From the live performance at SCP's "Icebreaker IV: The American Future", January 2008

Mason Bates - The Life of Birds

''The First Yaybahar Recording'' from 2010

This track is my contribution to a tribute radio show in honour of Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese, who passed away this January - and who was one of my biggest musical heros.

Several listeners who missed the show did ask for this track, so here it is.

There are no final plans yet, but perhaps it will be included later this year in a memorial V/A compilation, and maybe also on a  free album dedicated to Edgar...

P.S. Oh, and there was a little confusion about the title, but this one, "Everlasting Footprints - Radio Version" is the correct and final one...

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Everlasting Footprints - Radio Version

MIDDLEGROUND: the space grounded, the between, the center. The Heartland. The prairie, the grasslands, Konza, Flint Hills, Manhattan, Emporia, Salina. Where we gathered.

Home of the heart, heart of the home.

The years spent in cars, daydreaming, scooping handfuls of wheat, racing out into amber fields, cycling together, water wheel ice cream, fireworks and apples. The stories shared, books read sprawled in the yard, family prayers over anything, late evening walks, quiet nights. Open arms, open hearts, humble and extraordinary. 

Together, with our wonder, our joy, we created an incredible painting with abounding colors. The kinds of colors that linger in the minds eye long after they are out of sight and cradle you long after goodbyes are spoken and car doors closed. The kinds that find you counting the days until the next birthday, the next holiday, the next bike ride, the next Camp, the next anything just so you can see them again. When you close your eyes you feel their warmth. They stay.

The middle ground: my refuge born from the land living in my heart. Where my home is, living and breathing outside of my body, thousands of miles apart. This hallowed ground.




World premiere by the JACK Quartet in New York City, 2016.  

MIDDLEGROUND

For piano, four hands.
Performed by Cristina Lord and Alexander Lee.
Copyright 2016 by Cristina Lord.

Passages (for piano, four hands)

Sobriety - SZA
Morning sunrise - Weldon Irvine
Lights -  ScienZe (prod. Lord Quest)
Anita - smino
baby Im coming - Jhus
Forever - Pearls
Love 2 see you smile - Ivan Jackson
Ideal - englewood
Blackwoods and BMW´s - Matt Burton
Celibate - Anderson Paak (prod. Duke Westlake)

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GEOFFREY - Duality

In reading Collins' Handmade Electronic Music, I learned that a telephone pickup  device converts electromagnetic signals of a machine into audible sound. The microphone acts like a stethoscope for electronic devices since the user can listen and analyze different parts of a complex entity, such as computer, without visual cues. In this piece, the performer examines the internal organs of a laptop using such microphone and digitally processes the sound in real-time.

There is also a video version: http://youtu.be/x4jIJyJt3YI

Nocturne - for electromagnetic microphones

Live recording of an Improvisation at the 2015 DogStar Orchestra Festival in Los Angeles

Passages (for piano, four hands)

Cristina Lord

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