title ლოცვა (Lotsva).
The first version of the piece premiered in Oslo on September 9 and subsequently toured other Norwegian cities and international festivals. In the meantime, I kept receiving new recordings, so I added a new contribution from a different country at almost every performance. The final version of the piece was presented at Kulturkirken Jakob as an 8-channel sound installation as part of VoxLAB VårFEST.

Contributors:
Annie Björkman, Sweden
Aine Eva Nakamura, Japan
Heidi Skjerve, Norway
Line Souza, Brazil
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Norway
Nigar Gahramanova, Azerbaijan
Åshild Hagen, Norway
Katy Pinke, Israel
Supriya Nagarajan, India
Zosha Warpeha, USA
Silva de Waard, Netherlands
Zoe Perret, France
Verena Merstallinger, Austria
Diego (surname anonymous), Argentina
Tamo Nasidze, Georgia
Falk Rößler, Germany
Ensemble IALONI, Nino Naneishvili, Georgia
Elvic Kongolo Birkebein, Congo
Małgorzata Olejniczak, Poland
David Zurabiani, Georgia
Sajidah Ahmed, Bangladesh
Andrea Silvia Giordano, Italy
Balint Laczko, Hungary
Marija Astromskaitė, Lithuania
Diana Serrao, Portugal
Christopher Manning, US 


Mastering: Balint Laczko
Cover: Midjourney AI
Video: Manuel Madsen (Norsk Komponistforeningen)
Commissioned by: Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe
Produced at Notam

LOTSVA / ლოცვა (excerpt)

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Goodbye Mister Ryūichi

I'm so sad for this great lost. Ryūichi Sakamoto was one of my favourite artists ever. One big source of inspiration when I use piano into my tracks. This is my little personale tribute.
Have a good trip, Mister Sakamoto!

Goodbye Mister Ryūichi

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extract from Ryoko Akama's 'a sense of coming back' (2019) - one of a series of compositions based round research in the Krzysztof Kieslowski archive, and collectively called 'dial 45-21-95', to be released on Another Timbre in late 2019. Played by Apartment House: Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Simon Limbrick (vibraphone), Cristian Alvear (guitar) and Kerry Yong (piano)

Ryoko Akama - 'a sense of coming back' extract

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Ryoko Akama - 'a sense of coming back' extract

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