Composed by David Werfelmann for Slipstream.

Joe Connor-Alto Saxophone
Ilan Blanck-Electric Guitar
Matt Blair-Piano
Dan Reifsteck-Marimba

Light And Shade (Werfelmann)

For A Graceful Teardrop (pt.II)

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

MOVEMENTS
I.	De Harmonia
II.	Totam harmonices
III.	Restat Lux
IV.	Uranie
V.	Harmonices Mundi

PROGRAM NOTE
	In the early 17th century, German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler wrote Harmonices Mundi, a treatise describing a vast cosmic harmony expressed in the motions of the planets. His discoveries, especially those pertaining to planetary motion, would have a profound impact on Enlightenment-era scientists such as Isaac Newton, giving us a deeper understanding of the cosmos. It is his beautiful metaphor of celestial harmony, however, that inspires this work.
	The fragments of Kepler's writings chosen for this set of motets distill his profound reverence for the beauty and elegance of the solar system. De Harmonia, the very first words of the treatise, introduces the work. Totam harmonices provides the thesis. The third motet, Restat lux, is a meditation on a simple truth: amidst the cosmic polyphony light remains. Uranie, the astronomer's muse, inspires the reverent and joyful fourth motet. The work concludes with a setting of the title, exploring the harmony of the world through expansive nebulae of sound.

Harmonices Mundi - II Totam Harmonices

The Undreaming (2019)
Michael Mizrahi, piano

I. Undreaming
II. Celestial Clockwork
III. Infinite Aftertime

The Undreaming

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Harmonices Mundi - II Totam Harmonices

David Werfelmann Composer

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