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"The Days Long" from Duane Pitre's new solo album "Omniscient Voices" - Out Nov 19th, 2021 on IMPREC.

Pre-order available via Imprec.com

Duane Pitre returns to Imprec with Omniscient Voices, an articulate, intense and emotionally resonant set of five pieces for justly tuned piano and electronics.

Omniscient Voices is a uniquely distinct work that follows Pitre's trilogy of releases which culminated with 2015’s Bayou Electric and included the critically acclaimed Feel Free (2012) and Bridges (2013) albums. Where those albums were rooted in long form pieces, Omniscient Voices is a collection of shorter pieces, offering more harmonic variety than previous works, with a unique sound and feel that is still unmistakably the work of Duane Pitre.

In 2019, after a five year period where Pitre did not focus on outward facing music, but instead on his own personal practice, a small idea in the form of a question came to him: would the combination of his latest computer- and electronic-based experiments, used in conjunction with justly tuned piano, produce interesting results; simply put, would it “work”? Concurrently, Pitre was studying a handful of Morton Feldman scores for their focus on tonal clusters, reading a book on Arvo Pärt’s life and work, and contemplating the pulse-based rhythms of Steve Reich and Phillip Glass.

In 2020, with no intention of making a new album, the composer tried to answer this question. The results would spawn five pieces that would become Omniscient Voices. On this new work, Pitre finds himself giving equal priority to both piano and electronics, utilizing his Max/MSP-based generative network to real-time convert precomposed piano motifs, into data, which is then used to communicate with two polyphonic, microtonal hardware synthesizers whose patches Pitre authored; this process generates the electronic component of the album. Pitre also utilizes controlled improvisation to interact with the piano-reactive electronics in a spontaneous and inspired manner, going back and forth between these two pianistic approaches. In all, this approach creates a “musical feedback loop” of sorts.

Despite Omniscient Voices being the culmination of 15 years of hard work and inspiration, this beautiful album somehow materialized in a natural, intuitive and effortless way (like any artist's best work.)

Mastered and cut by Golden and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity.

Artist's statement:
“When making the pieces that would become Omniscient Voices, I often viewed the piano as human action, a single note becoming a single gesture that has the potential to change the electronic environment, the electronics becoming the environment surrounding that human in the natural world, who then has the power to change their actions based on their surroundings. All actions have consequences. The interconnectedness of everything. Single actions making waves of change.”

RIYL: Arvo Pärt, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass

Duane Pitre - The Days Long - from Omniscient Voices - Pre-Order Available

This mix from Hungarian musician Gosheven explores the polyphonic music of the ‘Are’are people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands.

“Since I dedicated my record 'Antipodal Polyphony' the music of ‘Are’are people, I made a mix of their disappearing (or presumably already disappeared, but once astonishingly diverse) musical culture.”

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‘Are’are Music and Tunings: Mixed by Gosheven

New record out on 3 March 2023!

https://decolonizeyourmind.bandcamp.com/album/a-second-invitation-to-an-uninterrupted-katabatic-lens

Katabatic Lens is the second and certainly irrefutable invitation to the inimitable artistic world of this exceptional Hungarian band.

Following the path on after their widely acclaimed debut Anabatic Prism, the geography and climate has somewhat changed: the playfulness and colourfulness of higher overtones central to Anabatic Prism fall apart and a massive gate instantly opens up to a down-to-earthness nowhere else to be found.

Is it an ancient human culture excavated in the soil or rather a fearless survival attempt in a possible near future?

Whatever the answer is, as we walk through these immense and diverse landscapes invoked by the record's stunning compositions featuring different "equal divisions of the octave" tunings and complex metres, one can be sure that this unknown planet seems real and tangible, fierce and muddy, corporeal and with an unattainable antigravitational urge to leave weightiness behind.

Our ears are enchanted by the catchy melodies while they indelibly come back to us over and over again... We are simply hooked on them.

Tender Light Bender

A repetitive piece inspired by gamelan music. The piece is composed with SuperCollider, a tenori-on and gamelan samples.

Released on the tape / digital album 'Minnowahaw' avaiable on OGGY RECORDS:
https://viezecocktails.bandcamp.com/album/minnowahaw

gamellaxarksky - MINNOWAHAW NOW OUT ON OGGY RECORDS

For multi tracked Cat's Cradle, an original composition in 31 tone equal temperament, inspired by Bach and James Tenney. The Cat's Cradle is an instrument with electro magnetic sympathetic strings and a neck with interchangeable fretboards and infinite sustain. There are no effects on the track.

Variation 5

Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 (SLT-005)

Saltern presents its fifth release, Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, the first comprehensive collection of recordings surveying the career of renowned, American cellist Charles Curtis. Selected by Curtis and Tashi Wada from recordings spanning the past two decades, the collection offers a broad, inclusive view of Curtis's activities across the diverse worlds of music he inhabits, containing rare, unreleased recordings, and never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis. The wide-ranging scope of this release speaks not to a musical restlessness, but to a genuine spirit of inquiry, as these areas of activity for Curtis have existed concurrently in dialogue, not simply in succession, for decades. Over two hours of music by composers and artists with whom Curtis is closely associated including Éliane Radigue, Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Silvestro di Ganassi, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Alison Knowles, Richard Maxfield, and Curtis himself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with liner notes by La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt, and Tashi Wada. Custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry.

Performances & Recordings 1998-2018

Charles Curtis – Unfinished Song (1998)

I’ve been working hard to make the next big step in Gosheven’s musical world. By using the already declining tuning system of the exceptional ‘are’are people living in Malaita (Solomon Islands), I’m now walking on a completely unknown path... 

