Rebecca Lane, microtonal bass flute
Jon Heilbron, contrabass
Adam Asnan, recording
Samuel Dunscombe, mixing
excerpt from 2021 release on Another Timbre
http://www.anothertimbre.com/catlambmuto.html

Muto Infinitas (2016) Excerpt

During the summer of 2021, Delphine Dora was invited for a residency at the church of St Saphorin (Switzerland), on the occasion of the Jolie Vue Festival. Having the opportunity  to fully explore the organ the days before the actual festival, Delphine improvised a long, long series of tracks, of which you’ll find a small selection on ‘hymnes apophatiques’.
She’s definitely full of respect for the organ, at some moments diving deep in the sound traditionally associated with this rich instrument – the one you’ll recognize from the hours spent in church as a kid. However, at many moments throughout the album the sound is more playful than we’re used to. It’s a fearless approach. The fact that she dares to intervene with her voice quite often really makes her recordings stand out from those of many other artists who have been experimenting with a church organ lately: she definitely has a high regards for the tradition of the organ, but refuses to bow. She’s in charge, not the instrument itself. This way, Delphine manages to bend the sound completely her way. 
It’s an enthralling listen, that not only takes you along all the possibilities of the instrument, but also through Delphine’s entire musical path. And that’s quite a journey.

Hymnes Apophatiques****

S'extraire De L'abîme

Enregistré au GMEA Centre de création musicale d'Albi, mai 2022

https://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/a-stream-of-consciousness-ii-for-piano-solo

Gmea Rec-Musee-Saut-Du-Tarn-J3 2022-05-19

https://delphinedora.bandcamp.com/album/hymnes-apophatiques

hymnes apophatiques

ritournelle scolastique #1

The Longing

6“ Lathecut flexicard of one song by Delphine Dora

Fifth postcard of the series,
this singlesided flexi is playable on most turntables.

19 copies only
comes with one pretty little silver badge

https://mmli.bandcamp.com/album/dilatation

Delphine Dora - Dilatation

CD ITM Records, 1992

Terry Jenoure - Stimme, Geige
Sibylle Pomorin - Flöte, Altsaxophon
Herb Robertson - Trompete, Flügelhorn
Annie Whitehead - Posaune
Christy Doran - Gitarre 
Kim Clarke - E-Bass
Kamal Sabir - Schlagzeug, Perkussion

UA 1991, Berlin, Jazzfest

The Rebuilding of Detroit

Canticum Ostrava, Ostravska Banda-S.E.M. Ensemble
conducted by Joseph Trafton,
choir master Juri Galatenko
live from St. Wenceslas church 29th August 2017, Ostrava Days 2017

WINGS for voices and 4 string ensembles (Ostrava Days 2017)

Taking Steve Reich phasing and welding it to a solid kick and polyrhythmic percussion - the music then builds to a climax with a guttural bassline and tremelando strings.

patterns and accidents vol 1

bow on string

This track came about from a lyric in the song 'Me and Bobby McGee' about "windshield wipers slappin' time". That was the basis of the rhythm which was augmented with percussion tapped out on an acoustic guitar and loosely inspired by Steve Gadd's drumming on '50 ways to leave your lover.' The whole thing wasn't completely unoriginal - the piano and chordal background came from an unsuccessful attempt at another piece which was stretched and repurposed. The clarinet melody is an original length, which means the emphases in the melody fall in different places with each iteration. Finally the melody is processed to sound as if it is mediated by different technologies to reinforce the slight theme of nostalgia. These technologies move through time from AM radio to vinyl to data-compressed digital.

Komponent - Tell Me Something (Deadsea Remix)

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