soft

field recording, music box, piano, guitalele, feedback, cassette tapes

01.25.2014

Way Out

The Refraction of Light and Other Objects: Part II

This is what a music box sounds like to a music box

The sky is blue and the stars are shining

Antes del Comienzo (2013) for soprano and chamber orchestra
Text by Octavio Paz. This is a live recording of the premiere performance (Feb. 8, 2014) featuring Jacqueline Goldgorin (soprano), Magik*Magik Orchestra, and John Kennedy (conductor).

Antes del Comienzo for soprano and chamber orchestra

Commentary - for amplified water bottle and fixed media
Performed by the composer at Central Michigan University's MicroCHIP series (Nov 2013)

Commentary

A notated improvisation realized with the help of Matthias McIntire and Danny Clay
www.matthiasmcintire.com/
dclaymusic.com/home.html

Recorded Live at Zion Lutheran Church in San Francisco
September 15, 2013

Matthias McIntire, viola 
Danny Clay, piano 
Kyle Hovatter, piano

"communion music around A" featuring Matthias McIntire and Danny Clay

Little Things

Remix of Metallica- Nothing else matters 

Nothing else matters(Metalllica) - Episode Bootleg

"wake" by Danny Clay.
piano, voice and cassette tape
after a poem by Roy Doughty
written for and performed by Anne Rainwater, 11.19.14
Center for New Music, San Francisco

wake

Lacrimosa for solo piano was recorded in April of 2013.  I believe it is one of the most beautiful works Kirk has ever written and I love playing it. 

07 Kirk O'Riordan: Lacrimosa

Composed for the Trade Winds Quintet

I. Invocation
II. Surfaces
III. Sentinels
IV. Champions

Recorded by:
Merryl Monard, Flute
Alex Hayashi, Oboe
Clarissa Osborn, Clarinet
Caroline Steiger, Horn
Brandon Rumsey, Bassoon
Nelson Gast

Emblems for woodwind quintet

Serenade in C for woodwind quintet
Arranged by Bob Hughes
Recorded by Luis Escareño

Merryl Monard, Flute
Alex Hayashi, Oboe
Clarissa Osborn, Clarinet
Brandon Rumsey, Bassoon
Caroline Steiger, Horn

Serenade in C (1949) by Lou Harrison

oct2, 2016 - theorbo + processing

Karl's Song- Danny Clay & Kevin Villalta

MY GRAVE 
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

If, when I die, I must be buried, let 
No cemetery engulph me — no lone grot, 
Where the great palpitating world comes not, 
Save when, with heart bowed down and eyelids wet, 
It pays its last sad melancholy debt 
To some outjourneying pilgrim. May my lot 
Be rather to lie in some much-used spot, 
Where human life, with all its noise and fret, 
Throbs on about me. Let the roll of wheels, 
With all earth’s sounds of pleasure, commerce, love, 
And rush of hurrying feet surge o’er my head. 
Even in my grave I shall be one who feels 
Close kinship with the pulsing world above; 
And too deep silence would distress me, dead.

My Grave (2012) based on the poetry of Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Mexican born composer Luis Escareño (b.1989) began his formal music studies on Viola. His compositional writing reflects much of the world music he studied under percussionist Randy Gloss, with a particular musical emphasis on timbre, rhythm, pulse and elements of improvisation. In the spring of 2010 the Glendale Philharmonic String Quartet premiered his work, “Reflections of Lost Plains.” The piece was featured as part of the Glendale Philharmonic concert series, “Positive Motions.”

Luis has written and arranged for various ensembles and artists including Ruslan Biryukov,  Nonsemble 6, and Bunnies and Kitties. In 2013 Luis collaborated with the Bay Area guitar and percussion duo, The Living Earth Show (Travis Andrews, Andrew Meyerson), as well as Los Angeles based artist Christopher Mesa, to bring to life a multi-media work based on the book Bluets by Maggie Nelson. Currently he is working on a work for the Los Angeles Cello Quartet, as well as an orchestral work for John Marshall High School’s annual Bach Rock and Shakespeare festival (Greek Theater in Los Angeles)

Luis is a founding members of the bay area concert promoter SFNewMusic, where he serves as Artistic Director of their Sounds of the America’s concert series. He has also served as president of the LACC Composers Club, an organization which helps inner city youth acquire recordings of their compositions. Luis has performed in the Los Angeles area with folk artists such as Bunnies and Kitties, and Homesick Elephant. He has studied composition with Dr. David Conte, Dr. Kevin Kelly, Dr. Daniel Wanner and Dr. Matthew McGaughey, and Chamber Music with Christine Park. Viola with Keith Barry, and Alexander Kalman. Currently he resides in the Bay Area, studying composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Conrad Susa.

The Refraction of Light and Other Objects: Part II

Luis Escareño

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