Faith Brackenbury (www.faithbrackenbury.com) is a violinist/violist/vocalist of eclectic hybridism preferring to forego labels such as jazz, folk, classical but paradoxically fancies the avant garde and free improvising labels if needs must. She has therefore become embroiled in Silent Monkey as Oley me Tin(n)ks, and recruited three more women to make her ensemble, Sleenky Itomn. 
On baritone saxophone, K T Meennsoily (Alicia Gardener-Trejo) 
Keyboard, Sky Monelnite (Stella Roberts) 
Drums , Om Nnitskeley (Lydia Glanville).

Season: Summer  
Compass Point: South
Temperament: Sanguine
Element: Air
Musical References:  MkInyel's 'Spring', Scelsi's 'Uaxauctum' and Vivaldi's 'Summer' 

Oley say:
"In Summer Three I took the time stipulation of 5 minutes/ 300 seconds which when divided by 17, referencing the hiaku form, gave 17.647...Then taking the notes and harmony of every 17th bar of Vivaldi's Summer the piece is 17 harmonic pauses of 17 seconds long with each soloist in turn improvising on only the melodic notes in the bar. The mathematics did leave an 11 second remainder which we decided to leave as a pause on the last pause, finishing on exactly 300 seconds, or 5 minutes."

These versions of 'Summer Suite' are live recordings made on 7/8/17 (National Sisters Day) at the Four Susans Launch Event at Centrala, Birmingham. (see 'The Four Susans Launch Video')

Image: Omenn Skylite (www.photosbyphoenix.com )

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'Summer 3' - Oley Me Tin(n)ks performed by Sleenky Itomn

Faith Brackenbury (www.faithbrackenbury.com) is a violinist/violist/vocalist of eclectic hybridism preferring to forego labels such as jazz, folk, classical but paradoxically fancies the avant garde and free improvising labels if needs must. She has therefore become embroiled in Silent Monkey as Oley me Tin(n)ks, and recruited three more women to make her ensemble, Sleenky Itomn. 
On baritone saxophone, K T Meennsoily (Alicia Gardener-Trejo) 
Keyboard, Sky Monelnite (Stella Roberts) 
Drums , Om Nnitskeley (Lydia Glanville).

Season: Summer  
Compass Point: South
Temperament: Sanguine
Element: Air
Musical References:  MkInyel's 'Spring', Scelsi's 'Uaxauctum' and Vivaldi's 'Summer' 

Oley say:
"In Summer Two, I wanted to depict the element reference of Air, thus breathing heard at the beginning and end, on vocals and saxophone. The structure of the piece then took on Scelsi's tone oscillation ideas, the instruments warping the single note G in octaves.The final repeated section is a 5 bar cycle in 5/4 using 5ths, 7ths then 5ths to reference the haiku form, which crescendoes and introduces phrases ad lib imitating the Scelsi Uaxauctum."

These versions of 'Summer Suite' are live recordings made on 7/8/17 (National Sisters Day) at the Four Susans Launch Event at Centrala, Birmingham. (see 'The Four Susans Launch Video')

Image: Omenn Skylite (www.photosbyphoenix.com )

'Summer 2' - Oley Me Tin(n)ks performed by Sleenky Itomn (Demo)

Faith Brackenbury (www.faithbrackenbury.com) is a violinist/violist/vocalist of eclectic hybridism preferring to forego labels such as jazz, folk, classical but paradoxically fancies the avant garde and free improvising labels if needs must. She has therefore become embroiled in Silent Monkey as Oley me Tin(n)ks, and recruited three more women to make her ensemble, Sleenky Itomn. 
On baritone saxophone, K T Meennsoily (Alicia Gardener-Trejo) 
Keyboard, Sky Monelnite (Stella Roberts) 
Drums , Om Nnitskeley (Lydia Glanville).

Season: Summer  
Compass Point: South
Temperament: Sanguine
Element: Air
Musical References:  MkInyel's 'Spring', Scelsi's 'Uaxauctum' and Vivaldi's 'Summer' 

Oley say:
"In Summer One I have tried to infuse the essence of MkInyel's Spring compositions as well as incorporate part of the 5-7-5 haiku linked stipulation, by means of time signature. I found myself drawn to depict the temperament reference of Sanguine by the flowing 5/4 section."

