A collection of compositions and improvisations for the Korg Volca Modular synthesizer.
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Ganymede

Selfish Man

Gordon gives Desiree the final page of the book so they can make the 'ultimate high.'

Amstardam - The Missing Page

CTH 02 Coming To Terms

"Dogfight" is an action-oriented, fast-moving full orchestra track that throws the listener into the heat of combat. This piece combines quick-moving string parts and ostinatos with dynamic, booming brass chords, distinct melodies throughout the orchestra and a suspenseful buildup and climax. This piece serves as a cue for an action scene or key moment in a story.

Life Before Your Eyes

Dogfight

The opening to an unmade epic thing.

Composed/Improvised/Performed by Colin Norrby and Christopher Norby during Spring/Summer 2012.

dep4 (2012) Colin and Christopher Nor(r)by

Velvet Space Train

Mombacho
for harp, guitar, cimbalom, double bass and electronics
by Gabriel Bolaños Chamorro
réalisation informatique musicale: Monica Gil Giraldo
2019

commissioned by CIRM, National Center for Creation of Music (Nice, France) 
for the 2019 MANCA festival 
work done in the studios of CIRM
premiered by Ensemble C. Barré

Located in Granada, Nicaragua, the Mombacho is an active volcano with a tropical rainforest on its summit. When I lived near the volcano, I would frequently hike in the rainforest, and became fascinated by the volcano’s rich sonic ecosystem. Thousands of different species of insects, birds, reptiles, and other animals that inhabit the rainforest create complex overlapping sounds that mix with the natural soundscape of the weather, the trees, and even the human inhabitants of the Mombacho.

This piece was inspired by this beautiful sound world. It is an exploration of the cyclical, diurnal, and seasonal changes of the rainforest’s sonic ecosystem. The quartet plays a variety of textures that continuously evolve through a slow microtonal harmonic progression, while each instrument is amplified and spatialized around the audience using a surround-sound ambisonic speaker setup. The audience is immersed in the ensemble’s sound while it constantly moves, evolves and interacts in the space around them. 

To complement the instrumental sound of the quartet, and to add an additional element of unfamiliarity, an electronic tape part is synchronized with the instrumentalists and also spatialized around the audience. Most of the tape part was produced by recording household objects, and processing them with various studio techniques, and occasionally with a Buchla modular synthesizer. The goal was to create en electronic part that sounds as natural and organic as possible, that blends with the plucked strings of the ensemble, while complementing the quartet’s timbral palette.

Mombacho

One movement from the multimedia performance work 'Some Day' -  a 2020 Walled City Music Festival commission.

Taken from live performance at The Glassworks, Derry, March 2020.

Flute: Sabrina Hu
Cello: Gerald Peregrine
Piano/Synth: Cathal Breslin

Lament

This is the end title track for a Sean Coyle's short film, False Nine.

Lament

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