Name: Fragments - Bagatelle by Douwe Eisenga
Duration: 45 s
Description: Demo of a short version of Bagatelle, part of 'Fragments, three short pieces for carillon"

music by Richard James, aka Aphex Twin
arranged for quartet by Christian Ryan (2021)

performed live May 20, 2021
at Fulton Street Collective, Chicago
Midtown Strings:
Natalie Frakes, violin
Caitlin Edwards, violin
Michelle Manson, viola
Kelsee Vandervall - cello

Avril 14 (arr. Christian Ryan)

One Thousand Roads was written for the opening concert of the Bachfestival Dordrecht 2021, with the festival theme ‘travelling’ in mind. 

Bach himself did not travel much. Except for his hike to hear Buxtehude play, he was pretty much a stay-at-home kind of guy. Unlike his peer Handel, who went to England and made a flourishing living there as a free artist, Bach always remained in the service of the church.

This does not alter the fact that Bach travelled in his music: he knew the music of his contemporaries well and used, cited and processed it in his own work. You could say that Bach travelled by appropriating the music of others. Bach not only traveled horizontally in his music but also vertically, into heaven. In the course of the last century, we have come to regard Bach himself almost as a saint.

One Thousand Roads is all about that horizontal and vertical roaming. It's about the thousand different reasons to travel, about Bach's foot journey to Buxethude and the account of his rebuke by the consistory. And ultimately it’s about the last journey everyone makes.

The lyrics were taken from Google (Travel), the proceedings of the Arnstadt consistory (Rebuke) and from some Bach cantatas (Prayer). The second part Chorale is based upon one of Bach’s many chorales that use the melody O Welt, Ich Muß dich lassen.

Premiere by Claron McFadden, B'Rock Orchestra and Klang, June 25 2021, Buitenpodium Energieplein, Dordrecht.

One Thousand Roads

A solo cello with the aid of a loop pedal.

Adamantia

Eclisse

Stacks on Lines (2015)

Noord Nederlands Orkest and Anthony Hermus (conductor), October 10, 2014 in De Oosterpoort in Groningen.

As I Opened Fire

(2012/2013)
*Instrumental* version available for the first time online!

from Clibber Jones Ensemble's E.P. "I Am the Avalanche"

" I Am the Avalanche" is a prog rock fantasy in 5 continuous movements. It was composed for the Clibber Jones Ensemble by Olivia Kieffer.

I. I Am the Avalanche
II. I Am the Destroyer
III. I Will Collapse into the Sea
IV. The Sun Upon the Earth
V. I Am the Water Falling

Teresa Feliciano - flute, piccolo
Tim Crump - tenor and soprano saxophone
Amy O'Dell - keyboard and keytar
Darren Nelsen - electric guitar
Bill Pritchard - electric bass
Brandon Dodge - vibraphone, percussion
Olivia Kieffer - drums, percussion

Recorded at MOTH Music in Lawrenceville, GA
Producer Olivia Kieffer
Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Tim Hinds and Olivia Kieffer

E.P. released through Blood Drunk Records, August 2014.
Version with vocals available here: https://blooddrunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-the-avalanche

I Am the Avalanche

I Am the Avalanche (E.P.)

I Am The Avalanche (for chamber rock band)

(2018)
Shorts
I. Dick! Sheila!
II. bargain moms
III. hot frog earthshaking America
IV. sinners salute balloon
V. palace of explosive kidney
VI. the chicken of the snail

DEMO - sound by Noteperformer III

Buy the sheet music here:
http://oliviakieffer.com/strings/

Shorts (for string quartet)- DEMO

Demo of a short version of Bagatelle, part of 'Fragments, three short pieces for carillon"

Fragments - Bagatelle

Recorded by Radio4

Performed by Nieuw Ensemble // Live in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Zoning Out

The House That I Built was commissioned by the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Utrecht Early Music Festival), for the rather unusual scoring of positive organ, theorbo, bass gamba and two sopranos. The sopranos are Eugénie Warnier (artist-in-residence in the Utrecht festival) and Elodie Fonnard. The ensemble is the Strassbourg based Le Parlement de Musique, led by organist Martin Gester. The recording (by Concertzender) is the first performance of the song. 

The lyrics are a three-line song in Henry Thoreau’s Walden:
This is the house that I built,
This is the man that lives in the house that I built,
These are the folks that worry the man that lives in the house that I built.

The House That I Built

MAXIMAL MUSIC

Douwe Eisenga writes sparkling music for sparkling minds, a mesmerizing mix of minimal, rock and baroque. All of these elements come together in music with maximum effect: Maximal Music.

Fragments - Bagatelle

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