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Un cuore in inverno 
Composed and orchestrated by Franco Forconi
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Un Cuore In Inverno

A song by my sister and i about our childhood:

Our house, our home was just a shell
where life became a living hell
where the child just smiled, but couldn’t feel
Because of the scars too deep to heal
And at night – we took turns dying
Just covered up the blackened eye
and told the world another lie
for what happened to us, you couldn't conceive
Truth be told you wouldn't believe
I’m running, I’m running, down the street
in my freezing bare feet
I know I’ll have to go back and get beat

we took turns dying

I’m praying, I’m praying, that lightning won’t strike
That I won’t be dead before morning light
Knowing that there will be no peace this night
We took turns dying

Your hands were supposed to embrace me
hold me and make me feel loved and free
But you beat me until I was begging on the floor
Wondering what I was apologizing for 
And at night – we took turns dying
Behind this tear soaked teddy bear
there shone a childish hope
that you declare your love one day
those three magic words you never did say 
And at night – we took turns dying

I lie now; I lie, by my teddy bear and cry
that she is impossible to satisfy.
I wish I would die – NO WAIT! - I wish I could fly
we took turns dying.
Daddy will make it, daddy will see
lets run away and be happy us three
now we've escaped and we’re kinda free
But Still – we take turns dying


We Took Turns Dying  (song)

This piece is for string and Woodwind, and made using mostly Spitfire Woodwinds and CSS.  I think of it as a rhapsody for orchestra with a slightly eastern ring to it,  and it ends accelerando in the manner of a gallop

Weary Thoughts

I Sogni Non Si Possono Distruggere
Dreams cannot be destroyed
Music composed and orchestrated by Franco Forconi
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Sole è una bambina come tante se non fosse per la presenza nella sua vita di un mostro, MitoKondr, che quando meno se l'aspetta la tormenta. Sole sogna di poter giocare con gli altri bimbi, ma quando MitoKondr si manifesta il sogno si infrange e per lei si aprono le porte dell’ospedale. Ma ecco l’inaspettato: la carezza di una fata fa sparire il dolore e fa tornare i sogni, più reali che mai. Ora Sole è felice perché ha la certezza che nessuno, nemmeno MitoKondr, potrà distruggere i suoi sogni.

Sole is just an ordinary child if it weren't for the presence in her life of a monster, MitoKondr, who torments her when she least expects it. Sole dreams of being able to play with the other children, but when MitoKondr shows up, the dream is shattered and the doors of the hospital open for her. But here's the unexpected: a fairy's caress makes the pain disappear and dreams come back, more real than ever. Now Sole is happy because she is sure that nobody, not even MitoKondr, will be able to destroy her dreams.

I Sogni Non Si Possono Distruggere

https://illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/drama-studies

02 Resolutions

01 Starships

https://illuminatedpaths.bandcamp.com/album/drama-studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x9cu_Ra7f0

03 The Adventure

From Perfect Nowhere // Nicholas DeMaison // 2015

Taken from Kirk the Flirt & Peter Pressure "Physical Therapy Presents... Kirk the Flirt & Peter Pressure", out on cassette and digitally 23 October 2015.

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William has been an intriguing presence in Sydney’s music scene for over ten years, performing and releasing under several monikers including most recently, T.Morimoto. As a producer and teacher he has inspired the work of artists such as Seekae, Cliques and Cassius Select. His EP Annum Contra is a diverse collection of percussive approaches and rhythmic studies that sees William moving in a dance floor friendly direction – whilst maintaining the idiosyncratic style he is known for.

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Thomas WIlliam - Sleepwalk

Recorded in the Columbia Studios on November 6th, 2015

Crescita Plastica // Ashkan Behzadi // 2015

Cantus Fractibilis // Peter Kramer // 2014

Performed at Roulette on the String Theories Festival on March 22nd, 2016

Den Intimitet Som Finns I Smultron // Kristofer Svensson // 2016

Apocrypha - for violin, viola, and electronic sounds, composed by David Bird, performed by andPlay (Hannah Levinson and Maya Bennardo), February 25, 2017, at the Dimenna Center for Classical Music, NY 

"Apocrypha" is written for violin, viola, and electronics, and is loosely inspired by Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel "Solaris". Lem's work follows a team of scientists stationed on a distant planet covered by a vast and gelatinous ocean. In the novel, the ocean demonstrates a bizarre ability to manipulate the emotions and memories of the scientists. "Apocrypha", exploits a similar process, where the enveloping presence of the electronic sounds prompt turmoil and sensation within the duo's intimate performance. “Apocrypha" was written for andPlay (Hannah Levinson and Maya Bennardo), and was developed in the summer of 2016 at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute.

“In the budding, growth, and spread of this living formation, in each of its movements separately and in all taken together, there was something one was tempted to call a cautious yet not timid naivety, as it strove frantically and rapidly to know, to take in, an unexpectedly encountered new shape. Then, in mid-journey, it had to withdraw when it was in danger of transgressing certain boundaries established by a mysterious law. This agile inquisitiveness was so utterly at odds with the immensity that stretched to every bright horizon. I had never before been so aware of its vast presence, its powerful, inexorable silence breathing evenly through its waves. Staring in wonderment, I was descending to regions of inertia that might have seemed inaccessible, and in the gathering intensity of engrossment I was becoming one with this fluid unseeing colossus, as if—without the slightest effort, without words, without a single thought—I was forgiving it for everything.”

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Apocrypha - for Violin, Viola, and Electronic Sounds

La Lunga Strada

The Force

Martin Track 1.01

Sospesi

INFERNO
for Choir, Orchestra, and Solo Performer

Gulbenkian Choir & Orchestra
conductor. Nuno Coelho
soloist. Andre Hencleeday

music. Nuno da Rocha
text. Clément Bondu

commissioned by OSESP - Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo & Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
premiere. 24th January 2020

audio & video. Gulbenkian Música | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

INFERNO - for Choir, Orchestra, and Solo Performer

Orchestral score made in Cakewalk by Bandlab

Apocrypha - for Violin, Viola, and Electronic Sounds

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