microtonal compositions for instruments and electronics by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen.

Flavio Virzi: guitars, electric bass, mandolin
Sonja Horlacher: flutes
Kai Littkopf: percussions


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Leo Brouwer - Etude No. XX performed by Janko Rašeta.

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Recorded live, June 17, 2011
Gewölbekeller der Stadtbücherei, Weimar

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzc9vrr8HCs

Leo Brouwer - Etude XX

5 Pieces for String Quartet was first Performed at the British Music Information Centre, London in 1986 by the Goldsmith's String Quartet. In 1994-5 they were toured in the UK by the Almira String Quartet.  It is written using quarter-tones, although unlike some of my other music I would not describe it as a quarter-tone structured work. The movements are Inflow; Flux; Fall; Chords; Elegy. This is a realisation using Kontakt: there are obviously limitations to this but, in particular, the high melody in Elegy is played on 'cello harmonics and the equivalence is very approximate.

5 Pieces For String Quartet (Realisation)

Winter Solstice, day 21, and the sonic advent calendar 'Sounds for Shrinking Days' draws to a close. The birdsong was recorded in London around sunrise on 21 December 2020. I plan to release more developed versions of parts of this project, some as sheet music, on Bandcamp soon – please follow me there for updates. Thank you for listening and for your comments. Here's to the coming of the light. Happy Solstice. x

Sounds For Shrinking Days 21

Donald Bousted is a composer and mixed media artist working in London and Norfolk, UK.  He is Artistic Director of Microtonal Projects and joint author, with Stephen Altoft, of The Microtonal Trumpet.  He is Musical Director of Forgotten Spaces and EUROMicroFest.

He is a curator of mixed media events including 5 Wild Dog events in London’s Docklands and a Late at Tate (Microtonal), at Tate Britain.

His most recent work has sought to integrate elements of film, performance, live art and pre-recorded elements.

A number of works, including the installation with Gary O’Connor ‘broader than broadway’ and the mixed media pieces in your dreams, touch and the black hole utilise ‘home-made’ speakers made by attaching exciters to musical instruments, glass, floorboards and walls.

In 2014, Donald completed the 50 minute 19.5, a work in 19 divisions of the octave (19-div), commissioned by duo Contour (Stephen Altoft, trumpet and Lee Ferguson, percussion). The 12 movement work, written for a specially designed trumpet and a malletKat (MIDI mallet instrument) is one of a number of works written for acoustic instruments using non-standard tunings.

Donald has a PhD in musical composition from the University of Huddersfield where he worked for 8 years as a lecturer in composition. Now freelance, he has presented his music and projects at many UK music departments including the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music; in America at LA MicroFest; in South Korea and at the Akademie der Tonkunst, Darmstadt and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany.  He gives joint presentations, with Stephen Altoft, on the microtonal trumpet.

5 Pieces For String Quartet (Realisation)

Donald Bousted

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