Just discovered your music and am quite moved...

So unique and beautiful. New music doesn't have to be jarring and confrontational. It's fine if it is but there are other options. Thank you.

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/bel-canto/

Bel Canto

Commissioned by Ensemble Kore with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

Recipient of the 2011 Jules-Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (Canada’s highest honour for composition)

Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano
Geneviève Déraspe, alto flute
Xavier Brossard-Ménard, clarinet
Jonathan Barriault, guitar
John Corban, violin
Pemi Paull, viola
Yegor Dyachkov, cello

The piece is above all a portrait Maria Callas. It’s based on the opening statement (the opening sighs) of Puccini’s Vissi d’arte – Maria Callas’ live version of it, with all the full generosity of her vibrato, swoops and portamenti (all the things outside of notation). At the beginning, it’s as if we hear her young voice, and towards the end, the voice of her later years.

The path of the piece through time is not only about the ageing of an extraordinary woman, but also about the listener. Time slows down to allow for an engagement with detail, for a closeness or submersion in the sound, and possibly for clarity or meditative stillness.

Two simultaneous ensembles perform here without coordinating with each other. This makes for layers of melody, creating a sonic depth of field – echoing perhaps the depth of the Greek landscape in which I felt the warm revelation that originally inspired this piece. Moreover, to separate the ensemble into two smaller groups, without conductor, enables an intense chamber-listening between the players. This intimacy allows them to carry out with great musicality all of the non-notatable things I mentioned earlier – the swoops and vibrato, and all the unnamable subtleties of vocality.

Bel Canto

Bel Canto, Ensemble Kore with Marie-Annick Béliveau (2010)

Part of the compilation "Ambient selection part I" by the Argentinian label Temiong. 

You can download the track here: https://temiongrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-selection-part-i

Please support the participating artists by paying for the music!

Ambient Selection Part I

Train du Nord

Rituals

SIDE 1
Written, performed and recorded by Emma Grace
Mastered and post-produced by Capitano Merletti at Studio Garp, Venice
Produced by Pipapop Records, Artwork album cover by Giorgia Ragnacci.
Upcoming album date February 26th 2020

4 - One Morning On Our Fields

Edit of the 25minutes track, taken from "Ostwall". Tape out on 28.02.2020

Ostwall

N (83) - Ostwall (Edit)

initiation1.wav

BUBBLES (2019)
For Double Bass and Ensemble

Composed by: Valentin Jost
Commissioned by: Network For New Music, Philadelphia, USA
Performed by: Robert Black and Network For New Music Ensemble


Program note:

This work, dedicated to Robert Black, explores a light, fun, playful, innocent, and childlike musical space. The entire Solo Double Bass part, as well the rest of the sound world in general, is filled with many kinds of unique bubbles, floating and popping all around.

JOST - BUBBLES

Hi all,

i have purchased a Korg Wavestate, which arrived today and I have out together my first dark ambient track. This is more to test volumes and how it records into Logic X

First Korg Wavestate Dark Ambient experiment - 13/05/2020

Henrik delivers his follow-up album on Ambientologist, Kval, strengthening his crossing of medieval evocation and meditative ambient cello.

A story of choices, necessary suffering, and being human.

CDs and download available here: bit.ly/3n8EFnx

Kval

Henrik Meierkord - Fjäril

Marco Lucchi : piano and analog synthesizer

27 novembre 2020

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A água da chuva desce a ladeira.

        É uma água ansiosa.

Faz lagos e rios pequenos, e cheira

        A terra a ditosa.

Há muito que contar a dor e o pranto

        De o amor os não querer...

Mas eu, que também o não tenho, o que canto

        É uma coisa qualquer.

Fernando Pessoa

Bel Canto, Ensemble Kore with Marie-Annick Béliveau (2010)

Cassandra Miller composer

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