Naxos released OCTET ensemble's album debut "Scatter My Ashes" on belarca records June 10. 

MUSICIANS

Music by William Susman
Poems by Sue Susman

Members of OCTET

Vocals: Mellissa Hughes
Saxophone: Demetrius Spaneas
Trumpet: Mike Gurfield
Trombone: Alan Ferber
Drums: Greg Zuber
Piano: Elaine Kwon
Electric Piano: William Susman
Double Bass: Eleonore Oppenheim

PRODUCTION CREDITS 

Produced by William Susman

Sound engineer and mixing: John Kilgore
Recorded and mixed at Kilgore Sound, New York City, September 2011 to January 2014

Mastering engineer: Alan Silverman
Mastered at Arf! Mastering, New York City

Additional sound engineer: Josiah Gluck
Additional mixing by Stephen Hart, assisted by Ana Sophia Dunham at The Site, San Rafael, California

Cover design by Daniel Sofer / Hermosawave

Photography by Ken Goodman
Cover image by Ben Swift

Scatter My Ashes

Deep

(2013)
"Power Walking Music" is a percussion ensemble piece for 8 - 11 players.

Performed by the Reinhardt University Percussion Ensemble in October 2013!

Power Walking Music (for Percussion Ensemble)

from 'Vantdraught 10 Vol. 1' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den225
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/kubakapsa]

Kuba Kapsa is a Polish pianist and composer being the leader of the avant-jazz combo Contemporary Noise Sextet (2006-2014). Beyond that he is a renowned composer for film and theater plays. His latest venture is the first of a sophisticated series of projects of modern classical music bearing the common title "Vantdraught".

The first part of the "Vantdraught" series is called "Vantdraught 10" written for ten classical instruments - 4 violins, 2 violas, cello, vibraphone, marimba and piano. The music is largely based on a repetition of individual melodic motifs, which are also quite multithreaded within a given composition. Vibraphone, piano and marimba are written in a “push-pull” combination, being the rhythmical base for every piece, while strings are instantly “questioning and answering” each other whether being supportive to the rhythm or used for the presentation of themes. The common feature of every composition is symmetry, which has been applied to almost every aspect - rhythm, harmony, motifs and themes. The first four pieces of "Vantdraught 10", which are inspired by the works of classical minimalists, early 20th century composers and 20th century Polish composers such as Steve Reich, Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varesè, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki or Wojciech Kilar, have been recorded in December 2014 with musicians from renowned Polish ensembles such as Neoquartet and Kwartludium at the concert studios of Radio Gdansk. "Vantdraught 10 Vol.1" will be released on Denovali Records in April 2015. For Vol. 2, which is following up, Kuba Kapsa will present a rather asymmetrical approach to voice leading and rhythm. 
"Vantdraught 10·Vol.1" features an astonishing artwork based on "Brotmorgendämmerung" (breaddawn) by the seminal artist duo Kahn & Selesnick.


Vantdraught 10, Vol. 1

Preorder / Buy

Kuba Kapsa Ensemble - No. 4

(2015)
"Down the Hatch, She Wrote" is for 1 person playing 2 toy pianos; one in each hand. Or, it can be performed as a duet! 

It's from "The Texture of Activity", 
a book of 55 short toy piano solos.

Olivia Kieffer, toy pianos

Also available in versions for:
Vibraphone duet
Solo piano
Viola and Vibraphone duet

Order the score by emailing livingcreaturespress at gmail.com

Down The Hatch, She Wrote (for William Susman)

Commissioned by pianist Susanne Kessel for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Recorded at WDR (German Radio), recording produced by Susanne Kessel.
déchirant is based on gestures in the second movement of Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata. I envisioned a young, modern Beethoven combining German art music with European techno dance music.
http://250-piano-pieces-for-beethoven.com/en/


250 piano pieces for Beethoven

déchirant

Audiotrailer of the new album The Piano Files II. 
Grab it at https://www.douweeisenga.com/en/shop/albums/the-piano-files-ii-new.htm

Album van Douwe Eisenga

The Piano Files II - Audio Trailer

Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Direttore Oleg Caetani

Orchestra

Senti l'eco (Hör auf das Echo) Aria per orchestra (1989)

Composed in 2002 using a permutation matrix | Scored for pizzicato strings and percussions | MIDI demo.

'X' | from 'Un'orchestra in permuta'

From "Ore diciotto in Punto" original soundtrack. 
Giovanni Sollima (cello) and Francesco Di Fiore (piano)

Ore diciotto in Punto (At Precisely Six O' Clock) a film by Giuseppe Gigliorosso. 
www.orediciottoinpunto.com

Ore Diciotto in Punto: STELLA (cello and piano version)

Francesco Di Fiore

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