Parallax (2013)

grandFather (2012-14) for amplified bassoon
by Chris Fisher-Lochhead

Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon
Galvin Hall, Northwestern University
January 22, 2016

grandFather (Premiere)

like a halo
for prepared violin, soprano, alto sax, horn, harp & piano with amplification & electronics
(2014, rev 2015) 
commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente
performed by Wet Ink


like a halo

Nox is scored for an open instrumentation comprised of voices, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. The performers are organized into four groups that surround the audience. The result is an immersive and highly visceral sonic experience that is played in partial darkness.

The title of the piece is drawn from Anne Carson's Nox, an elegiac scrapbook filled with bits of letters, photos, personal reflections, and a moving translation of poem No. 101 by Catullus. Through the linear and spatial arrangement of these artifacts, Carson forges an intense atmosphere that connects the ancient and the modern, intimacy and distance, present experience and memory. These connected oppositions emerge within the music despite the fact that the piece itself is not expressly programmatic. 

Nox was commissioned by the Ear Taxi Festival and is dedicated to Augusta Read Thomas.

WORLDEATER [2016]
for two trombonists
commissioned by RAGE Thormbones (Weston Olencki & Matt Barbier)

Recorded at the HUSEAC Studios at Harvard University
Performed by Weston Olencki & Matt Barbier
Recorded by Timothy McCormack
Mixed/mastered by Weston Olencki
Assistance given by Seth Torres

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/worldeater

http://www.westonolencki.com/
https://soundcloud.com/wolencki
http://www.mattbarbier.com/
https://soundcloud.com/mattbarbier-1

WORLDEATER [2016]

Burial

Recorded live with Grant Wallace Band at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, 11 April 2017 -- piano improvisation linking our new tune "After Barbarian Days" with oldfave "Oranjestraat."

Barbarian To Oranje

I Come Near You

"We Travel the Spaceways"
from The Magnificent Pretty Boy
by the Grant Wallace Band

Performed at Chatter, Albuquerque (January 2018)
Ben Hjertmann, voice/percussion
Chris Fisher-Lochhead, viola/voice
Luke Gullickson, piano/voice
Tychiko Cox, voice
Trumpet - Mark Hyams
Clarinet - Mike Gruetzner
Percussion - Jeff Cornelius

grandFather (Premiere)

Chris Fisher-Lochhead

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