Love that bright vox effect. Does the Blofeld have a variety of sounds you can vary? That's a new one to me. :)

Charming electro. Bright and friendly feel. Pleasant hopeful feel too (to go with the title). Nice work, Martin.

Wow, das klingt großartig. Sehr roh & direkt, aber auch verspielt & träumerisch.

Drums: Elektron Model Samples
Strings/Pad: Prophet Rev 2
Synth Vox: Waldorf Blofeld
Acid-line: MAM MB33
Mixing: Behringer X1222 mixer
Effects: TC Electronic Flashback Delay

Software mastering: Variety of Sound TDR Feedback compressor
Melda MEqualizer

Thanks to my son Gianluca for the photo :)

Never Too Late

Premiered by Riot Ensemble and Tyler Bouque. Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.
Commissioned by the Gaudeamus Foundation.

For Baritone, Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Double Bass, and Percussion
no processing or fixed media (in the traditional sense)

consumed; teeth shut (2022)for Baritone, Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Double Bass, & Percussion

_not if but when

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
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'Machrie' and 'Whiting Bay' E.P.s  are available for download on Beatport.

https://www.beatport.com/release/whiting-bay-ep/1887794

https://www.beatport.com/release/machrie/1873968

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