Short permutational piece, written in 2021 while sitting on Greenland Pier in Surrey Quays, London.

Bassoon: Daria Phillips
Piano: Matt Geer

Greenland (bassoon and piano, 2021)

Steve Layton (@niwosound) - The Composer Plays Revisited (CD):
https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/the-composer-plays-revisited

More about: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2021-09-10-224

Steve Layton - The Composer Plays Revisited (CD)

This is a continuation of the previous one, The challenge of creating "Digital Harsh"!

Thank you for listening!! :-)

Made by Max8

20210917

A world with no religions
How would it be
Without condemnation
Would we feel free
And we don´t know
It ain´t easy to try

A world with no religions
How would it be
Would it feel like emptiness
With nothing to believe in
But we don´t know
Unless we don´t try

A world with no religions
How would it be
Without the written words
That someones hold on to
We don´t know
If they are true

A world with no religions
How would it be
We know it is younger
Younger than us humans
But we let ourselves
Be controlled

A World With No Religions

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXipZwptwb0

Nine miniatures evoking different moods.

Composed December 2020

Isobel Doncaster - Viola
Yucong Huang - Piano

Bandcamp

'Nine Haiku' for viola and piano (2020)

This work for cello is derived from ideas associated with change ringing.

If one has, say, 6 bells, and one wishes to ring them in some sequence, then one has 720 possible sequences ("rows") to choose from.    Performing all the possible "rows" in some sequence constitutes an "extent" or "full peal."  A traditional desire consists of have every two consecutive "rows"  (or "change") in an "extent" differ only by swapping order of two consecutive bells.   So give any particular starting "row" of 6 bells, only 5 "rows" can legally complete the "change." 

That "extents," legal in this sense, even exist follows from non-trivial mathematical constructions, but these constructed extents tend to have a very mechanical character (and advantage for "method ringers").  

I (re?)discovered that one can make new extents from old by exchanging two consecutive segments AND time-reversing just one of them.  Call this a "twist."  "Twisting" one of the mechanical extents 2000 times (for an extent of 720 "rows") seems to produce reasonably random or organic "extents."   Philosophically these "twisted extents" lead double lives, being both highly structured and constrained, but given that, also as capricious as possible.

Four random "extents" govern this work.  Most simply, one "extent" controls the 6 dynamic levels in each row statement, one "extent" controls the 6 durations, and one "extent" controls the sequence within whatever the current collection of pitches.  

The final "extent" gets used go generate the pitch content.  Instead of ordering events, the permutations get used to order  the intervals 2/1, 3/2, 4/3,  5/4, 6/5 and 7/6, thus building up a scale (or perhaps a chord, depending on how you care to think about it).  So unlike actual bells that each carry a fixed pitch and collectively establish a fixed key, here each "row" of the 720 has its own "key."  Thus the music constantly modulates, and since each "change" modestly changes just one note in the scale (because consecutive intervals swap), the music manifests an emergent sort of voice leading, albeit a very distant relative from the voice leading of common practice music.

Simultaneously Follow Four Twisted Paths, for cello

103021001 Ambient

This started out as an acoustic piece in the vein of Salif Keita. It didn't work out and slowly disintegrated into this.

loop 100001

muryou

Marco Lucchi : Buchla synthesizer and tape

reworking "Winter Landscape 03" by M.Nomized
https://mnomized-fusions.bandcamp.com/album/m-nomized-winter-remixed-2021

21 dicembre 2021

M.NOMIZED - Winter Landscape (Marco Lucchi Eskimo remix)

Sensen : Senmove & Senglar
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Simultaneously Follow Four Twisted Paths, for cello

David Victor Feldman