Performed by Lara Agar (violin), Darius Paymai (harmonium), Christian Drew (guitar) and myself (keyboard, electronics & guitar) / October 2021 / London

Willow Hymn

O.A.I.R.

stepping on stones
sore feet
shoes, float away 

    Whitstable, July 2021


Written for the Britten Sinfonia Opus 1 Scheme 2021

With thanks to Marcus Barcham-Stevens (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), Oli Pashley (clarinet), Sarah Burnett (bassoon) & Rachel Wilkinson (Britten Sinfonia administration team), Dobrinka Tabakova and Joe Cutler (tutors)

shoes, float away

Huw Morgan performs 'ore' for piano at a special piano edition of his Mainly Slow Organ Music series on 12th March 2022 at St Stephen's Church, Bristol. 
I like how the sounds of people moving in the space, and outside, blend with the music in this recording

ore (Huw Morgan)

3 movement piece for solo guitar, written for 200th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Music, London. Performed by Jianhao Zhou

Two Lines & A Chord (2021/22)

May song (2022)
six voices and prerecorded audio
Performed by Exaudi, at Exposure 2023, Milton Court, 22 May 23

Cressida Sharp, sop.
Jessica Gillingwater, mez-sop.
Tom Williams, counterten.
David de Winter, ten.
Michael Hickman, bari.
Simon Whiteley, bass

James Weeks, cond.

Text by Goethe (1771), trans. Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon (in Jeschke, Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women, Materials, 2018 http://material-s.blogspot.com/2020/10/lisa-jeschke-anthology-of-poems-by.html.)

How beautiful shines 
To me, the nature! 
How the sun glows! 
How the mead smiles!

Blossoms penetrate 
From each branch 
And a thousand voices 
Out of the shrubbery

And joy, and joy 
From each breast. 
O earth, o sun,
O joy o lust!

O love, o love!
As golden, as beautiful 
As the morning clouds 
On those heights

You bless gloriously 
The fresh field
The blossoms’ steam 
The bountiful world.

O girl, girl
How I love you! 
Your eyes gaze! 
How you love me!

This is the way the lark loves 
Song and air
And morning flowers
The smell of heaven

How much I love you, 
My blood warmed
By you, for me, a youth, 
And joy and courage

For new songs
And dances
May you be happy eternally 
As long as you love me.

Prerecorded sounds include two field recordings of a wind turbine in Bernau bei Berlin, recorded by Peter Cusack, 2021.

Art: Unknown photographer, WT-Energiesystems Albertshof wind turbines, Bernau bei Berlin, c. 2020

Thanks to James Weeks and Exaudi, and to Paolo Carlotto and Nick Moroz for audio engineering assistance.

May song

All Life Long

Retrograde Canon

Premiered at Iklectik on 26.11.23 by:

Eliza Woodward - flute
Darius Paymai - melodica
Lara Agar - violin
Reuben Esterhuizen - electric guitar

thanks to unfinished collective (esp. Lara Agar and Sylvia Lim) and Paul Newland.

situation after Paul

The life is beautiful TANK Mix residency continues into week two, with jaso and Samara Langham providing dalliances with experimental soundscapes and club music.

Tracklist:
Samara Langham & Darius Paymai - "as if almost erasing"
jaso - "as if almost as if almost as if" (re-work)
Taz & Meeks - Obviously
jaso & abi asisa - hand technique theory 1
DJBBOY X MLBUCH - HIGH SPEED (OUTRO BLEND)
Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth - Spring Rounds
Cakedog - STR8BEAST
jaso - Ice Flavour
DJ Trouble - Bangs and Works
jaso - its a dance thats not about me
Loukeman - toes down
Micachu and The Shapes - Reaching
jaso, Samara Langham and NWAKKE - (?)
Loukeman - baby your a star (Snippet)
jaso - (?)
jaso & aloisius - jawn song
jaso, Samara Langham - ERASURE (MASSIVE ROOM MIX)
caroline - IWR
teebs - prayers i
Mica Levi, Oliver Coates - Mob of Waters
Still House Plants - Do

TANK x life is beautiful records: jaso & samara langham

Electronic noise music based on italian late medieval three voice ballad "Beaute Parfaite" by Antonello da Caserta (ca. 1355-1402), concretely inspired by recording of "Beaute Parfaite" by Mala Punica. 

Material of polyphonic layer was stolen from Antonello da Caserta and noise layer was stolen from radio waves. 

Form of the composition is based on mathematical proportions taken from Antonello's "Beaute Parfaite".

Beaute Parfaite. After Antonello da Caserta (noise version) (2015)

for ensemble and live electronic processing
workshop recording from Milton Court Concert Hall on 25.11.2020
played by Guildhall School musicians, conducted by Jack Sheen

arch and bend (2020)

Iranian-American composer/performer, London, UK — thinking about materiality, stasis, cycles, openness, economy of means — performing open/graphic/instructional scores, improvised drone — Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Laurence Crane, Paul Newland, and Paul Whitmarsh

arch and bend (2020)

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