commissioned & premiered by Loadbang

Trumpet: Andy Kozar
Trombone: William Lang
Bass Clarinet: Adrián Sandí 
Baritone Voice: Jeffrey  Gavett 
Date: October 1, 2021
Venue: Opera America (NYC)
Event: loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 17
Audio and Video by Stuart Breczinski

video: https://youtu.be/cfU1rI2Ge9w

ghosts & monsters (2021) | loadbang ensemble

Mondnacht

...Kingdom, Ever Darkly

They crawl, they crawl

SignH

ruhe

Chigiana Academy- 29.07.2022- Trio Prometeo, Matteo Cesari and Paolo Ravaglia
Mix- Mastering: Mehmet Ali Uzunselvi

The Birds- For five musicians

Commissioned and performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective

Part of a project called 'Five Uncertain Situations' with Prague City Gallery. Exhibition and concert at Dům U kamenného zvonu (Stone Bell House), Old Town Square, Prague in December 2022.

Bass clarinet - Anna Paulová
Baritone electric guitar - Ian Mikyska
Violin - Milan Jakeš
Double bass - Luan Goncalves

Mixed by Juraj Mišejka

This piece was written in response to a set of photograms from Aleksandra Vajd’s The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, which features two parallel lines, each changing colour halfway. To me this work is about things in flux, things moving toward or away from something else. In my piece, I am interested in how players might focus on periods of instability and change within and between sounds. By leaving the score more open, I hope to provide more space for the players to follow their curiosity and their ears, to be responsive to the sounds and to each other in the moment. - SL

"Sylvia’s piece is a rare occurrence: a simple, relatively undefined score that does not provide instructions for formal development over the entirety of the piece, yet immediately, the first time we rehearsed it, it was clear that the piece had a clear-cut character and a complex web of internal relationships. The simplicity and directness of Vajd’s photograms is here transformed into a focus on all the chaotic and noisy shadows, interferences, and byproducts that appear when players are tasked with exploring well-chosen, fluctuating effects and various transitions between them. Here, instability is always present at multiple levels — perhaps we could even speak of an interaction between instabilities, a dusty sonic layer covering the simple material play of the photograms." - Ian Mikyska

Overlapping Transformations (2022)

a combination of electromagnetic recordings to generate the feedback for the assignment and some old field recordings of birds squabbling at local sheds, with occasional environmental noises and artifacts. 
both tracks had lots of noise i tried to use as texture
added various layers of fx
all mixed in ableton


More on this 590th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Concrète Roots (The Assignment: Make music combining field recordings and feedback), at: https://disquiet.com/0590/ 1

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/ 1

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0590-concrete-roots/

Into Noise [disquiet0590]

More on this 599th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Minimal(ist) Blend (The Assignment: Make a piece of music that combines self-contained minimalist parts), at: https://disquiet.com/0599/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0599-minimal-ist-blend/

Tiniest Cloud (disquiet0599)

mountain’s red leaves
the setting sun returns
to the sky

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

Picture by Laura Vinck https://unsplash.com/photos/Hyu76loQLdk
Waveform background by Darren Bourne

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

more halF unusuaL

halF settinG [naviarhaiku496]

Freelancer Composer
http://egemen-kurt.com
Contact: infoegemenkurt@icloud.com

The Birds- For five musicians

Egemen Kurt

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