These versions of 'Summer Suite' are live recordings made on 7/8/17 (National Sisters Day) at the Four Susans Launch Event at Centrala, Birmingham. (see 'The Four Susans Launch Video')

Image: Omenn Skylite (www.photosbyphoenix.com )

'Summer 1' - Oley Me Tin(n)ks performed by Sleenky Itomn (Demo)

With Leo Nitemynks as wordsmith, Stone MkInyel has been the musicjones of Silent Monkey since it was known as the 'Syringe Babies from the Planet Zyz' in the early 90's, before the 'wilderness years'. He's been known by various aliases including Mosey N.Tinkle and even Steven McDaniel (@steven-mcdaniel ) under which name he has set up and run Planet Zyz (www.planetzyz.com), that is producing 'The Four Susans'.

Season: Spring
Compass Point: East
Element: Water
Temperament: Phlegmatic 
Musical References: Soke My Linnet's 'Winter Suite', Vivaldi's 'Spring', and Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.

Spring 3 is scored for the same ensemble as the preceding movements, but with drums and percussion removed and the girls choir heard in 'Susan Sarong' added. They sing chords created from the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th degrees of scales built on either the white notes or the black notes. The leading voice moves chromatically, so the chords alternate between the black and white note scales to create chord sequences. Now the violin melodies are based on Vivaldi's Spring III,  and the vocal melodies on the final 1/3 of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'. The synth part now plays the tone row, with the fretless bass and left hand piano playing a pedal E and the right hand of the piano improvising around the chords. Now the loops are of 2, 3, 5 and 7 bars (the first 4 prime numbers), adding to 17, and again the same mechanism of selectively muting the loops is used to form the piece. At this point MkInyel is finally completely away with The Fairies.

'Spring 3' - Stone MkInyel (Demo)

With Leo Nitemynks as wordsmith, Stone MkInyel has been the musicjones of Silent Monkey since it was known as the 'Syringe Babies from the Planet Zyz' in the early 90's, before the 'wilderness years'. He's been known by various aliases including Mosey N.Tinkle and even Steven McDaniel (@steven-mcdaniel ) under which name he has set up and run Planet Zyz (www.planetzyz.com), that is producing 'The Four Susans'.

Season: Spring
Compass Point: East
Element: Water
Temperament: Phlegmatic 
Musical References: Soke My Linnet's 'Winter Suite', Vivaldi's 'Spring', and Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.

In addition 'Spring 2' is also heavily influenced by Philipp Gropper's PHILM, who showed early interest in the project, and provided a sneak preview of their most recently released album 'Sun Ship', as further stimulus(http://philippgropper.com/#/philm ). 

Spring 2 uses the same ensemble as Spring 1, with the addition of drums and fretless bass, as appearing in 'Susan Sarong'. The same tone row is now in  the bass part, built on  rhythmic piano stabs of 5's and 7's on 7/4 and 5/4. Now the violin melody is developed from Vivaldi's Spring II and vocal melody from the middle 1/3 of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'. The piece is structured by  looping  and then selectively muting  these layered parts, as before. By now MkInyel is clearly disappearing up his own backside.

'Spring 2' - Stone MkInyel (Demo)

With Leo Nitemynks as wordsmith, Stone MkInyel has been the musicjones of Silent Monkey since it was known as the  'Syringe Babies from the Planet Zyz' in the early 90's, before the 'wilderness years'. He's been known by various aliases including Mosey N.Tinkle and even Steven McDaniel (www.soundcloud.com/steven-mcdaniel ) under which name he has set up and run Planet Zyz (www.planetzyz.com), that is producing 'The Four Susans'.

Season: Spring
Compass Point: East
Element: Water
Temperament: Phlegmatic          
Musical References: Soke My Linnet's 'Winter Suite', Vivaldi's 'Spring', and Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.

Spring 1 is scored for Violin (representing Vivaldi), Soprano (representing Susan Giro), piano, synthesiser, and wood-blocks. The piece is based on a tone row that uses the 5 black notes,  then the 7 white notes, followed by the 5 black notes again, thus mimicking the haiku/hiKoo  5-7-5 form, and this is immediately heard in the piano part in 17/8. The Violin part, in 17/4, springs directly from a combination of the tone row with the melodies from Vivaldi's Spring I.  The Soprano part, in 51/8, develops in the same way with the first 1/3 of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'. The Synthesiser part uses the black notes. The wood blocks are in 1/4 note and 1/4 note triplets. The whole piece develops logically from all these parts playing simultaneously, repeating until all cycles return to the starting point. Then parts are muted selectively. To be honest, Stone MkInyel must have been out of his tiny mind.

