Chris Wild - Abhanden

Ensemble SurPlus, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 19 August 2007

...à son dernier soupir

Throughout history, a common response to the complexity of human civilization has been an ascetic urge: to withdraw from society and lead a simpler life. 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' (“I am lost to the world”) presents and questions this timeless desire anew. Borrowing the Friederich Rückert text and a few musical quotations from Mahler’s orchestral song of the same title, the piece opens a window to a strange society of three parties – soprano, cello, and electronics – who attempt, slowly and paradoxically, to both integrate themselves with and isolate themselves from one another. 

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (entire)

Prelude to Act III of Jonestown: A Multimedia Chamber Opera. This prelude uses the song "Black Baby" from the album, He's Able, which was recorded and produced by the members of the Peoples Temple. 

To learn more about Jonestown, click here- http://www.evanwilliamsmusic.info/jonestown.html

Jonestown, Prelude to Act III, "Black Baby"

This is a live performance of my piece, Currents, for two alto saxophones, mallet percussion, and piano, from the SICPP 2011 "Iditarod" concert, June 25th, 2011. Zach Herchen and Philipp Stäudlin, alto saxophones; Ryan Packard, percussion; and Aaron Likness, piano

III. Beaufort Gyre (SICPP)

matt barbier & weston olencki
RAGE THORMBONES

01.12.2016
betalevel
los angeles, ca

m.b. (mix-master)

m. barbier gravlax [b]

Like A Language

In Columna is scored for chorus, 2 violins, cello, lute, and organ. The text (sung in Latin) is taken from Exodus 13:21 and 13:22:

21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

-Translation from The Holy Bible: New International Version

In Columna was commissioned by Seraphic Fire, Patrick Dupre Quigley, Artistic Director, in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (entire)

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