A rhythmic improv on a DIY Buchla 200.

All sounds created within the synthesizer - no external processing.

Two To FIve To Three 200 2103

Truth

a study of gentle and lilting arpeggiation, through repetition and subtle variation. Working with this material, I was drawn to treating it with delicate care and an intuitive sense of humanity. The kindness and patience of others toward their art became a stimulus for my approach in this music.

Performed by Mira Benjamin and Philip Thomas at Music We'd Like to Hear in London on Friday 5th July 2019. 

Mixed by Adam Webster.

kindly, softly

Cosmic Communication (All The Stars)

From Fragments III — Collected Resonances from Radiophonic Æther now availble only on bandcamp.

Fragments III — Collected Resonances from Radiophonic Æther

D'une couleur oubliée

My track from the Welcome to Space Lounge Vol.3 cassette:

https://welcometospacelounge.com/shop/welcome-to-space-lounge-v-3/

Forest Floor

kalanchoe

Echoic Memories (2019)
MVT I: 0:00
MVT II: 19:25
MVT III: 33:30
MVT IV: 45:58

*live zoom recording

a mobile pocket opera in 4 movements 
for mixed ensemble (9) + radio transmission
composed for the 10th edition of Music@VillaRomana festival
composer - Keiko Devaux
Manuel Zurria, flute
Georgia Privitera, violin
Laura Bertolino, violin
Francesco Vernero, viola
Aline Privitera, cello
Francesco Dillon, cello
Francesco Platoni, double bass
Emanuele Torquati, radio (AM)
Simone Beneventi, percussion
Riccardo D. Wanke, radio (AM)

+4 radios (AM/FM) and 2 radio transmitters

Echoic memories is conceived as a singular long-form piece/audience experience of approximately 60 minutes, consisting of three different movements structured around the physical layout and performance spaces of Villa Romana. Each space acts as a movement, or 'variation,' of musical gestures that recur and transform throughout the piece, interacting with the changes in locations and instrumentation. It is a mobile performance where the audience changes locations and the different ensembles and movements overlap, beginning and ending their respective movements as the audience transitions between locations. This mobile interaction allows the composition to explore both the locations of the musicians in each movement's ensemble, and the position of the audience themselves as they move toward and away from the sound.

This piece is focused on audience experience and how time, sonic distortion, and spatial context inform our perception, amplifying and unveiling different elements and layers of recurring material. The movements act not as linear developments of musical material, but as distorted 'variations' and spatial transpositions of the same experience.

audio recording: Federico Perotti
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjBTJRIdvMU&t=2871s&ab_channel=FrancescoDillon
a/v editing  Fausto Pizzocchero

ECHOIC MEMORIES (2019)

Trio for harp, flute and viola

Performed by Ghost Ensemble at Areté venue and gallery, Brooklyn November 2019

Margaret Lancaster(flute)
Lucia Stavros (harp)
Carrie Frey(viola)

After some time away from composing notated music, being occupied more with open and text scores, the lovely Ghost Ensemble approached me for a piece, and what came out is an actual score and this lovely performance in November 2019. 

Thank you Ben Richter and Ghost Ensemble for organizing this sensitive, nuanced and thoughtful performance of a piece that could have gone many different ways.

Please write me if you'd like to take a look at the score!

Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp

20210109

Imperial expansion is as much about conquering nature as it is about subjugating people. The Russian state’s expansion to the edges of the Eurasian continent exemplifies the challenge of turning frozen and inhospitable land into livable space or converting lush landscapes into profit and prosperity. To get a better understanding of this process in some of the far reaches of Russia, I turned to two people Sharyl Corrado and Paul Josephson to talk about Sakhalin and the Arctic respectively and relationship between Russian imperial expansion and nature, and how environment was imagined and shaped in the process.



Guests:



Paul Josephson, the author of 13 books, is professor of history at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, and visiting, part-time professor at Tomsk State University.  A historian of big science and technology, he conducted archival research in Arctic regions while working on his monograph, The Conquest of the Russian Arctic.  His most recent book, with Polity Press, is called Chicken: A History from Farmyard to Factory.  He is working now on a global nuclear environmental history.



Sharyl Corrado is Associate Professor of History and History Program Director at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.  She has published articles on the environmental history and historical geography of the imperial Russian Far East in a variety of academic journals in English and Russian. She is also known within Russian Baptist circles for her research on Russian Baptist and Evangelical history, including a monograph published in Russian and an edited volume on East European Baptist History.  She is currently working on an annotated collection of letters written by a Red Cross sister serving in the Sakhalin Penal colony.

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