don't look under your bed

love sucks

Ensemble Schallfeld

Elisa Azzarà, bass flute
Johannes Feuchter, bass clarinet
Myriam García Fidalgo, cello
Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, double bass

Davide Gagliardi, audio engineer

impuls Festival 2021
Graz, Austria
August 20, 2021

in praise of shadows [2020] – Ensemble Schallfeld

Commissioned and performed by Martin Carpentier (clarinet) and Joseph Petric (accordion)
Martin Carpentier（クラリネット）とJoseph Petric（アコーディオン）による委嘱・初演で演奏されました

Programme Note
‘Fox’ is used as a verb in some dialects in England to indicate the reddening of wood as it rots, and in other dialects ‘fox-fire’ refers to the phosphorescent light emitted by decaying wood. In both cases, something magical, tricksy, and beautiful in the idea of deterioration and dying is being expressed. This very quiet piece presents four layers of clearly differentiated material, each of which is intermittently flaring up and fading away in its own time.

プログラム・ノート
「Fox」(狐)という単語は、英国の一方言で、木の心材が腐って赤らんで いるという意味の動詞として使う。また他の方言で「fox-fire」(狐火)とい えば朽木に生じた菌類が発する燐光のことである。いずれの表現にも、何か 神秘的で手が込んでいて、美しく移ろうという含意があるようだ。極めて静 かな本曲は明確に区別された素材が4層示されている。各層は自立的に現れ、 そして消える。

fox-red 狐紅 (2019)

stacy's brother

Bushukan (仏手柑)
for Tendai-Shōmyō (声明) singer and string trio.
This work is dedicated to my dear teacher Kaija Saariaho.
Premiere: Suehiro Shoei and Ensemble Falke,
Tennō-ji (天王寺), Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2022.

Bushukan

blank no.2.5

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

サンゴ骨格7 20 2023 - 2

coral voice
Mamoru Fujieda (composer)

Coral skeletons, which are composed of calcium carbonate, have various internal structures depending on the type of coral. Furthermore, because various environmental characteristics and changes in the ocean affect the growth process of coral skeletons, coral skeletons are said to record vast amounts of past environments.
At the Kikaijima Coral Reef Science Research Institute, the microscopic spaces, density, and crystal structure inside coral skeletons are observed and analyzed, and we are also exploring new ways to elucidate coral skeletons from the aspect of acoustics. Mamoru Fujieda, who works in the field of biological sound art, proposed a method of submerging coral skeletons in water and recording the bubbles emitted from inside the skeletons using an underwater microphone (hydrophone). One end may be revealed as acoustics.
Although it is still in the prototype stage, the work called "Voice of Coral", which is an acoustic version of coral skeletons, was created at the Coral Reef Science Research Institute in July of this year, using sound sources recorded underwater such as the skeletons of Porites corals from 5,000 years ago. I am. From the acoustics of coral skeletons like this, we can hear a pattern that has periodicity and changes subtly. In the future, we will elucidate the relationship between this periodic acoustic pattern and the internal structure, density, and composition of the coral skeleton.

Coral Voice

Enchanted Foundations (2021) for solo Clarinet in Bb (excerpt)
Composed by Daniela Costa
performed by Janet Hilton (clarinet)
USA première, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, June 1, 2024, live recording
© SIAE. All rights reserved to the author.

Enchanted Foundations (2021) for solo Clarinet in Bb (excerpt)

Japan-based Canadian composer, working with both western and Japanese instruments. 
ヨーク大卒。文科省奨学生として来日、東京藝大の近藤譲氏に学ぶ。洋/和楽器を用いた作品がボッジーニ弦楽四重奏団や井上郷子らによって演奏されている。「工房•寂」の設立者兼、招聘作曲家。

fox-red 狐紅 (2019)

Daryl Jamieson

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