Music: Iva Casian-Lakos
Mix: David Crowell

Thymos

“Of Breath and Feeding Back” commissioned and performed by Yasmina Spiegelberg (2023) Solo Clarinet and Live Electronics
https://www.yasminaspiegelberg.com/

This work was developed with the support of Avaloch Farm Music Institute

Of Breath And Feeding Back

Ancillary Vestiges - Double Bass, Live Electronics, Fixed Media

Alone

Flute: Zack Osinski
Mezzo Soprano: Caroline Nielson
Piano: Zoe Yucong Wang
Viola: Joshua Wareham
Conductor: Edo Frenkel
Performance: November 22nd, 8 PM: Eastman Composers Concert
Venue: Hatch Hall, Eastman School of Music 

Text: Edgar Allan Poe 
From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were—I have not seen 
As others saw—I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring— 
From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow—I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone— 
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— 
Then—in my childhood—in the dawn 
Of a most stormy life—was drawn 
From ev’ry depth of good and ill 
The mystery which binds me still— 
From the torrent, or the fountain— 
From the red cliff of the mountain— 
From the sun that ’round me roll’d 
In its autumn tint of gold— 
From the lightning in the sky 
As it pass’d me flying by— 
From the thunder, and the storm— 
And the cloud that took the form 
(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 
Of a demon in my view—

Alone [sop, fl, vla, pno]

Cello - Burkart Zeller from E-MEX Ensemble (https://e-mex.de/)

Synthetis Summer Courses in Radziejowice, Poland.

if you want more:
 https://youtu.be/1UCAqic8rkQ

SOLissimo (2018) for solo cello

Premiered by OSSIA on 12/5/18 in Kilbourn Hall

Raleigh Fagerhaug, alto saxophone
Chandler Brown, motors and speakers
Andrew Lauler, percussion
Rafael Enciso, bass
Kens Lui, conductor

As I experimented with how to make motors into a musical instrument, I found it compelling to think of them almost as living or partially living things. Since I was building the motor instrument based on how I moved or wanted to move to run it, this partially living thing felt more inherently like an extension of my body than most other instruments. I kept these two ideas in mind as I wrote the piece and as I continued to design the instrument.

Skin lives in wires (2018)

INTERVIEW & BROADCAST: https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/creation-mondiale-l-integrale/ripped-tapestry-de-joel-jarventausta-laureat-du-concours-ile-de-creations-2019-diffusion-integrale-69955

Written in August - November 2018
Performed by Orchestre national d'Île de France, conducted by Jean Deroyer, Centre des bords de Marne, Perreux-sur-Marne, France - 21.02.2019

Recipient of 1st Prize in the 7th Edition of the Île de Créations Composition Competition.

Ripped Tapestry is built of five short movements, all responding to the famous anonymous medieval tune - l’homme armé - in either structural, harmonic or melodic ways. The title refers to the idea of an imaginary tapestry - depicting the armed man - destroyed, ripped apart resulting in an abstracted version of the original. The music follows in this vein.

Ripped Tapestry is a sister piece to Stonewalls (2017) which responds to a medieval plainchant too, however not from France but Finland.
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Recording courtesy of France Musique & Radio France

Ripped Tapestry - for orchestra (2018)

U šestom izdanju našeg podcasta posvećenog improvizaciji gostuje Iva Casián-Lakoš, američka čelistica hrvatskog porijekla. Uz dvije improvizirane izvedbe, od kojih je jedna njezine kompozicije "Low Tide", s Casián-Lakoš smo razgovarali o improvizaciji u njezinom glazbenom obrazovanju i djelovanju, položaju žena u klasičnoj glazbi i utjecaju Black Lives Matter pokreta na klasičnu glazbu u SAD-u.

Podcast je snimio i zvučno obradio Lujo Parežanin.

Podcast je dijelom projekta Kultura kritičkog slušanja podržanog od strane Ministarstva kulture.

Improvizacije: Iva Casián-Lakoš

Yaz Lancaster: Neutral Objects (2020)

written for JACK Quartet & the National Sawdust Digital Discovery Festival's New Works Commissions / premiered on 11 December 2020

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"Milk, red hats, masks, toilet paper, soap, fireworks, straws, stamps & mailboxes.

In times of violence, protest & upheaval, “neutral objects” come to stand in the place of events, effectively “de-neutralizing” them as they become situated in new contexts. These objects on their own, decontextualized, represent the everyday." - Yaz

Upload art: "My neck is thinner than a hair: Engines" (1996-2001) by Walid Raad/The Atlas Group

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JACK Quartet is:
Christopher Otto & Austin Wulliman, violins
John Pickford-Richards, viola
Jay Campbell, cello

Neutral Objects

Yaz Lancaster: HOLDING___SPACE (2020)

for acoustic guitar(s), electric guitar(s), bitKlavier/keyboard(s) with processing, flexible “drone” instruments
written for Ensemble Decipher & performed live over zoom

HOLDING___SPACE

American composer and performer based in Wilmington, NC and Charleston, SC.
www.chelsealoew.com

Alone [sop, fl, vla, pno]

Chelsea Loew

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