St Mary le Bow, Cheapside, London, 19 October 2023

Premiere of Robin Holloway's major work, on the *day* of his 80th birthday, in a concert of elegies and memories. 

Recording by Rens Troost (with thanks - find and follow him at https://soundcloud.com/torpidscorpion !)

Guitar by Rohan Lowe (https://www.loweguitars.co.uk/)

The four pieces (3 programmed, plus an encore) are in separate tracks - to experience the event as it happened (with applause, talk, and dedication) the fifth track has the full end-to-end audio.

The Dayes Deep Midnight

Variazioni Sulla Fortuna (Studi Da John Dowland)

St Mary le Bow, Cheapside, London, 19 October 2023

Premiere of Robin Holloway's major work, on the *day* of his 80th birthday, in a concert of elegies and memories. 

Recording by Rens Troost (with thanks!)

Guitar by Rohan Lowe

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio K617a For Glass Armonica

Robin Holloway: The Daye's Deep Midnight Op 124a

Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Tombeau Sur La Mort De M Cajetan Baron D'Hartig

David Harvey: A Miniature Partita

Full audio of the recital, including applause, talk, and dedication.

SMLB 19 October 2023 - Full performance

Live recording of 2nd half of recital, 10 October 2015, Thomas Telford Centre, Menai Bridge. Guitar by Robert Cross.

Fernando Sor: Etude, Op.60 No.16

RECORDING
Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya
Salvador Brotons, conductor
WORK
Instrumentation:  2.2.2.2. - 2.0.0.0- perc., strings
Scores on rental: Max Eschig Réf. 2038



Manén: Divertimento Op. A - 32 for orchestra

Tribute to In a Silent Way, the Gerard Cousins' Project. Brecon Fringe Festival, 13viii2016

In A Silent Way - Brecon 2016

Lunchtime recital at St Mary le Bow, 6 October 2016

Gaspar Sanz - Preludio, o Capricho arpeado por la ✠

Hush! for flute and guitar
Duo Del Noce - Pieri
Filippo Del Noce, flauto - Edoardo Pieri, chitarra

Hush! for flute and guitar

Histoire du Tango IV

My first attempt at recording a quartet. It's from the Associated Board Music Medals series (gold), played on a Paul Fischer (2001). Mussorgsky couldn't have been further from my mind!!

The Empty Castle - Chris Susans - quartet

This is my 1st of 2 contributions to the Disquiet Junto 0473...a duet with moduS ponY's contribution 'New Unit' to disquiet0472. It is called 'Leaf Blower'

I recorded the sound of leaf blowers working in Kennington Park, South London, on a grey, covid-19 lockdown day, during my one rationed daily excursion. These leaf blowers appear twice, obviously, in the track but also inscrutably as the sampled waveform which provides the melodic/harmonic base. There is subtle modulation of the pitch, and filter throughout. Tools used include:

iPhone voice memos
Ableton live
Valhalla Delay and ValhallaVintageVerb
iZotope Mobius filter
Arturia Mini Filter
Roland keyboard controller

Torpid Scorpion

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More on this 473rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Placebo Effect (2 of 3) / The Assignment: Record the second third of a trio that others will complete — at:

https://disquiet.com/0473/ 1

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0473-placebo-effect/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Israel Avila, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/5bFGMU 1

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Leaf Blower

disquiet0473 Placebo Effect - Leaf Blower (Torpid Scorpion On ModuS PonY)

This is a submission for the Disquiet Junto 0474: Police Action

I built this track from the excellent collaboration of @daniel-diaz and @forcedamage from Junto 0473. Respect.

Fifths Damage (https://soundcloud.com/daniel-diaz/fifths-damage-21012021-disquiet0473) had a very strong western feel, and also a feeling of being balanced between sentiment and action. We are each trapped in a dynamic equilibrium that gets us through the day, but the ground is shifting and the system is out of balance. The Ostrich is one of the last remaining flightless birds; surely that is not our fate? Make a plan.

I added a rhythm track to what I received, starting with the output form the Logic Drummer in hip-hop mode and then editing the results until they locked to the groove that was there, choosing a nice acoustic kit emulation, and running the track through a Fatso EL7X. Other tools used included a coles 4038, an iphone, Phil Moore's excellent Retro PowerStrip, an A&H board, Valhalla plugins, and Ozone for a quick and dirty mastering pass.

The lyrics came from the feeling above, and from fighting off stockholm syndrome from all the decades since Reagan and Thatcher.

The samples are from the 'crying indian' public service announcement of the last century, and the extinction rebellion of this century.

- Torpid Scorpion


More on this 474th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Police Action (3 of 3) / The Assignment: Complete a trio by adding a track to an existing duet by two other musicians – at:

https://disquiet.com/0474/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0474-police-action/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by orangechallenger, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

https://flic.kr/p/cGSjx7 1

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

David Harvey: A Miniature Partita

David I H Harvey

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