Ghost Tones is a solo composition for solo double bell trumpet that delves deep into the subtle intricacies of this instrument. It showcases the delicate microsounds produced by the trumpet, elevating them to the forefront. These microsounds unveil the elusive "ghost tones," which include nearly inaudible airy notes, instrument feedback, the mechanics of the instrument, and the nuances of physical manipulation. The piece is a compelling exploration of how these hidden sonic dimensions can manifest, bringing the elusive ghost within the techniques to the forefront.

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"Complaints" (2014) as recorded by the CalArts String Orchestra.

Complaints

Improvisation sketch using an electronics patch I created in Ableton. Enjoy! 
Ethan Marks -- Trumpet and Electronics 

Space Voices

Luciano Berio, Kol Od, Marco Blaauw, Trumpet Live Rec

Trumpet solo, 5th hour of the cycle KLANG, premiered in August 2008, BBC, Royal Albert Hall, London

Karlheinz Stockhausen, HARMONIEN

New track from forthcoming collaborative album by Deerhoof and Dal Niente.  Pre-order and read more here:  https://dalnientedeerhoof.bandcamp.com/

Coming April 29, 2016 on New Amsterdam Records.

Movement 6 from meltDown Upshot, composed by Marcos Balter.

Press inquiries:  jill@newamrecords.com

New Amsterdam Records is excited to announce the new collaborative album from Deerhoof ("the best band in the world” - Pitchfork) and Chicago-based 22-piece contemporary music group Dal Niente (“a model of what contemporary music needs" - The Chicago Tribune), Balter / Saunier, which will be released on April 29. The album features works by Brazilian-born composer Marcos Balter and arrangements by Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier of his band’s songs. The album will be celebrated at ensemble Dal Niente’s 10th Anniversary Party in Chicago on April 30 at Dal Niente's Studio & 3rd Floor Commons at 4045 N Rockwell, which will include the Chicago premiere of Saunier’s piece on the album, “Deerhoof Chamber Variations.” 

Deerhoof and Dal Niente first crossed paths in 2012 when they shared a bill at Chicago’s Millennium Park. The two groups bonded instantly over their shared sensibilities and began a long-term collaboration, performing together when possible and inspiring each other along the way. Balter / Saunier is a culmination of these explorations, an intricate intermingling of styles that captures each group at its most adventurous and encapsulates what it means to create, perform and listen to music in 2016. 

Despite the scope and scale of the collaboration (with more than 30 people involved), the recording process was a remarkably DIY effort. Balter / Saunier is self-produced, mixed and edited; composers session-produced their pieces; and engineer Dan Nichols cleverly turned a busy downtown ballroom into a treated recording environment. Everyone spent a lot of time listening – to the music and each other – and it shows: the final product is the very definition of a meeting of the minds, a perfect distillation of several (highly developed) artistic voices. 

Balter / Saunier consists of two longer works, one each by Balter and Saunier, with one shorter piece by Balter between the two. The album opens with Balter’s seven-part piece “meltDown Upshot”, a magnetic mix of heady beats, catchy pop, absorbing postminimalism, angular melodies and fireworks of free jazz written specifically for the two groups’ collaboration. Next is “Pois que nada que dure, ou que durando,” a poem by Fernando Pessoa that translates to "For that nothing lasts, or that lasting” in English, a dissonance-tinged work that plays like a sonic realization of Dalí’s “Persistence of Memory.” The album closes with Saunier's “Deerhoof Chamber Variations”, a work for Dal Niente that uses Deerhoof's catalogue as source material. Rather than simply re-arranging Deerhoof songs by rote, Saunier flexes his compositional background to create a meditation on the group’s discography. Familiar melodies – set amongst grand, expansive arrangements – drift in and out of view as if from a refracted memory.

Dal Niente & Deerhoof - meltDown Upshot: 6. Cherubim (Marcos Balter)

Untitled (demo)

Philippe Béland - BackToThe E

Antichamber

Yannis Kyriakides, Dog Song (Cerberus Serenades Orpheus)

Polish premier, 28 Sptember 2019, at the Filharmonia Narodowa during the Warsaw Autumn Festival.
Performed by NOSPR, Ryan Bancroft conductor, Marco Blaauw double bell trumpet

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