Jay Campbell, multi-tracked cello, recording/mixing
excerpt from the middle of a 2 1/2 hour realization, 2020

Descensus Trio Jay's version (excerpt) 2020

music composed by Martin Arnold (2019); words: traditional
performed by:
Sharron Kraus: voice; bamboo flute
Angharad Davies: voice; violin
Martin Arnold: melodica
BBC Scottish Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

The Gay Goshawk (excerpt)

Twisted Towers

Ear To The Ground

Commissioned by Ensemble Contrechamps - Geneva 

First performance by members of Ensemble Contrechamps 

Antoine Françoise - piano 
Susanne Peters - bass flute 
Laurent Bruttin - bass clarinet 

https://contrechamps.ch

@La Cave 12 Geneva 

https://www.cave12.org

Nicolas Roulive - electronics
David Poissonnier - sound engineer

"Toccatina" for bass flute, bass clarinet, piano and electronics (2019-2020)

For Bass Clarinet and 4-Channel Audio

Bass Clarinet: Heather Roche

Art: Gerhard Richter

Murky Windows and Cloudy Horizons (2020)

World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

All Silver

All Silver (extended)

all silver (extended)

For "Al Amakine", Abdessamad El Montassir, 2016-2020

Création sonore réalisée pour l'installation "Al Amakine" d'Abdessamad El Montassir en collaboration avec Matthieu Guillin, compositeur.
Composée originellement sur un système 8.1.
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Coproduction avec/with: Abdessamad El Montassir, Le Cube – independent art room, Carte Blanche par Al Safar, l'Institut Français du Maroc, l’IMéRA avec l’aide du Labex RFIEA+, le gmem-CNCM-Marseille et la plateforme CHRONIQUES, soutenue par la Région Sud, la Ville de Marseille et l'Institut Français à Paris, coordonnée par SECONDE NATURE et ZINC .
Pièce sonore réalisée en collaboration avec le compositeur Matthieu Guillin.
Poésies/poetry : R'wijel Wel M’birik, Sid Ahmed Wel M'liha, Baibouh Wel Elhaj, Badi Wel M'hamed Salem
Voix/voice : Wel Sidi
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"Al Amakine", ravive les micro-histoires et les archives non-matérielles du Sahara au sud du Maroc, rendues invisibles.
Transmis oralement par les populations locales dans un langage poétique, ces témoignages relatent des événements politiques, culturels et sociaux importants qui se sont déroulés dans cet espace géographique et constituent une matière historiographique essentielle.
En collaboration avec des poètes et des citoyens-témoins, Abdessamad El Montassir cherche minutieusement les lieux porteurs de ces événements latents afin de les mettre en lumière.
En ré-activant ces récits méconnus, il ouvre un interstice inédit qui laisse émerger et se déployer une histoire alternative et endogène de ce territoire.

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Sound creation created for the installation "Al Amakine" by Abdessamad El Montassir in collaboration with Matthieu Guillin, composer.
Originally composed on an 8.1 system.
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"Al Amakine", revives the micro-histories and non-material archives from the Sahara to the south of Morocco, made invisible.
Transmitted orally by the local populations in a poetic language, these testimonies recount important political, cultural and social events that took place in this geographical space and constitute essential historiographical material.
In collaboration with poets and citizen-witnesses, Abdessamad El Montassir meticulously seeks out the places where these latent events take place in order to bring them to light.
By reactivating these little-known narratives, he opens up an unprecedented gap that allows an alternative and endogenous history of this territory to emerge and unfold.

"Al Amakine" (stereo reduction for headphone)

Modifié

for percussion trio

Instrumentation: three bass drums, each prepared with six electric bass strings, vibrators, aluminum foil, and coins

premiered and commissioned by line upon line percussion: Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk, Matthew Teodori

Program note: 

The internet is ubiquitous but largely experienced as immaterial. Often it is experienced like a ghost or spirit; an invisible, ethereal animating force rapidly reshaping what we think of as reality.
While learning about the United States National Security Agency’s global spying program, exposed by Edward Snowden, I was struck by the descriptions of the physical infrastructure that makes the internet function. I knew nothing about the fiber optic cables buried at the bottom of the ocean which allow the internet to function across continents. These extremely thin cables send patterns of light across oceans, transmitting data. They create a web of wires wrapping around the world, like a sunken land-bridge. Our experiences, conversations, hopes, dreams, and intimate secrets are transmitted from one continent to another through these thin threads of light; they bind the world together in this strange, beautiful, and terrifying way.

Sunken Landscape: thread of light (2020)

zoom live recording at Arboretum Festival, August 19th 2017

arranged for 11 strings
Forest Strings Ensemble

Carissa Klopoushak
Marc Djokic
Andrea Armijo Fortin
Heather Schnarr
Hilda Cowie
Marjolaine Lambert
Marlena Pellegrino
Thaddeus Morden
Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Sonya Probst
Paul Casey

Descensus Trio Jay's version (excerpt) 2020

Catherine Lamb