This is a piece I prepared and played live at Hola Sessions on the Dec 14th 2023, Prästmon. It´s made with 2 harmonicas, AudioMulch (delay, granulator, arpeggiosynth), one small tourist bell (from Cambridge) and a kalimba built by one of the sons of Hukwe Zawose (Bagamoyo, Tanzania). The "Hola" reference in title is both to the series of books like "Hej Klarinett" and "Hej Piano", beginners notebooks. Hola is spanish for "Hej" (hello in english). I am a beginner in harmonica. I love the sounds from it. So a rediscovering and saying hello to this instrument. The other Hola reference is the "Hola folkhögskola", the folk high school up in the north of Sweden, where I work. Hola Sessions is a series of concerts that has happened there for about 10 years. (The 50 Cent reference - at first it was named Hola Harmonica 50 Cent) has not much to do with the artist 50 Cent more than one of my students wanted me to make a live remix of a track by 50 Cent, or a mashup that I suggested. Now it happened to be more of a mashup in the title of this piece and a bit of sortof  after construction that the harmonicas I played on might have costed 50 Cent at some moment in history. This is as most oftly played live while recording, so it is no edits except some slight compression and some slight EQ added. Hope you enjoy!  Photo by Henrik Ljusberg

Hola Harmonica

This is a composition of mine played by the Rush Hour ensemble, 
in which I used a Guitar Wing to control the live computer part. This was performed in the Reid Concert Hall as part of the Dialogues Festival. The ensemble was directed by Peter Nelson. 

John Konsolakis- Clarinet 
Richard Blaquiere- Piano
Muang Luanghvisut- Violin
Georgina Finlayson- Violin
Daniel Safford- Viola
Justyna Jablonska Edmonds- Cello
Russel Wimbish- Double Bass

Live sound engineering by Ana Betancourt, Roderick Dunlop Buchanan & Dee O'Leary

Mixing by Nicholas Canny, Aggelos Mastrantonis and Jack Walker.
Mastering by Nicholas Canny

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Resist 2020 Mantra, esprime la volontà di resistere, passare il lockdown, la socialità repressa, e confidare nella rinascita attraverso il cambiamento e l’aggregazione.
Esecuzione per Augmented Drum +  e Live Electronics.

Resist 2020 Mantra

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