Altitudes for flute and harp (2012)

Live recording from the Atlante Sonoro 2022 Festival Rome (Italy)
Freon Ensemble
Giuseppe Pelura flute and Nazarena Recchia harp.

"Down along the fjord I am about to soar, among birds, forests and clouds when I remember not having wings ... or maybe finally yes."

"Giù lungo il fiordo mi sto per librare, tra uccelli, foreste e nubi quando ricordo di non avere le ali... o forse finalmente sì".

In memoriam di Elisa Del Simone (1964-2011)

Altitudes for flute and harp

Extract from work of musical theater  'La rete dell'oro' for baritone and ensemble (flute, clarinet in b, violin, cello, piano and percussion).Composer: Carla Magnan 
Dramaturgy: Carla Magnan based on text from Ovidio and Shakespeare. 
Commission: Fiarì Ensemble
Fiarì Ensemble, Marilena Solavagione, conductor; Maurizio Leoni, baritone. 
Publisher: Edizioni musicali Rai Trade
Live: 8 novembre 2005 -  Torino, CineTeatro Baretti 


Carla Magnan: extract from work of musical theater 'La rete dell'oro' for baritone and ensemble

Ron Kuivila: A City of No Allusions (2012)

for Piano and electronics through transducers 
Mariangela Vacatello, piano
Mike Solomon, sound design
12.06.2017 Festival MANIFESTE-Ircam - Paris - Centre G.Pompidou        live recording

Entr'ouvert

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers and PLAY IT LOUD :)

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics.
Based on a short film by Peter Tscherkassky (you can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASwqIWjaVI). 
Commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course. Supported by Ulysses Network, co-funded by Creative Europe Programm.

Live Recording at Centralstation, Darmstadt 2018 
NIKEL Ensemble (Brian Archinal, Yaron Deutsch, Antoine Francoise, Patrick Stadler)
Sound Engineer: Alfred Reiter
Recording: Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics [Please, use headphones!!]

Violin I, Lara Lewison
Violin II, Alan Yao
Viola, Mac Waters
Violoncello, Evan Caplinger

The idea for this piece came out of the experience of sitting at many a concert and at a particularly quiet moment there being an audible electric hum from some apparatus in the room. This hum, always the same one, is known as the mains hum and it's due to the 60 Hz frequency that powers the grid in most of the Americas (with a 50hz cousin in Europe and Africa). This piece is based on a spectral analysis of that hum with all the pitch content derived from its overtones. The piece is a meditation on the inevitability of noise and explores the harmonies, melodies, and violence hidden within the sounds that persist around us always on the periphery of our perception.

String Quartet No. 1

Carla Magnan IL MAGNIFICO CANOCCHIALE
(2019 by STRADIVARIUS)
From CD by LowBb bassoon cluster:
Giorgio Mandolesi and Maurizio Barigione,  fagottino; 
Massimo Ferretti Incerti, bassoon; Alessio Pisani, contrabassoon.
Commission: Alessio Pisani

Il Magnifico Cannocchiale  for two fagottini, bassoon and contrabassoon

Marco Lucchi : mellotron, synth, tape and treatments

9 dicembre 2019

stream and download here
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/track/langsam

Bandcamp

Langsam

Programme note

The piece is written in the style of pure repetitive minimalism, the texture is based on the counterpoint of regular pulsations. The choir is split into four micro-ensembles by regulating the texture clarity-density level and interpreting the old tradition of cori spezzati. The harmony is based on the slow sequences of diatonic scales, imitating overlaps of watercolour hues without distinct beginning/end outlines. The piece does not contain verbal text, only mormorando and vowels; hence there is no sound attacks paralleled with consonants of the verbal text. The only gesture in this piece - the sound emerging and submerging into silence, as if a tip of the iceberg revealing only small part of what the hearing cannot grasp, but may be able to imagine.

Perf.  by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, cond. Paul Hillier             

Il Magnifico Cannocchiale for two fagottini, bassoon and contrabassoon

carla magnan

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