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Estonian bagpipes: Katariin Raska, Ulvi Võsa, Karolin Vetevoog, Kaisa Kuslapuu, Mari Meentalo, Kerli Kislõi
Premiere recorded by Estonian Classic Radio, 01.05.2023
Be it lines of force or a forgotten contact between the earth and our bodies, the essential point of support.. Earth veins as vital paths with oscillating and resonant intersections? 
Following the events of last February in Southern Turkey and  Western Syria, the earth once again showed also its destructive power, the effects of which are also echoed in this work.
a review by Simon Cummings: https://5against4.com/2023/05/30/estonian-music-days-2023-part-3/

Earth Veins for 6 estonian bagpipes (2023)

Premiered March 2, 2025 in Auer Hall by loadbang

Streams

https://kianravaei.com/works/all-the-sounds-around-her/

0:00 - I. Call and Response (Bars 23–126)
2:26 - II. Counting Game (Bars 1–96)
5:26 - III. Ella (Bars 22–39)

Premiered May 18, 2025 at Hoff-Barthelson Music School Music of Our Time Festival
Westchester Children's Chorus and Hoff-Barthelson Music School String Orchestra; Leandro Gazineo, conductor

Commissioned by Hoff-Barthelson Music School in association with Copland House

Program Note:

All the Sounds Around Her is a personal tribute to Ella Jenkins, whose many albums of children’s songs have brought multicultural understanding to generations of young people. When I started writing this piece, it was to celebrate her 100th birthday, but in the midst of composition she passed away unexpectedly. I decided to embrace the original celebratory intent, allowing her legacy of joy and connection to remain at the heart of the music.

The first movement, which follows an instrumental overture, incorporates Jenkins’s signature call-and-response singing as well as her tradition of writing lyrics that evoke both work songs and children’s tunes. Drawing on my experience as a member of the UCLA Latin Jazz Big Band, I incorporated elements of Afro-Cuban music, one of her major musical influences.

“Counting Game,” the second movement, invokes one of her favorite activities: counting from one to ten in different languages. Each language in this movement is one that Jenkins taught.

The final movement is a meditation on her name, drawing on a refrain from Dr. Ty-Juana Taylor’s children’s book A Life of Song, The Story of Ella Jenkins: “Ella soaked up all the sounds around her.”

All the Sounds Around Her (2024) for SSA chorus and string orchestra [EXCERPTS]

Hannah Ishizaki Fractured Transformations

Soundscape for the journey to the Stone House nestled within Forest Park along Lower Macleay Trail — Bora Yoon's spooky, site-specific soundscape — excavating memory, and bringing to life place-based storytelling along the wooded path.

Created under the light of the last full moon, instrumental forces of Bora Yoon’s soundwalk to the Witch’s Castle includes voices, whispers, EMF electromagnetic frequencies and disturbances; waterphone, walkie-talkies, heartbeats, water, modular synth, Tibetan bowls  and viola. 

Loops and diagetic themes for characters create an immersive, visceral, and dynamically processed electroacoustic soundscape that activates lived histories and haunted narrative of Danford Balch. 

For guidebook and more information visit
https://www.thirdangle.org/bora-yoon-soundwalk


Credits:
Instrumentation: voices, whispers, EMF electromagnetic frequencies and disturbances; waterphone, walkie-talkies, heartbeats, water, modular synth, Tibetan bowls, viola.

Featuring original works:

“Seek and Find”
Composed by Bora Yoon | Poetry by Rumi
Sung by Voices of Ascension and Modern Medieval

“STCTS”
sometimes things change things sometimes
By Bora Yoon and Ben Frost

“Of Matter and Mass”
Duration sound installation by Bora Yoon

“One Light: Gospel of Mary Magdalene”
By Bora Yoon
Sung by Musica Viva
Renee Louprette, organ

Original sound design and music
Excerpts from album Sunken Cathedral (Innova, 2014)

Presented by
Third Angle New Music
The World Forestry Center
October 2025
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Special thanks to
Musica Viva
Voices of Ascension
Modern Medieval
Four/Ten Media | Princeton Music
Haunted Homicide Podcast

Sarah Tiedemann, Evan Lewis, Will Pyle
Annie March
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(c) Bora Yoon Music. All Rights Reserved.
Commissioned by Third Angle New Music 

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www.borayoon.com

www.thirdangle.com/soundwalks

Streams

Emilio Singleton