Performed by Empyrean Ensemble on 4/30/21

Peter Josheff - Clarinet
Ellen Ruth Rose - Viola
Michael Seth Orland - Piano

Safe Space

Featuring PACIFIC STRINGS - 16 Violins Legato (alpha stage), demonstrating lower dynamics. Balancing still in the rough stages. Some external verb. Far/AB mics only.

Pacific - Strings - Violin Legatos, lower dyns demonstration (far/AB only - alpha version)

Note: all strings are Pacific Strings, minus Vista full strings sus for low strings sustains throughout the slow section (from the beginning to ~0:22) and after ~1:22 as well.

Master updated 17-Aug-21.

Pacific - Strings - Polar - By Michał Cielecki

Pacific Woodwinds - a2 Clarinets Legato Alpha Test (softer dyn here)

Live recording of the premiere
May 17th, 2022
Turin, Italy
Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino
Jay Schwartz, conductor

CREDO - MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA VII (2022)

John McGovern, vibraphone

Score video: https://youtu.be/ObafUDqqFeU

More information: https://seanklink.wixsite.com/music/embracing-decay

Embracing Decay (2022) for solo vibraphone

Performed by the Tesla Quartet at the University of Maryland, College Park on May 8th, 2023.

Score follow video: https://youtu.be/oCIoD1qDxf0 

https://seanklink.wixsite.com/music/works

Tesla Quartet
Michelle Lie, violin I
Ross Snyder, violin II
Edwin Kaplan, viola
Austin Fisher, cello

On the Backs of Your Eyelids (2022) for string quartet

Between Scene 2 (The Citizen Scientists) and Scene 3 (The Developers), a Sonic Path is activated on the Newtown Creek site. Audiences follow the sound along a winding path as it leads them to the location where the Scene 3 film will be shown on the side of a dilapidated building wall. This pre-recorded track includes field recordings made by artist Marie Lorenz as she documented her travels along the the Newtown Creek between 2021 and 2023.

from "Newtown Odyssey" - Sonic Path 1

MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA II (2010)

PASSACAGLIA – MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA IX (2024)

Performed by Spektral Quartet. 
Taproot New Music Festival, 31 January 2020. 

—NOTE: This work is best viewed with its accompanying video. A link to that, and also a perusal score, can be found here:
http://danielgodsil.com/de-rerum-natura

PROGRAM NOTE:  “But it always happens that we hear the sound of the thunder some time after we perceive it lighten, because objects, which affect the hearing, always come more slowly to the ears, than those, which affect the sight, arrive at the eye. This you may easily understand from the following instance. If you observe a man at a distance cutting down the trunk of a tree with an axe, you will see the stroke itself before the noise of the stroke makes any sound in the air.”   Lucretius, De Rerum Natura e. vi. 160-184 (translation by John Selby Watson)    

The video for this work is an assemblage of public domain science and art film clips. The music is designed to react to onscreen events, but almost always after these events have occurred. No click track is used, so the interaction is deliberately intended to be volatile and change from performance to performance. I loosely used dactylic hexameter (the poetic meter of Lucretius’ epic De Rerum Natura) as a guide for timing the video editing and, therefore, the accompanying music. —D.G.

de rerum natura I "el leñador" (2019) for amplified string quartet + video

Daniel Godsil's music, which has been described by the San Francisco Classical Voice as having an “intense dramatic narrative,” draws from such eclectic influences as science fiction, thrash metal, and Brutalist architecture. His more recent work draws inspiration from the natural beauty of Northern California, his current home.

Winner of the 2019 League of Composers/ISCM Steven R. Gerber prize (for Cosmographia) and the 2017 Earplay Donald Aird Composition Competition (for his quartet Aeropittura), Godsil's music has been played by Ensemble Dal Niente, Spektral Quartet, Talujon Percussion, Daedalus Quartet, Lydian String Quartet, Empyrean Ensemble, Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, University Symphony Orchestra at California State University Fullerton, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, and the Nova Singers, among many others. Recent film scores include the PBS documentary Boxcar People, Man Ray’s 1926 silent film Emak-Bakia and the feature film H.G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon. Godsil was a finalist in the 2018 Lake George Music Festival chamber composition competition, as well as the 2014 and 2019 Red Note New Music Festival Composition Competitions. His choral works are published by Alliance Music Publishing and NoteNova Publishing.

Born and raised in central Illinois, Godsil (b.1982) is currently pursuing his PhD. in Composition and Theory at the University of California, Davis, studying with Mika Pelo, Laurie San Martin, and Sam Nichols. He holds an MFA in Music Composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where he studied with John Fitz Rogers, John Mallia, and Jonathan Bailey Holland. He also holds a BM in Music Composition from Webster University.

Godsil was selected to participate in the 2017 Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) in Boston, where he had master classes with composers Nicholas Vines and Georg Friedrich Haas.

de rerum natura I "el leñador" (2019) for amplified string quartet + video

Daniel Godsil

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