all sorts of strange sounds here ....but still in accordance....nice work

Excellent track! Experimental but so enjoyable)

Great composition well played and produced!

made it for a international Italian competition for electronic music
"Premio nazionale delle Arti"

composer:
Yapi Jean François

Acqua violino e cielo by Yapi Jean François

Studio recording mix of VISITATION (2012) featuring Stuart Gerber, percussionist.  This work is the final work in a collection of related works including Vivid Air (2011) for percussion and electroacoustics and the octophonic work, Out of the Vivid Air (2010). 

Now available at Amazon.com and iTunes and at Aucourant Records website!

CD + MP3

VISITATION - percusssion and electroacoustic sound

Download: http://ianbheadley.bandcamp.com/album/burchfield

Composed from field recordings taken between May 12 - 14, Vinalhaven, Maine.

Thanks to Edward Young and Douglas Durant who helped me collect the source material: chucking rocks, vibrating knives, singing glasses, boiling lobsters, rusted-car graveyards, ocean surf, murmuring frogs, corporeal movements of the recorder, board game pieces, straw broom on firewood, drain pipes, wind through trees, and laughter with friends.

****MASTERING NOTE****
This work has been mastered in a style closer to a Classical music recording, as opposed to an Electronica work. 
Adjust playback volume accordingly. 
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Burchfield

Lyrics:

"Notte Splendida Notte" is featured on "Le Viole Stelle",  poetry book by Loretta Scarazzati, LietoColle publisher, Italy. Here the original text, and its translation by David Harper and Loretta Scarazzati. For courtesy license by LietoColle.

notte splendida notte

profonda e misteriosa

insondabile

splendida notte

che mi chiami

al tuo mistero

di silenzio

credevo di averlo scordato

ma esiste, ancora!

night wonderful night

deep and mysterious

unfathomable

wonderful night

you‘re calling me

to your mystery

of silence

I thought I ‘d forgotten

but it exists, still!

Credits:

David Harper -composer
Anne Fuchs -voice
Daniel Barton -piano and sound engineer
Charles Hagaman -sound engineer, composer
Loretta Scarazzati -poetry
Aaron Graham -instrumentation, program notes
Maria Johnson -Chinese Flute

I experimented with using Braille as a means to interpret astronomical symbols into musical pitches.  So the dipper part of the Big Dipper is an F-eigth note in musical braille.  Some fun was had when Draco's head met with Gemini, Cancer, and Leo aurally.

Sounds were created from CSound, inspired by Blue Cube by Kim Cascone.  Check his music out when you have the time!

More information can be viewed here:
http://www.astronomy...otte_splendida/

Program Notes:

Notte Splendida Notte was imagined through the interpretation of stars.  The composer, interpreting the night sky, then took these visions and applied them to Braille, a system of reading for the non-sighted community.  It was through this process that the interpretations were set to music.  This was one of the many objectives of the composition of the piece, to try and provide some understanding of the night sky to the non-sighted community.  "Art Inspires Art"

The piece is a symbolic work, meant to portray an "audio vision" of the night sky.  The original content for the piece was acutually not more than a minute long, then stretched and eleaborated upon to invoke a dark, vast, open atmosphere.  This process of elongation creates large "clouds" of sound, also described as "nebulas," words often used to describe the sky, stars, the world, the universe.......

Even more than trying to invoke this feeling in the non-sighted community, the composer wishes to invoke it in anyone who has ever felt this way about the night sky.  ANyone who has ever sat and looked at the stars and felt some kind of awe, or inspiration.

"You become legend when you become a composer.  Every sound is defined by its meaning through you, and ultimately, the composition as a whole becomes self referencing through its parts even.  A piece of your being is reflected in the music: who are you? where do you come from? what are your available resources?  However, while you are creating, this identity is completely irrelevant to you at the time.  There is something else held deeply in your immediate attention, and the identity of self is a small, simple notion working on a subversive level outside of consciousness (a very dangerous form of existence).  Your identity returns when your composition becomes the key, realizing that any question about the music you live in contains in it a solution for all questions about music that you may ever have.  The solution reveals itself.  It is then that the argument is made for the idea that even though a cymbal may contain all sounds and pitches within it, the symphony is still not yet defined.  Like the homosapien may contain all forms of emotions, the human is still not yet defined.  "Notte Splendida Notte" is a music made of sounds, ideas, words, and even footprints too.  But, can you accept it as music? or could you consider it as incidental sounds like the one that grows on the pumpkin vine.  A collaboration among musicians: maybe it is simply an effort to define the work of an ensemble scattered across the earth we live on with a human shape..."

Notte Splendida Notte

A five parts composition made exclusively with recordings of bouncing plastic bottles.
The general atmosphere is quite distressing and let me think of nightmares…so the title !

Noir Oniros

1st Prize Winner of the 2011 Musicworks Magazine Electronic Music Award. Article here: https://www.musicworks.ca/featured-article/sound-bite/ian-battenfield-headley

Available for streaming and purchase here: 
https://open.spotify.com/album/6BrCNqK5wQ1x0Nlpiikw21

https://ianbheadley.bandcamp.com/album/passages

The work was made available on the CD released with Musicworks Magazine Winter 2012 issue  

Composed in 2009

Passage

Dérive was commissioned by La Muse En Circuit as the prize in the Concours Luc Ferrari.

Thanks to everyone at La Muse En Circuit!

Dérive is a stereo acousmatic work, started at the studios of La Muse En Circuit and finished in the composer's own studio. The piece was premiered at the Archipel Festival, Geneva, March 22nd 2013. 

I crisscrossed the city of Paris in search of sounds... My itinerary was built from walks, all having as their point of departure the official centre of Paris, the point 48.8534°N 2.3488°E on the square in front of Notre-Dame Cathedral.

I don't wish to explain too much about this piece: instead, I prefer for the listener to be led through the work by their ear and imagination, much as I was led around the streets of Paris. Dérive seeks to explore the connections between environments... But Dérive is not only a documentary work: above all, it is poetic and mythological, a reading of the city at the present time, an exploration of the sounds, spaces, histories and cultures that shape Paris.

I walked over 100 kilometers in order to gather the materials for Dérive. I walked the full length of both banks of the Seine within the boundary of Boulevard Périphérique, recording the sounds of boats, gulls, the constant fluctuations of the river, it's voice rushing and changing, reverberating in tunnels and under bridges, merging with the sounds of traffic in the open air. I recorded the tombs of the Panthéon, the streets of Montmartre, the ambience and beautifully melancholic songs of Sacré-Couer, Notre Dame and its surrounding areas; the creaking floorboards of the house of Gustave Moreau, the city sounds from the top of the Eiffel Tower, the tunnels of the Metro, dozens of street performers, office workers playing ping-pong during lunch breaks, children playing in Place des Vosges and...

At the conclusion of this work, it seems to me that Paris is a city of flow and friction, of movement and interruption. But perhaps more than this, it is a place of saturation and juxtaposition. I could walk 100 kilometers more, following the flow and haltering rhythms of the city, in silent reverie.

Dérive (2013)

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