Make a journey into a dead space maze, if you can make the time to listen...

Cheap Existence

particle in a box

London’s Riot Ensemble present works by four of the most important composers in contemporary music today—Chaya Czernowin, Liza Lim, Rebecca Saunders, and Anna Thorvaldsdóttir—alongside rising star Mirela Ivicevic, who was commissioned as part of the ensemble’s 2017 Call for Scores. Four of the works are recorded here for the first time.

Inspired by the poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi, Liza Lim’s violin concerto Speak, Be Silent, featuring American violinist Sarah Saviet as soloist, explores ideas of union and connec on, as well as the ecstasy that comes at moments of change or transition. The atmospheric Ró—the Icelandic word for serenity—by Anna Thorvaldsdóttir is a piece of quiet but threatening moods that eventually comes to convey a fragile sense of identity and wholeness. In stark contrast, Mirela Ivicevic’s Baby Magnify/Lilith’s New Toy features the capricious demon and seductress Lilith experimenting her way through a series of alchemical transformations.

Raw sonic materials come to the fore once more in Chaya Czernowin’s Ayre ..., a study in forms of instrumental resistance, friction, and flow. Despite its title, it is not a song in any conventional sense but is instead a bare impression of musical line, extended, elongated, and unadorned. Finally, Rebecca Saunders’ Stirrings Still II continues a longstanding fascination with the writings of Samuel Becket, sharing its title with Becket’s final work of prose. Through its fragile and haunting soundworld, the piece’s brittle textures and distant keening explore minute musical activities on the edge of extinction.

Riot Ensemble is one of the UK’s most ambitious new music ensembles. With an Artistic Board of 20 members and a wide network of performers, curators, commissioners, and collaborators, Riot Ensemble are dedicated to creating and producing a diverse array of projects in the UK and Europe. They are particularly active in bringing emerging international voices into the British new-music scene, and since 2012 have given 184 world and UK premieres by composers from more than thirty countries. An annual call for scores has resulted in almost twenty commissions. Riot Ensemble has performed at hcmf// (UK), Dark Music Days (Iceland), Tampere Biennale (Finland), Nordic Music Days (Sweden), Spitalfields Music Festival (UK), and Música en Segura (Spain).

Speak, Be Silent

Ayre: Towed through plumes, thicket, asphalt, sawdust and hazardous air I shall not forget the sound of

HCR20 | Chaya Czernowin: Ayre ... [excerpt]

irkalla

SEIZURES - Orchids

A creepy recording I made while experimenting with loops.

Haunted Beckoning

Jaka Berger - prepared drums
Marina Džukljev - piano
Samo Šalamon - acoustic guitars

Music by Berger, Džukljev and Šalamon
Themes by Jaka Berger

Released at FMR records (UK) in 2019.

Physical copy avaliable:
marinakeys@gmail.com
or
www.fmr-records.com

released May 3, 2019

Recorded by Jure Gruden
Mixed and mastered by Jure Gruden and Jaka Berger
Recorded in Dejan Berden studio in 2018
Artwork by Brgs

https://marinadzukljev.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-dust-trio-hilarious-experts

Fresh Dust Trio - Coal Trains

Sometimes we can drink.. and sometimes we can watch Lana Del Rey.
But sometimes we can feel the vibrations of psychedelic music..
as we can think..

Non-quality piece of Improvisation

Marco Lucchi : toy harp
Pete Swinton : synth and electronics

novembre 2020

Marco Lucchi & Pete Swinton - toy harp nos. 1,2,5

Frozen Yoghurt Promenade

Founded in 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR) is a label devoted to new music. Based at the University of Huddersfield, and established in partnership between CeReNeM (the Centre for Research in New Music), Huddersfield University Press, and hcmf//, HCR features both established and emerging artists at the cutting edge of music making, including diverse innovations in instrumental composition, electronics, and free improvisation. HCR releases have been recorded and produced both in-house at the university and with a broad selection of professional partners, including hcmf//, ZKM, and Radio Bremen, and have attracted exceptional press attention for a label of its size. HCR produces outward-facing compilations, internationally contextualised but centred on new music in the UK. The label develops concept-driven releases, typically featuring a single performing artist and multiple composers, often drawing on the resources of CeReNeM’s industry partnerships and its international research network.  
 
Since 2015, HCR has been exclusively distributed by NMC Recordings.

HCR20 | Chaya Czernowin: Ayre ... [excerpt]

HCR: Huddersfield Contemporary Records

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