The World's most accomplished Sho player Mayumi Miyata plays with soloists from London  Sinfonietta at Kings Place on Thursday 3 March as part of Hibiki: Resonances from Japan http://bit.ly/hB4OcP

Mayumi Miyata - Utsurohi - Toshio Hosokawa

Meditation Music_Shorter version_Mockup

Binaural Environment

Zosia Jagodzinska- Cello
Sophie Cameron- Violin
Mixed and Mastered by Rupert Gillett @ the Cabin
Composed by Sophie Cameron

The Mesmerist

3/28/2020 - I am sharing a musical oddity born out of “Shelter-at-Home” and the urgent need to create. This is the first “dan” of the Japanese koto classic “Rokudan” recorded on seven differently pitched shakuhachi. You are hearing one single melody that I overdubbed with instruments tuned to E, Eb, D, Db, C, B, and A. If I had more flutes in different keys I would have included those to add to the general cacophony.  So here goes – listen up – and if you make it to the end, please let me know.
 
Why did I really do this?
 
New York City is in the midst of a Covid-19 crisis. Our hospitals and health care workers are struggling to keep people alive under horrific circumstances. There is a massive shortage of hospital gear and health care workers, who are terribly at risk, need everything - masks, gloves, sanitizer, gowns, etc. If you enjoyed my musical curiosity, or if you hated it, either way please consider a donation of $10 or more directly to this “gofundme” project. https://www.gofundme.com/f/x43rkz-critical-protective-gear-for-healthcare-workers
 
Thank you, James

Rokudan!!!

five images
for Ensemble Dal Niente
World Premiere, 7.11.2020, DePaul University

i. 0:00
ii. 1:15
iii. 2:38
iv. 3:38
v. 7:57

Ensemble Dal Niente
Katie Schoepflin Jimoh - clarinets
Ben Melsky - harp
Kyle Flens - percussion
Theo Ramsey - violin, viola
Hannah A Barnes - conductor

five images (2020) is a set of compact canonic miniatures. Double, crab, prolation, and inversion canons are employed across the work to create a large-scale arch form that engages the quartet in a variety of different ways. While the canons are rigorous in their execution, they are not all intended to be heard as such, with variance in the timbre, register, and temporality of the material affecting the perceptibility and autonomy of the canonic voices. The odd-numbered movements (i, iii, v) use the full ensemble, with iii acting as the axis and breaking point in the large-scale structure. Movements ii and iv, both crab canons, employ duos different than those used in the double canons of the outer movements, and occupy a noisier and more distant landscape. Each pair of movement across this axis (v with i, and iv with ii) are created as derivations from their counterparts, as if an image is reflected through a broken mirror to create a simulacrum of its pair. However, it is impossible to determine which way the axis imposes its changes, and thus which image is the original and which is the reflection.
This work was created as a canonic sketchbook for my large ensemble work, Triskelion, for DePaul University’s Ensemble 20+, and directly confronts the issues presented by working both with miniature forms and composing with canons in the hopes of using an old technique to make something new.
five images was composed for Ensemble Dal Niente and premiered to an empty hall on July 11, 2020.
— HAB

five images (2020, world premiere)

Creative Traditional Orchestra, National Gugak Center of Korea, conducted by Chung Chi-Yong. Pacific Rim Music Festival 2017 University of California, Santa Cruz

Dreams of the Traveller (2016-17)

Performed by the Departure Duo: Nina Guo (soprano) Eddie Kass (Double Bass)live at the Scholes Street Studio

"Evil's Peak" is a 4-movement song cycle for soprano and double bass, in the language of Jamaican Patois.

The piece takes inspiration from a 13th century frieze that graced the walls of the St. Mary's Church in Lübeck, Gemany in 1463 before it was destroyed in WWII; The Dance of Death in which 24 figures symbolizing people from all statuses and ranks of life (from the Pope to the baby) are led into a dance by emaciated corpses draped in a shroud and playing the flute; a pronouncement that death is no respecter of persons and this is the one dance we all must dance.

In this narrative, death is a woman. Unlike the texts in the frieze where there is dialogue between death and the figures in question, death here, pronounces judgement without defense. Primarily, these judgments stem from the composer's personal experiences living in Jamaica in which the figures (specifically those representing the church and the state) have been engaging in various forms of injustice toward humanity and consequently deserving of death. Although death in the beginning seems to be doing good serving justice to those who have been wronged, it eventually becomes a heart breaking cycle as nature begins to override choice; taking the innocent with it.

Evil's Peak (excerpt) Movements III-IV

Composed by James Nyoraku Schlefer. Masayo Ishigure on koto, the composer on shakuhachi.

Duo - Schlefer

Duo No. 1

Recorded by Ginevra Petrucci

Score video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxetIxmFzM

Full album available for purchase here: https://flautodamoreproject.bandcamp.com/album/creativity-quarantine

Score available for purchase here: https://www.flautodamore.com/store/creativity-quarantine-solo-flute-collection

Creativity Quarantine

"Toccata Sunrise" for flauto d'amore

PhD candidate affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Composition and East Asian instruments. Currently based in Honolulu.

https://dalenwuest.com/
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"Toccata Sunrise" for flauto d'amore

DalenWuest

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