'Spring 1' - Stone MkInyel (Demo)

Leo Nitemynks' impassioned ravings were such that one of the best bands to come out of Norway, 'Splashgirl' (http://www.splashgirl.no)  were moved to change their name to 'Soke My Linnet' and create a 17 minute piece of 3 movements for The Project:
Season: Winter                  
Compass Point: North
Element: Fire
Temperament: Choleric                    
Musical References: Me' Tin(n)ks 'Prelewd'; Vivaldi's 'Winter'; Sibelius 'Origin of Fire'

Winter 3: 'Vivaldi'  - Soke My Linnet (aka: Splashgirl)(Demo)

Leo Nitemynks' impassioned ravings were such that one of the best bands to come out of Norway, 'Splashgirl' (http://www.splashgirl.no)  were moved to change their name to 'Soke My Linnet' and create a 17 minute piece of 3 movements for The Project:
Season: Winter                  
Compass Point: North 
Element: Fire
Temperament: Choleric          
Musical References: Me' Tin(n)ks 'Prelewd'; Vivaldi's 'Winter'; Sibelius 'Origin of Fire'

Winter 2: 'Sibelius' - Soke My Linnet (aka: Splashgirl)(Demo)

Winter 1: 'Prelude' - Soke My Linnet (aka: Splashgirl) (Demo)

Faith Brackenbury (www.faithbrackenbury.com) is a violinist/violist/vocalist of eclectic hybridism preferring to forego labels such as jazz, folk, classical but paradoxically fancies the avant garde and free improvising labels if needs must. She has therefore become embroiled in Silent Monkey as Oley me Tin(n)ks, and recruited three more women to make her ensemble, Sleenky Itomn. 
On baritone saxophone, K T Meennsoily aka: Alicia Gardener-Trejo (www.agardenertrejomusic.com)
Keyboard, Sky Monelnite aka: Stella Roberts (www.soundcloud.com/stellaroberts)
Drums , Om Nnitskeley aka: Lydia Glanville.

'Prelewd' is based on a 17-note loop, supporting free melodies. This version is an arrangement by Stone MkInyel for the Football Crowd scene in the Prelude to the Four Susans Radio Edition. 'Prelewd' provided the initial inspiration for Soke My Linnet's (aka: Splashgirl) Winter Suite.

Image: Omenn Skylite (www.photosbyphoenix.com)

'Prelewd' - Oley Me Tin(n)ks (aka: Faith Brackenbury)(Demo)

Nitemynks' lyrics allude to the plight of Susan Giro, the elusive 18th Century character who was embroiled with Vivaldi, and now communicates through time with our 21st century protagonist Kolee ?Ynnit (Ms). Music and Lyrics are convoluted from Japan's 'Other Side of Life'.

'Susan Sarong' - Leo Nitemynks/Stone MkInyel (Demo)

Here Leo Nitemynks story of 'The Four Susans' begins and the main characters are introduced.  Nitemynks performs his work, as Sikment Loyne, Kolee ?Ynnit(Ms) and 'The Narrator'. 
Music: Stone MkInyel, Oley Me'Tin(n)ks (www.faithbrackenbury.com). Production: Planet Zyz (www.planetzyz.com).

'The Four Susans' Radio Edition - Episode 1: 'Prelude' (Demo)

SILENT MONKEY presents its work-in-process: 'The Four Susans',  a multi-media  farrango, spawned by the espresso-fooled sprawl to be found everywhere-yet-nowhere  in Leo Nitemynks's 'Thoughts of Koo'.
It's Words (Leo Nitemynks), Music(Various), and above all, Theatre. Vivaldi features, as do  The New City of Kelostemy Inn (precisely half way between Wembley Stadium and  Villa Park), Mantua (Italy), haiku/hiKoo, 17, 1717, 7, 5 and 2017.
Here, the Music-In-Process is presented. For more info see 'The Four Susans Launch Video'.

The Four Susans

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