SO IT

What if the secret life of the machines that surround me every day grew suddenly louder, the way a part of the body cries out for attention whenever pain arises? I began to walk through my new and apparently post-pandemic city, where the quiet streets hummed again, and even the air seemed cut with a new intensity and purpose. This track begins with a late night calling, an uneven pulse, that summons a world of ticking gears and levers, underpinned with dark drones and stretched choral verses, as if despair was the necessary beginning of every joy.

Back In The Streets

Combined DIY hydrophone recordings from the workshop sessions "Something to Say" organised by Lakeland Arts at Windermere Jetty Museum, August 2022. Many thanks to Amy, Ian and the team!

Something To Hear Underwater

O.V.
https://soundcloud.com/faktor4/faktor4-modern-nature-4

Faktor4 - Nature 4 (Senglar Rmx)

Pre-order: 13th December 2022
Release date: 20th December 022
Format: Cassette, Digital

They met at the shores of the Licca. Oberlin came from the north, via
Augusta Vindelicorum, Xu from the south via Tridentum. Like travellers
of old on the Via Raetia just with the exception that their luggage
contained some electronic devices, Xu brought a couple of analog
synthesizers and some looper and fx pedals with him, Oberlin had a 9HE
Eurorack together with his sleeping bag on his back and a guitar under
the arm. Nights were quiet, you could hear the river flow and some
nightbirds from the trees. The two travellers did not want to disturb
the silence too much; instead they tried to take up the atmosphere
around them and to resonate it with their electronic and musical means.
So here you can listen to the musical diary of their time spent together
on this ancient roman street... and when the two parted, they knew it
was not forever. They would continue their journey sometime somewhere.

Xu & Oberlin would like to thank Andrea Porcu very much for his support
and for giving them a home on his beautiful label.

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previews. Xu & Oberlin - Via Raetia | Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series

LIVE RECORDING

EXAUDI
Emma Tring (soprano)
Lucy Goddard (mezzo)
Tom Williams (countertenor)
David de Winter (tenor)
Ben McKee, Simon Whiteley (bass)

James Weeks (conductor)

UK premiere
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
hcmf//
19 November 2022

recording engineer: Nicholas Moroz

Marea Flusso Deriva (Tide Flow Drift) is the opening madrigal of Il Libro dei Margini (The Book of Boundaries), a cycle, still in progress, dedicated to the different states of consciousness experienced during sleep: loss of consciousness, perceptions, dreams, the awakening, the quality of time and also the particular vocal behaviours, language and sounds of this particular situation. I wrote and edited the texts myself referring to everyday life, using reminiscences from Georgi Gospodinov and the Italian poet Alessandra Conte as well as transcriptions of personal dreams. 

Marea flusso deriva depicts the moment when we close our eyes and fall asleep. Echoes of the images and voices heard during the day overlap chaotically in our mind. Gradually, the disordered rhythm of these images and sounds gives way to the biological and cyclical rhythm of calm night breathing. Time dilates and we enter the dimension of night time, full of fictitious presences, remnants, mysterious epiphanies, giving rise to the enigmatic theatre of a dream.

Here, a vague threatening presence takes the form of a bull chasing us into an endless underground city where we try to escape. At the same time, a sentence condemns us to death and the city in which we are escaping turns into our own bowels. Once successfully escaped to the surface, we suddenly find ourselves on the shore of a calm sea where we are entranced by the song of a mysterious woman.

Lorenzo Pagliei - Marea flusso deriva (2022)

RIOT Ensemble, cond. Aaron Holloway-Nahum 

Distat Terra Festival 2022

Tränen und Ozeane (2022)

On last ices by Makholma shore with a swell from nearby open water. Four White-tailed Eagles, two Ravens and a few Crows are feasting waste fish left on the ice by a local fisherman 26/2/2023.

MKH8020 + SD702  AB 80cm, 24/48, no processing, +3dB in post.

Icy Swell - 26/2/2023 - with White-tailed Eagle and Raven

2023.05.19 Microbat Nocturne. Mallee Country. Late Autumn.

Extension (for solo cello), performed by Amy Jolly

Gris souris - Sophie Delafontaine - 2017

Ardoise noire de brune
Ardoise gris souris
Ardoise bleue de lune
Satin du matin
Velours de la nuit
Ardoise éblouie

extrait de « Ardoises » de Jacques Prévert

Gris souris

Since its debut in 2002, EXAUDI has emerged as one of Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Founded by James Weeks (director) and Juliet Fraser (soprano), EXAUDI is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK’s brightest vocal talents. EXAUDI’s special affinity is for the radical edges of contemporary music, at home equally with maximal complexity, microtonality and experimental aesthetics. EXAUDI celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 with major UK and international tours and new commissions from Matthew Shlomowitz, Joanna Bailie, Bryn Harrison and Aaron Cassidy, amongst others.

EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges support from the PRS for Music Foundation.

Lorenzo Pagliei - Marea flusso deriva (2022)

EXAUDI

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