... maybe so or maybe not

Improvisation for nohkan with some external noises (trains, bells, neighbours and others)
15.05.2021

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KLAUS

My first Naviar Haiku challenge (https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/). Based on this haiku by Ichihara Tayo-Jo (1776 – 1865)

The beginning of all art:
a song when planting a rice field
in the country’s inmost part.

It's surprising where inspiration takes you! This led me towards considering the growth and development of electroacoustic music since its seeds were planted in the middle of the last century. The piece is improbably based on an upbeat version of the old hymn that starts "We plough the fields and scatter...".

Made in REAPER from a freebie midi file, Sonuscore's The Orchestra and several effects.

Ploughing the Past (naviarhaiku384)

"The Land Of Silence" was commissioned by and is dedicated to Kimberley Lynch & Adrian Foster, who gave the work its first performance on 30 May 2021 in a concert broadcast from the majestic church of Saints-Anges Gardiens de Lachine in Montréal, Canada. 

The work is a setting for amplified soprano, live electronics & organ of the 1896 poem 'Beata Solitudo' by Ernest Dowson (1867 - 1900).

Beata Solitudo

What land of Silence,
   Where pale stars shine
On apple-blossom
   And dew-drenched vine,
   Is yours and mine?

The silent valley
   That we will find,
Where all the voices
   Of humankind
   Are left behind.

There all forgetting,
   Forgotten quite,
We will repose us,
   With our delight
   Hid out of sight.

The world forsaken,
   And out of mind
Honour and labour,
   We shall not find
   The stars unkind.

And men shall travail,
   And laugh and weep;
But we have vistas
   Of gods asleep,
   With dreams as deep.

A land of Silence,
   Where pale stars shine
On apple-blossoms
   And dew-drenched vine,
   Be yours and mine!

THE LAND OF SILENCE (2021)

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halF tranquiL

Dararat Chemnasiri   - Alto  Sax
Bruno  Gussoni -  nohkan
King Imagine -  electronics

King Imagine  & Dararat Chemnasiri  & Bruno Gussoni  -   GHS  529

Ambera

My Lagan Love on Recorder.mp3

Birth

Samples: U.S. Government / Craig Baldwin / Nashville bomber

Until Further Notice

Bruno Gussoni (born in 1951) is a flute player who works in the field of free improvisation/instant compositions. He plays several flutes (C flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo, shakuhachi, nohkan, shinobue, ryūteki), used to create a unique and personal language producing experimental flute sounds. He is not interested in the use of the flutes as “academic instruments”, he has given up on traditional techniques in favour of extended techniques like un-pitched breaths, multiple sounds, harmonics, overtones, whispers, microtones, keys percussion, and other sounds, all combined with breath, silence, soundscapes… exploring the acoustic possibility of the flutes, in the sound space and in relation with other improvisers.
He played/plays with: Don Cherry, Frank Lowe, Wadada Leo Smith, Jeanne Lee, Peter Kowald, Michel Doneda, Tetsu Saitoh, Edoardo Ricci, Matthias Schubert, Ove Volquartz, Joshua Weitzel, Ulrike Lentz, Anja Kreysing, Jane Rigler, Henry Koek, Christophe Meulien, André Darius, Eugenio Sanna, Iao Aea, Claudio Ferrari, Marcello Magliocchi, Angelo Contini, Guy-Frank Pellerin, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Matthias Boss, Lawrence Casserley, Daniel Thompson, Adrian Northover, Willy Van Buggenhout, Tom Jackson, Adam Bohman, Martin Mayes, Maresuke Okamoto, Bernadette Zeillinger, Diego Mune, Jean Demey, Vanessa Pettendorfer, Angelina Ertel, Eric Arn,  Andreas Eichorn, Elisabeth Kelvin, Herbert Lacina, Edward Reardon, Stephan Brodsky,  Phil Gibbs, Benedict Taylor, Joao Pedro Viegas,  Roberto Ottaviano, Yoram Rosilio, J.J.Duerinckx, Dan Roth, Anton Mobin, Roberto Del Piano, Nicola Guazzaloca, Donatello Pisanello, Michele Barontini, Marcio Mattos, Marilza Gouvea, and many others.
He collaborated with the videomakers Jutta Pryor, Ash Benness, Alexandra Bouge.
He partecipated as flute player on compositions of Cezary Ostrowski, and King Imagine.
He played nohkan for coreography of the japanese dancer Yukino Nono.
Actually he collaborate with Vanessa Pettendorfer in the organ/shakuhachi project, and with King Imagine online projects, including Vanessa Pettendorfer, Markus Breuss, Dararat Chemnasiri, Ana Foutel, Dirk Watchtealer and others.

https://brunogussoni.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/bruno-gussoni-flutech
https://soundcloud.com/fluctuation
https://soundcloud.com/flutespace
https://soundcloud.com/disaster-area
https://whitenoisegenerator.bandcamp.com/album/clockstop-2017
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeoshYzgRFB1LPkmgU9T-UA?view_as=subscriber
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeoshYzgRFB1LPkmgU9T-UA/playlists?view_as=subscriber
http://www.plustimbre.com/releases/0922019.html?fbclid=IwAR2SvTYJjo9f53_PbQozTgTi_ye9klI0wQbt87FexIbKeri4B6Opc-DBDnY
https://gommusic2.bandcamp.com/album/natural-sources
https://archive.org/details/Petroglyph499Nos_Namajs_and_Bruno_Gussoni-THE_NATIVE_CIRCLE
https://kingimagine2.bandcamp.com/album/between-the-universes
https://kingimagine2.bandcamp.com/album/king-imagine-online-sextet-2
https://peteswinton.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-flute-improvisations
https://lessthanone.bandcamp.com/album/wei-e-rose
https://panicgrass.bandcamp.com/.../panic-grass-and-feverfew
https://dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/track/for-bruno
https://brunogussoni.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations-for-organ-and-shakuhachi
https://brunogussoni.bandcamp.com/album/soundodyssee
https://brunogussoni.bandcamp.com/album/breathe
https://plustimbre.bandcamp.com/album/a-castle-of-ghosts

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