Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics @wheelwright

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

image by Lani Maynard

Crossing time-zones
Godforsaken deserts
Midnight in transit stations
The illusion of freedom
Written in blood written in stone

It's just an idea
It's just an idea

The twisted wreck
Of a helicopter gunship
A distant call to prayer
Sweet liquorice and bitter cigarettes

It's just an idea [...]

He carries her in his heart
She's all he had now all he has
White knuckles holding fast
His mother's photograph in a young man’s hands

Now everything is lost
Now everything is lost

They say half the future’s buried in the past
But the fallen will not weep for us
When it’s our time to choose

It's just an idea [...]

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Sweet Licorice And Bitter Cigarettes (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Blink Twice is back here on my main ME profile - 
Available on Bandcamp - https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/blink-twice-residual-energy-momentum

Thanks for listening

Blink Twice - Residual Energy and Momentum

fractal zoom

Volume 1

Vehicular Passerine Lariat

Parallel

Tineoj: Harp Solo

Mutant by WÜST

Gates, bellsounds pitched down and overdriven sytnths

More on this 593rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, The Charm (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians), at: https://disquiet.com/0593/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0593-the-charm/

As By Incident Or Accident Featuring Martinsea And Michele Isoni [disquiet0593]

Based on a tape loop recording of a Brahms lullaby music box.

Music box

I Sing the Body Electric (2020)
by Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Claudia Jane Scroccaro, live electronics
Arnaud De la Celle, sound engineer
Mikhail Malt, Encadrement Pédagogique

Recorded the 1st of July 2020 in the Grand Salle du Centre Pompidou
Manifeste Festival 2020 - IRCAM, Paris

I sing the body electric (2020) for Double Bass and Electronics - Florentin Ginot

In a constant pursuit of a theatrical dramatization of sound, I am deeply interested in electronic music, music of oral tradition and, for their physical presence and sonic qualities, bass instruments. By delving into the physical connection between the musician and the large instrument, I aim to transport listeners into visually engaging compositions, where micro-rhythms and grooves hold a central role. One of my main concerns is represented by an effort to develop structures based on techniques used for sound synthesis and electronic treatments. More generically it reveals my lifelong compositional aim: that is to attain a consistency between the approach in composing for instruments as well as for electronics, an approach that I attempt to integrate and structure through computer-aided composition tools that I personally develop. 

Raised in one of the "Pasolinian" working-class neighborhoods in the West side of Rome, and having spent most of my adolescence in direct contact with the street, I have always been drawn to the poetic violence of this reality. The tension between a personal inclination for introspection and a life deeply entrenched in a vibrant, yet challenging, urban environment has been a constant companion, shaping and defining my creative persona. 

In my music, this tension gives rise to a dramaturgy that oscillates between two extreme temporalities, leading to a dynamic interplay between kaleidoscopic movements and introspective explorations. One is tethered to overwhelming, vertiginous, overflowing, and compulsive rhythms, while the other is more intimate, poetic, and intertwined with the expressivity of the spoken word – like in the song cycle Gradual Abruptness (2022), on the verses of the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli (daughter of the anti-fascist partisan Carlo Rosselli).

These axes of research find contrasting artistic declinations, leading to the composition of [S]toccata (2019) and High Voltage Toccata (2021), – where the pianist and organist are challenged in a body duel with the instrument  – of I Sing the Body Electric (2020) – where the double bass becomes one organic body with the musician and with the electronics – in Overdrive (2020), a low-frequency trio, transposed into a distorted and paroxysmic world – or, again, in Lignes à Haute Tension (2023) for 12 spatialised cellos ¬– where the conductor, in the center of a network of instruments, controlling the trajectories of sound in space. 

Ongoing Projects :
On the Edge, for 6 soloists choir and electronics
Texts by Amelia Rosselli, Sylvia Plath and Dino Campana
Premiere : SWR Vokalensemble / Donaueschinger Musiktage (Donaueschingen, DE) / 2024

Espaces Blancs, for soprano, clarinet, trumpet, double bass and electronics
Premiere : Commande d'État : Mathilde Barthelemy / Compagnie Angle Aigu / GMEM / Festival Propagations
(Marseille, FR) / 2025

Faro, for soprano, ensemble and electronics
Esemble Musikfabrik / Festival ManiFeste / IRCAM (Paris, FR) / 2025

I sing the body electric (2020) for Double Bass and Electronics - Florentin Ginot

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