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Study nº 8 (Molto moderato) from Bozza's 16 Studies for trumpet published by Alphonse Leduc in 1950 (composition date unknown).

Gregorian chant is the inspirational source for this short and beautiful work.
My version transposes it a whole tone up and I use an F-bass recorder by Küng + bell hole key by Daniel Bernaza.

Étude Nº 8 from 16 Études pour trompette • E. Bozza (1905~1991)

ASKO Ensemble, w/ CLIFF CREGO conducting. PART II begins just as the first tape interpolation ends...

One of the many fragmentations of Western musical practice, as we know it, is the fragmentation of sound and place and time of year. I think that is a mistake. The energy of a piece, if its good, if its powerful, naturally resonates with, or is "in tune" with certain times of day and year. DESERTS, for me, has always been such "a winter" piece. It's a vision of a new musical world with unsurpassed richness of composite sound and rhythmic primal corporeal complexity that seems all the more remarkable if it's played well under the faintly returning light of distant stars. See what you think . . . 

There are many reasons why the music of Varese is still important, still relevant. ONE, is an unsurpassed sense of natural complexity in composite sound, that is, sounds within sounds within sounds. Like Ives & Stravinsky, Varese was never handicapped by what I would call the deadend path and way of thinking of Schoenberg and the Vienna school. ANOTHER, is voice. Both of the INDIVIDUAL, and the COLLECTIVE. The music is always fulling visceral and embodied. Indeed, this intensely primal vocal quality is one of its key features, and also what is most lacking in current contemporary performance practice generally. A THIRD which might be mentioned briefly, is geometric tempi relationships. RELATIONSHIP--in Time & Space, in Rhythm & Sound--is everything in DESERTS. From beginning to end.


DESERTS, by Edgar Varèse, for small orchestra & tape (part 2)

The New York New Music Ensemble

Eduardo Leandro, conductor
Emi Ferguson, flute
Gleb Kanasevich, clarinets
Leah Asher, violin
Michael Nicolas, violoncello
Eric Huebner, piano
Daniel Druckman, percussion

An effulgence fills the southern boughs

Jaehyuck Choi (1994) - Signal (2022)
for soprano saxophone and trombone (2022)

Live at Concours Nicati 2023
26.08.2023

Duo Signal 
Alejandro Oliván - soprano saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

https://www.duosignal.net/

Audio recording: Christophe Egea
Audio mix and mastering: Clément Marie

Salquin Konzertsaal, Hochschule Luzern-Musik

Jaehyuck Choi - Signal (2022) - live, Luzern - 26.08.2023

Diego Tedesco’s De los Sos Ojos was commissioned in 2022 and is an open score in which Cappa has enough freedom to display her histrionic virtuosity. Tedesco writes, “Distortion, nonsense and limits of comprehension are part of the work, and the multiple types of reverb add a layer of polyphony that complement and challenge the entire piece.”
It's part of the album "Una" by Argeninian soprano Natalia Cappa realized by New focus recordings (NY).

De los sos ojos (2023)

This is a mixdown of tracks recorded in cloud forest on the Huon Peninsula, PNG in 2017

Dawn in a tropical cloud forest

Incidences (1996) for solo multipercussion by Frédéric Durieux. 

May 2015

Frédéric Durieux - Incidences

Part of the Festival of Sacred Music Series at The New School at Commonweal

Join us for the third in a series of sacred music celebrations at Commonweal, an afternoon duet of sarod and tabla with Manik Khan and Nilan Chaudhuri. 

Part of the Festival of Sacred Music Series

These concerts are presented in collaboration with long-time Commonweal friend Toby Symington, executive director of the Lloyd Symington Foundation and transpersonal astrologer. Held at the solstice and equinox, the concerts—and gatherings afterward—are designed to bring people together in a convivial setting around music which delights, inspires, and elevates the soul. From Toby:

Manik Khan has been steeped in the ancient melodies of North Indian classical music since birth. The youngest son of the legendary Sarod maestro, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, he grew up listening to his father in countless concerts and attending his classes at the esteemed Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California. He initially studied tabla under the guidance of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, but the greater call to follow in the footsteps of his family brought Manik, at the age of 13, to formally train on the Sarod with his father. He spent his formative years accompanying his father on stage, touring for the last decade of his father's extensive and iconic performance career. Manik's own solo career has brought him throughout India, South America, and the United States.

Nilan Chaudhuri is a Bay Area based percussionist, educator, and performer. Initiated into the tradition of Indian Classical Music at the age of five by his father, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Nilan has been performing as a tabla soloist and accompanist for nearly two decades. Drawing inspiration from his father’s innovative approach to classical tabla solo,  Nilan was determined from a young age to be a soloist. In addition to maintaining a rigorous performing schedule, Nilan teaches Tabla throughout the Bay Area as a faculty member at the Ali Akbar College of Music, in San Rafael, and as the Director of Percussion at Chitresh Das Institute, in San Mateo. He also serves as an archivist at the Ali Akbar College of Music, where the construction of a musical archive spanning 40 years of his Father’s work, is underway. It’s his lifelong mission to contribute to the preservation and enrichment of Indian Classical percussion. 

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An Afternoon of Indian Classical Music with Manik Khan and Nilan Chauduri

Pied Butcherbird song at dawn, accompanied by White-winged Fairywren, Trillers, Miners, Emu booms,  Magpies et al, in the NSW outback near Lightning Ridge

Pied Butcherbird Sunrise Recital

Published in MPT Rhythms of the Land: Focus on the Poetry of Nature

My heart is an active volcano by Begoña Ugalde, translated from Spanish (Chile) by Drago Yurac

Read this poem online: https://modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/my-heart-is-an-active-volcano/


My heart is an active volcano: Begoña Ugalde, translated by Drago Yurac

Water loss on land adds to rising seas: global drying with gravity satellite expert Jay Famiglietti.  Is this planet actually a living cooperative? Explore with science journalist Ferris Jabr. Expect abrupt shifts in big systems, from ocean currents to ice - new science led by Sjoerd Terpstra.  Three interviews.

Global drying, Gaia & Abrupt Change

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

DESERTS, by Edgar Varèse, for small orchestra & tape (part 2)

Cliff Crego

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