The first step is this record released on 20 March - it was originally an exhibition opening concert presented last September. 

On 1 May I will put out the second step, another live concert recording. 

You can buy here: 
https://gosheven.bandcamp.com/album/proto-equiheptatonic-music

Proto Equiheptatonic Music

Years ago I read an interview with György Ligeti where he spoke about the overused European tuning system and how he tried to escape it. He mentioned a few ethnomusicologists whose recordings were primary inspirations for his work. One of the names was Hugo Zemp and I immediately delved into his unbelievable recordings collected on the Southern part of Malaita island around the year 1970.

The music of the 'are'are people back then was fragile and heartwarming, communal and sublimely celebratory. Ever since I simply haven't been able to escape the sounding of their panpipe ensembles. At the same time I feel really sad that - like so many plant and wildlife species - small local cultures are also disappearing at an alarming rate, theirs included. My whole research and artistic output can be seen as a dedication to these people of disappearing local cultures.

As a first step I recorded "Proto Equiheptatonic Music" last year where I used the theoretical equiheptatonic tuning system which is a close approximation of their musical DNA. Listen: bit.ly/2Sb6JsQ

As I studied more and more - thanks to the scientific papers of Mr. Zemp - I could see the structures in finer details and as a consequence I could record "Pseudo Equiheptatonic Music" where I was using the exact tuning system of their recorded panpipe ensembles - but in a completely different context and vision. So I cannot emphasize enough that these musics cannot be considered as representations of their musical culture in any ways, rather an uninterrupted continuation of the ever-expanding universe of Gosheven's ceaseless dreaming.

releases May 1, 2020

https://gosheven.bandcamp.com/album/pseudo-equiheptatonic-music

Pseudo Equiheptatonic Music

Pseudo Equiheptatonic Music III

https://decolonizeyourmind.net/

an open society of musicians founded in 2018 by @Gosheven presenting the inexhaustible treasures of non-standard tuning systems and decolonizing our listening habits

Booking: tibor@keysermusic.com

2025/
14 Feburary @ MENT Festival, Ljubljana, SI
28 March @ Dürer Kert, Budapest, HU Fb event
3 July @ Kolorádó Festival, Nagykovácsi, HU
15 Aug @ Barlang, Szentendre, HU
30 Aug @ Inota Festival, Várpalota, HU
30 Oct @ Opus Jazz Club, Budapest, HU
21 Nov @ Palazzo Permanens, Budapest, HU
28 Nov @ Sargfabrik, Vienna, AT

2024/
22 March @ Opus Jazz Club, Budapest, HU
12 April @ Budapest Ritmo - Akvarium, Budapest HU
27 April @ Santsat Festival, Budapest, HU
7 June @ Tilos Maraton, Dürer Kert, Budapest, HU
29 June @ Barlang, Szentendre, HU
4 July @ Kolorado Festival, Nagykovácsi, HU
13 July @ Pohoda Festival, Trencin, SK - CANCELLED
17 July @ Gombaszög Summer Camp, Gombaszög, SK - CANCELLED
3 Oct @ Turbina, Budapest, HU
15 Nov @ ORA Jazzfestival, Nagyvarad, RO
29 Dec @ Trafo, Budapest, HU
 
2023/
11 March @ Magyar Zene Háza - Album release show, Budapest, HU
15 June @ T3 Bratislava, SK
16 June @ Szentendre Barlang, HU
1 July @ Kolorado Festival, HU
10 Aug @ Malomfesztivál, Orom, RS
1 September @ Székesfehérvár, HU
20 October @ Turbina, Budapest, HU https://www.facebook.com/events/3521023538151218

2022/
5 January @ BMC, HU
29 June @ Fusion Festival, Larz, DE
2 July @ Kolorado Festival, HU
8 July @ Tű Fokán Fesztivál, Garáb, HU
10 July @ Szabadkikötő, Pécs, HU
23 Sept @ Újbuda Jazz Fest, A38, HU

2021/
30 Jun @ BMC Opus Jazz Club, HU
2 Jul @ Azure, Nagymaros, HU
24 Jul @ Colour Meeting, CZ 
27 Jul @ Kapolcs, HU
12 Aug @ Kolorado, HU
14 Aug @ Malomfesztivál, Orom, RS
27 Aug @ Ubik, HU
29 Sept @ Trafo, HU 
9 Oct @ Donaufestival, Krems, AT 
30 Oct @ Kyiv Biennal, UA https://kyivbiennial.org/en
20 Nov @ Explore The North Festival, Leeuwarden, NL - CANCELLED
10 Dec @ Grand Café Szeged, HU
2022/ 5 January @ BMC, HU

2020/
29 August @ Kolorado Festival, HU
24 April @ Fono, Budapest, HU

2019/
22 November @ Lumen, Budapest, HU
19 October @ CAFe Budapest Akvarium, HU
23 September @ Pontoon Monday Session, Budapest, HU
7 August @ Samsara Festival, Siofok, HU
11 April @ Societe Budapest, HU

2018/
19 December @ Lumen, Budapest, HU

Balint Szabo aka @Gosheven - guitar, electronics
Aron Porteleki @portelekiaron - drums
Andras Halmos @andrashalmos - drums
Erno Hock - bass
Marcell Gyanyi @marcellgyanyi - bass
Mate Pozsar @pozsarmate - keyboards
Daniel Vaczi - glissonic
Gergo Kovats @gergokovats
Janos Aved @janosaved - saxophone
Dori Gyorfi - vocal, gamelan instruments
Agi Gyorfi - gamelan instruments

other projects: @Gosheven, @12z

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