"EMDR" by Augustus Arnone, an electronic composition realized with modular synthesizers.

Augustus Arnone: EMDR

The music, sounds, and stories of composer Miguel Frasconi, known for work with instruments made from glass and also a master of analog electronic sound. Here are solos for glass, mbira, and a piece for the Jack String Quartet, all recorded in concert at Roulette, plus a 1995 electronic trio with J.A. Deane and Bob Ostertag recorded at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco.

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Miguel Frasconi: Breaking Glass

This voice recording was sent to me by Iryna Danyleiko on March 2, 2022, as the air raid siren was ringing in Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Air raid siren in Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Collide-O-Scope Music - live performance of "Absence" (2021) by Eleonor Sandresky, for flute, cello, piano, and percussion.

Roberta Michel, flute
Austin Fisher, cello
Dylan Ofrias, percussion
Augustus Arnone, piano

Sandresky Absence

When I was recently on tour in Norway, I was hiking in the mountains around Bergen and came across a pond where someone had been chopping wood. For a while, I've been interested in using different types of wood to prepare my piano for a new series of compositions called ELEMENTAL, and these pieces of wood were perfect, so I brought a bunch back home with me and started preparing my piano with them, and also with some pieces that I've been collecting at Rockaway Beach in NYC. This is the result.

Elements- Wood 1

This is the sound of a single nut in a state of flux, recorded using JrF c-series contact mics into a Sound Devices 7-series recorder. No processing of the recording has been used.

I first became aware of the sounds of nuts and seeds when cooking as a teenager and more so in my early twenties through my interest in Indonesian cuisine - the candlenut for example can burn for several minutes as it is laden with oil, as indeed are most nuts. I experimented with different ways to record them being fried, cracked, ground or burnt, mostly with conventional microphones. I remember seeing a fellow artist using them in their live performances back in the early 2000's & being reminded of the possibilities these small objects contain.

This recording is 2 sections of a long form recording as part of a piece i've been working on for a few years now, using only the sounds of nuts & seeds, and which will be exhibited in 2017.

(nb. the process of recording nuts / seeds burning was not invented by me - there are examples from the 70's and 80's for example. It is increasingly important to recognise and acknowledge the history of sonic exploration - not to support out-dated systems of hierarchy per say but simply as both a respect for the work and in order for ones own work to have integrity. If this process is of interest I can suggest looking into the work of Sandrine Verdely, Toru Takemitsu (tape music era), Delphine Slight, The female, Lee Patterson etc.)

dissolves - nut / seeds (extracts)

"Semper Dolens" (2018)is for 6 taped flutes and solo flute. It is loosely based on a John Dowland piece "I Saw My My Lady Weep." It works with sustained harmony and dissonance. There is a saying about Dowland: "Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens" (always Dowland, always doleful), which inspired the title. Performed by Manuel Zurria

Semper Dolens

Short Alaap for the moon (Chandra)
A night Alaap explored by Glenn Louvet on Rudra Veena
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#dhrupad
#rudraveena
#raga

Chandrakauns Short Alaap

For solo piano, inspired by the Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh's saying "flow like a river...not a drop of water." 

Calligraphy by shodo artist, Masako Inkyo and tells a Buddhist poem from 1212:
 "Though the river's current never fails, the water passing, moment by moment, is never the same. Where the current pools, bubbles form on the surface, bursting and disappearing as others rise to replace them, none lasting long. In this world, people and their dwelling places are like that, always changing. "

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Sound of Trees is an ecoscape that explores all natural materials as musical instrument. The beginning is an amplified river rock while grinding a sumi ink stick on it. Water pours and the ink spills onto the rice paper. Also features a maple copter kalimba and amplified driftwood.

Elements- Wood 1

Eleonor Sandresky/choreographic pianist

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