Vertixe Sonora,
Santiago de Compostela 
9/10/22

carga llena, otros planes // for voice, ensemble & electronics

Violoncelle : Émilie Girard-Charest

https://soundcloud.com/emiliegirardcharest

Composition, enregistrement et mix : Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière

Parlando non troppo (2023)

Performance: United Instruments of Lucilin
Recording: Tritone Studios

"Draw" and "blow" are terms used to refer to breathing in and out in harmonica playing. Zoetrope VI is centered around the breathing patterns of the harmonica player (in this case the percussionist). The piece follows the speed with which they inhale and exhale, gradually speeding up as more and more blemishes are added to the texture by the other instruments in the ensemble. Eventually, a spinning sound image briefly forms from the musical mass. 

The "Zoetrope" pieces mix together disparate elements in teeming masses to see if they can be made to sound as one. How does their coming together and falling apart enrich or erase the individual motifs' identities? And which of their qualities do the individual motifs end up contributing to the whole? The Zoetrope series is inspired by the pre-cinematic animation device the "Zoetrope" and emulates its achievement of cohesion through speed, varied imitation and repetition.

Composed September/October for Luxembourg Composition Academy 2023

Zoetrope VI: Draw / Blow (2023)

Fabrik Quartet
Violin I - Federico Ceppetelli
Violin II - Adam Woodward
Viola - Jacobo Díaz Robledillo
Violoncello - Elena Cappelletti

2. Streichquartett (2004 - 2009) - Ulrich Kreppein

Stereo reference copy for 8-channel electroacoustic piece based on samples drawn from Jean-François Laporte's invented pneumatic/mechanical wind instruments.

Au-delà du souffle

Wraith II was written for Ensemble Black Pencil

Paetzold contrabass recorder - Jorge Isaac
contrabass pan-flute - Matthijs Koene 
viola - Esra Pehlivanli
accordion - Marko Kassl
percussion - Enric Monfort
and amplification

Recorded at the Orgelpark Amsterdam during the Prix Annelie de Man Festival 2023 where Wraith II was awarded the Ensemble Black Pencil Prize.

Wraith II

book of flowers

The title track from a forthcoming album... eventually... ;-) 

Nick Storring — cavaquinho, electric mandola, mandocello, electric bass, khamak, electric cello, voice, Suzuki Andes 25-f, harmonicas, melodicas, clarinet, bawu, hulusi, xaphoon, assorted flutes, whirly tubes, Fender Rhodes, Orff xylophone, boomwhackers, glockenspiel, tongue drums, cuíca, assorted drums and percussion. 

Contains field recordings captured in São Paulo (rain on steel blinds, birds) and Guarujá, Brazil (hydrophone ocean waves).

Mirante (2023)

In A Place Where There Is No Noise, Strive To Be A Noise

Archival performance from November 4, 2023

Violin - Maria van der Sloot
Cello - Beth Root Sandvoss
Piano - Suzanne Rueberg Gordon

Bleary was written for the Land's End Ensemble in 2018, and revised for a second performance in 2023.

bleary (2023)

Ways of Returning (2020) - for amplified string quartet and electronics
Part I (Imitation)
Part II (Farbenfuge)
Part III (Monophony)

Performed by: Quatuor Bozzini
Electronics - Anthony Tan

Aesthetically, this work represents the mixing of the Classical String Quartet genre with Noise, and Dark Ambient genre signifiers. Theoretically, the work explores timbre through the historical abstraction of modal and tonal counterpoint. The first movement builds timbre through the imitation of acoustic strings by sampled, and synthetically modelled strings. The second movement is a timbre fugue. The third movement is an Industrial Ritual and explores the micro-synchronicity within a pulsation and its effect on timbral blend.

Ways of Returning (2020) - Part II (farbenfuge) - Quatuor Bozzini - Live Recording

Composer, Electronic Musician, Improvising pianist

Ways of Returning (2020) - Part II (farbenfuge) - Quatuor Bozzini - Live Recording

Anthony Tan

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