Name: Catch 22 by Cornel Sorian
Duration: 6 min 44 s
Description: A catch-22 is a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules

This is the intro music track for the newly released German audio-book production of Rebecca Gable's historic (medieval) novel "Das Haupt der Welt". It's basically about the rise of Otto I. , the first germanic emperor back in the 9th. century. 

Libs: #VSL, #Symphobia, #Eastwest, #Era-Medieval-Legends, #ActionStrings, #Cinesamples and others.

(c) 2013 by Marcel Schweder / Lübbe Audio

Soundtracks and pieces for films, various music for audio books, audio dramas, stage plays, videogames, concert hall... 

Head of the World - Das Haupt Der Welt - Theme

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnNXTWvTlEE
The music and video of “Astray” is based on a true story: Once I got lost for a night and the only thing I had with me were some Guarana beans in a bag. I got hungry so I ate all of these beans and because they contain a big dose of caffeine, i got the experience of existing beyond time and space itself. Trails seemed endless, yet brief and evidence of a near past seemed to be constantly returning in the present.

Astray

The Last Letter
Music for theater
This music has composed for the performance "The last letter". The story is about war and 3 ordinary men who are gathering in one small barricade during the war between Iran and Iraq
علی شهبازی
موسیقی نمایش آخرین نامه
با بازی نویدمحمدزاده
اجرا شده از سال 1388 الی 1393
Ali Shahbazi

The Last Letter

Pineal

Japan Suite

Get it!

Symbiosis

Andrea Biviano - fleeing from the moon #moon #adamaudio

My soundtrack of the steelworker image for adamaudio's contest.
Enjoy.

Lorenzo Confaloni for #adamaudio - Praising The #steelworker

Studio recording of my piece for bass oboe and fixed media, 'Ground Zero II.

Bass Oboe - Nicola Hands


Programme Notes:

'Ground Zero II' is the second piece I've written reflecting on the Syrian civil war; two years after 'Ground Zero' the picture had changed significantly, with the emergence of ISIS and the refugee crisis as prominent global topics.

Unlike 'Ground Zero', the electronic element in this piece is not live but a fixed tape part. The piece is constructed using harmony and melodic writing derived from the spectral analysis of a bass oboe multiphonic. Pitch classes used are almost entirely from the spectrum, with all microtonal pitches appearing in the tape part only as we simply hadn't worked out enough microtone fingerings to use them freely in the bass oboe! The opening melody consists of an ascending minor third (E to G) and a descending major third (G to Eb), of course leaving a semitone (Eb back to E) to complete the interval vector of this motif. The motif is developed by expanding it outwards to gradually include the rest of the pitch classes derived from the multiphonic's spectrum, using similar shapes and restricting horizontal intervals entirely to the three mentioned.

The piece plays with perspectives of scale; the opening sections focus entirely on development using the mode derived from the multiphonic's spectrum; the middle section features a multiphonic chorale, 'zooming out' of the one multiphonic and including pitch classes from outside its spectrum, though the horizontal intervallic consistency, itself still derived from the prominent pitch classes of the original multiphonic's spectrum, is maintained. The perspectives are linked by playing a melody derived from the opening motif above these same multiphonics sounding in the tape part. There is also a small element of further 'zooming in' on the three original pitches of the motif and melody, focusing on their spectra, whose prominent pitch classes also occur in the generative multiphonic spectrum.

This piece required research to be carried out, which I did with the help of oboist Michael Sluman. Together, we recorded a whole range of the bass oboe's sounds, all of which I then spectrally analysed in what I believe is the first such research to be carried out on the bass oboe. The collected data is available here: https://omarperacha.com/bass-oboe-spectral-data

'Ground Zero II' (2016) - Bass Oboe & Electronics

A catch-22 is a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules

Catch 22

Live recording of the premiere of my piece, 'Colour Etude II', at IKLECTIK Art Lab in London, 18 March 2017.

Performed by Xenia Pestova & Késia Decoté. Recorded and mixed by Saint Austral Sound.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYLWej-s064

Programme Note:

'Colour Etude II' was commissioned by keyboardist Xenia Pestova. The piece is scored for one or two toy pianos and live electronics. It was premiered as a duet by Xenia and Késia Decoté in March 2017, at a concert in London.

The piece is the second in a series exploring the strict application of certain spectral techniques influenced by the research of William Sethares, after 'Colour Etude I', this time with an added emphasis on improvisation. It makes use of two pitch sets; one from the spectral analysis of a toy piano's C4 (middle C), and one from its F4. The electronic components of the piece consist of two procedurally-generated and evolving soundscapes derived from the the analysed spectra, which provide the backdrop for the piece, and a sampler which contains toy piano notes tuned to pitches from these spectra that would otherwise be unplayable (microtones and notes in an extreme high register).

The electronics can be wholly controlled using the 'Colour Etude II: Live Electronics' iOS application, freely available for iPad & iPhone, which greatly streamlines the equipment requirements of this piece and increases portability. Alternative options are available, including a Supercollider patch to control the soundscapes and an EXS24 file for the sampler.

The score provides a series of text instructions, pitch restrictions and some notated examples to structure and guide the player's or players' material throughout the piece, therefore also providing the overall shape. Beyond this, everything is improvised.

Get the app for free here and try out some of the sounds from the piece: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1206150318

'Colour Etude II' (2017) - Toy Piano(s) & Live Electronics

Welcome to my sound cloud page. 
I'm a composer / producer originating from Transylvania and based in London since 2007.
At the moment, I'm looking to develop a portfolio in music production and composition for film so I'm opened to any kind of collaborations. Get in touch! 

Also please check my pop side:
https://soundcloud.com/sorian-cornel

thx and best of luck to you all!!!

Catch 22

Cornel Sorian

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