Viola da Gamba

Surfaces for string quartet and electronics
All parts played my myself.

Surfaces for string quartet and electronics (excerpt only)

Incantation for tenor viola da gamba and electronics

Viola da gamba: Steuart Pincombe
Performed LIVE in Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin Conservatory 2010.

NOTE: I apologise for the incessant camera clicking...the reporter there was a bit too enthusiastic the entire time but this movement has less of it... 

Sonata V In E Minor For Viola Da Gamba, Mvt. 1

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Folia - Baroque Violin, Viola Da Gamba & Harpsichord

Axis Mundi (2015) for winds, zithers, strings, and percussion
I. Underworld
II. Earth
II.Heaven

Axis Mundi - Underworld (Excerpt 2)

Title Music for the ten-part radio fiction "Pedro Paramo" on Radio France! Starting June 2012

Francoise Daudin-Clavaud, Flute
Arnaud Dumond, Guitar
Florent Jodelet, Percussion
Sebastien Surel, Violin
Philippe Foulon, Viola da Gamba

Bolero - for Flute, Guitar, Perc.,Violin and Viola da Gamba

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Axis Mundi - Heaven (Excerpt 1)

Axis Mundi - Heaven (Excerpt 2)

Live recording of the premiere of Ave Maria, recorded at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at York Minster, 22/12/2016. York Minster choir appear by kind permission of the Chapter of York. Recording engineer: Ben Eyes

Ave Maria

Recorded live at the Park Church Co-op, January 8th, 2017, with Lykos:
Kristin Leitterman, oboe/English horn (http://www.kristinleitterman.com/)
Mara Mayer, clarinet/bass clarinet (http://maramayermusic.com/)
Marilu Donovan, harp (http://www.mariludonovan.com/)
Maya Bennardo, violin (http://andplayduo.com/about/)

The causes of separation. The manners in which we fell. The directions we each took afterward. The Ways We Each Tumbled From The Precipice explores the concept of coming together versus moving apart. The instruments generally revolve around a central pitch point, sometimes reaching it and sometimes moving away from it, or reaching it, but not simultaneously. Rhythmically, the instruments sometimes progress through sections of phasing, beginning together, moving away from each other, and reuniting at a later point. The way the instruments interact also changes, with the ensemble often working in unity, then breaking into pairings that eventually dissolve and shift. The microtones (pitches closer to each other than found in the Western chromatic scale) can be initially somewhat jarring, but after one becomes accustomed to them, can be quite beguiling.

Full score:
http://hwarg.com/content/score/h_kenty-the_ways_we_each_tumbled_from_the_precipice_full_score.pdf

Many thanks go to Nathan, Jasno, and Nick at the Park Church Co-op for their help in organizing and engineering the concert (http://www.parkchurchcoop.org/).

Lykos photo by Christina Vantzou (http://www.christinavantzou.com/).

The Ways We Each Tumbled From The Precipice (Live, with Lykos)

Et s'échoue encore la profondeur qui revient.
Ces vagues qui se ressemblent, jusqu'aux sons qui s'érodent, là, à la juste cassure du sable qui bruisse, à la frontière qui s'arrache du sol. Immuables. Et se noie toujours l'écume qui repart.

Live Recording, March 31st 2016, CNSMDP. Castalian Quartet.
www.castalianstringquartet.com

Littoral - excerpt - for string quartet (2016)

20170112 Clementi Impromptu

COUNTERPOINT on the original harp solo Just Passing By 

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viola da gamba/harp

Rehearsal for the premiere in March, 2013 at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam. Ere Lievonen, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba.

The introductory fanfare uses a 9-note scale (3+4+3+4+3+4+3+4+3=31 steps) in the so called Orwell temperament. The toccata is in extended meantone, making much use of septimal and neutral intervals, 1/5-tones, as well as commas that 31EDO tempers out, such as 176/175.

The viola da gamba is tuned as follows: The 7 strings are tuned to the standard A1-D-G-c-e-a-d1 (with meantone fourths). The seven frets are placed so that the pitches on the A strings are as follows: (A) Bb B C C# Cx D# E (= 3-2-3-2-2-3-3 steps of 31), enabling 21 pitches out of 31.

Incantation for tenor viola da gamba and electronics

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