Name: Study for Decomposing Flowers I: Frescobaldi Recercar by ed williams
Duration: 11 min 27 s
Description: A group decomposition for three harpsichords and six players based on the chromatic recercar from Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali (1635).

Red Roof

"the greatest trees are cut down"
Composer: Ellen Arkbro
Performer: Eva Albalghiti
Publisher: GCNA (https://www.gcna.org/music-store#!/PDF-the-greatest-trees-are-cut-down/p/470244568)

LIVE RECORDING made at the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America's 2022 Congress, hosted by the University of Chicago (recording engineer: Christopher Willis CW Media)

Performed on the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon on June 18, 2022

"the greatest trees are cut down" was commissioned by the GCNA's Johan Franco Composition Fund (https://www.gcna.org/commissions)

All rights reserved. Posted with permission.

the greatest trees are cut down by Ellen Arkbro

Music improvised for the Winterbühne at Bad Muskau 03.02.2023

Wassermusik 03.02.23

Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. The series takes place on the second Sunday of every month. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.

For its forty-first edition, Second Sundays invited electroacoustic musician Valérie Vivancos.
Valérie Vivancos creates immersive and concrete soundscapes. Currently based in Paris after 11 years in the Anglo-Saxon underground, she has performed at international venues, festivals, and art events and collaborated with the likes of Carl Stone, Kamylia Jubran and Limpe Fuchs.
http://www.oceanvivasilver.com/

Playlist: 
Alexis Degrenier_Decliner  
Annelies Monseré_My Finest Hour  
Carol Robinson_Back into the Gaping Again-ness-A  
Vânia Dantas Leite_L'Indien et L'Ovni  
Otto Sidharta_Kerrikil  
Kamilya Jubran_Qawafel 
 Les Filles de Illighadad_Telilit  
Tanya Tagaq_Retribution  
KANG aka Ji Youn Kang_Time-Folding V.7
Maria Cristina Kazem_Las aguas abismales  
Limpe Fuchs_Listen  
Limpe Fuchs_trommeln dialogue electric I (Split EP with Valérie Vivancos) 
 Ocean Viva Silver_Summstein

https://www.q-o2.be/en/event/second-sundays-41-valerie-vivancos/

Valérie Vivancos - Second Sundays #41

Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. The series takes place on the second Sunday of every month. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.

For its forty-second edition, Second Sundays invites violinist Clara Lévy, for a listening session around Hildegard of Bingen and Pauline Oliveros.
https://clara-levy.com/

Playlist:
Hildegard Von Bingen - Karitas (arrangement Hugh Collins Rice - ensemble Médiva
Marianne Schuppe - Pipes 
 Sarah Davachi - Hall of Mirrors interprete Tiffany Nguyen
James tenney - Glissade pour alto (William Lane), cello (francesco dillon), dbass (Dario Calderone) et tape delay. 
Polyphonie Sarde - Jesu - Confraternita Delle Voci : 
D’incise - L’anglard de Saint-donnat
Clara de Asis et Mara Winter - Repetition of the same dream
Alfonso X El Sabio - Muito Faz Gran erro CSM. 209 (La Capella reial de Catalunya & Hespèrion XXI)
Pauline Oliveros - The Tuning Meditation 

https://www.q-o2.be/en/event/second-sundays-42/

Clara Lévy - Second Sundays #42

A group decomposition for three harpsichords and six players based on the chromatic recercar from Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali (1635).

Study for Decomposing Flowers I: Frescobaldi Recercar

book of flowers

Katelyn Clark - chamber organ
Ben Grossman - hurdy gurdy

Exolvuntur Lepores

extract from an improvisation by Ed Williams and Lucien Danzeisen, both playing a clavichord and electronics
basel, 2024.

clavichord duo improvisation set extract

The two enharmonic madrigals found in "L'antica musica ridotta alla prattica moderna" (Rome 1555), played on a reconstruction of Vicentino's Archicembalo, built by Marco Tiella and Formentelli in 1974. Live performance by Johannes Keller. 

Madonna Il Poco Dolce

This is the live recording of an improvised piece performed on organetto.  It was performed live at the church in Skagastrond, Iceland, in March 2013.  

Organetto improv on e iceland 2013

Ed Williams is a harpsichordist, guitarist and composer working within the interstices between early music practices, noise improvisation, experimental composition and trans*feminist aesthetics.

Study for Decomposing Flowers I: Frescobaldi Recercar

ed williams

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