for solo cello & tinfoil speaker sculpture

performed by Nick Photinos October 10, 2023 at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University

CRINKLE CUDDLE CRUMPLE CRUNCH

vocoder experimental cover of river by joni mitchell. raw and unfinished.

river (vocoder cover)

lyrics:
i still think about the girl on fire
trapped inside inferno of her mind
it seems as if she couldn't help but share it
pent up burning far too hot to hide

her mind could ebb and flow like running water
her frozen heart impeding all the blood inside her veins 
no heat could melt that stone, but if she bothered to try
maybe underneath the layers of the ice
she'd be kind

i'm not sure if she's fine
if she's alright 
if she's home safe tonight 
but i was there for all those times
i pulled her out from her fire 
until my hands were blistered and scared 
until my mind was cloudy and dark

girl on fire

written and performed by Lucy McKnight (voice/cello) with So Percussion at Princeton University, May 15, 2024

!&_+~_~+_&! (grief song)

“presence of your absence” is a swirling wordless grief gremlin. It’s a singing through the heaviness, a holding of all sorts of absences that weigh thick upon me. The loss of my father, my cat, my partner’s father, one of my first composition mentors. The difficulty of tending to a romantic partnership aching with distance—both geographical and emotional. It’s a stumbling, reaching for grounding, reaching for joy, for pleasure.

written for myself and Ensemble Klang for the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, September 2024.

presence of your absence - Lucy + Ensemble Klang

frogsong

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter XXXIII. Breathing-Sinking by Patrick Russell.

Tracklist:
1. Mika Vainio - Monumentti
2. Aleksi Perälä - UK74R1406060
3. Panabrite - Lagoon Resonance
4. Anthony Manning - Islets In Pink Polypropylene 1
5. Anthony Manning - Islets In Pink Polypropylene 2 
6. Ann Lislegaard - The Space Between Us
7. Ester Brinkmann - Leichte Schwere
8. The Caretaker - No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them To This Day
9. Wolfgang Voigt - 10'04"
10. Füxa - Overture 2 
11. Cosey Fanni Tutti & Philippe Petit - Mist While Sleeping
12. Joey Beltram - Girk
13. CoH - Spiritoso, Con Amore
14. CoH Plays Cosey - Sin-King
15. Max Loderbauer - Slowrag
16. Imaginary Softwoods - Untitled

https://soundcloud.com/mentalux

Mysteries Of The Deep XXXIII - PATRICK RUSSELL | BREATHING-SINKING

Souls in Space

The Gardens Between The Pillars

The Gardens Between the Pillars is one of five movements of The Elemental Cycles, where each cycle uses a primary element as the principal character.  In fact, all five cycles are considered works for “cinema for the ear.”  For this cycle, the sole element used is wood, including sound images pertaining to wood.  There are books and creaky doors, wood surfaces where steady and irregular footsteps walk, the flow of trees pertaining to The Pillars, as well as divine and earthly creatures, and pure and warpy, rough music to accompany this cinema for the ear.

The Gardens, first and foremost, are made up of interior and exterior scenes, motions and projections, and the emergence of figurative and explicit sounds from the decentralization of The Pillars.

In search of a narrative, doors open and close, pages turn,
The duality of images that represents:

Theory and Knowledge
Beauty and Violence
Life and Death
Temptation and Enlightenment

The duality of these sound-images contains the same motion ‘not two’: Advaya
The Pillars points at transcending this duality through 
The reallocated sound images, sound function, and motions
As ways to navigate The Gardens Between

The Pillars¬ are the paths, which reveal the interconnection of the natural, the inter-complexity of the nurtured, and the intervening of scenes through insertion
Which often feel that what is represented is horrific and cruel

We recognize from the far plane The Gardens as a gestalt labyrinth
Up close we perceive the many, many paths and narratives
Between The Pillars, we are presented implications of sounds that have neither beginning nor end

A wanderer severed from illusion in the infinite forest
An area of the Everblossom trees, a life of fleeting beauty 
It is the worldly sculpture of the Bas and High-Relief 

Realms of the Divine and Mortal

An immersion of boundless rhizome—a chiasmus of sonic ascription
An immersion of all materials of wood perceived 
A duality must be understood to walk the way broadly 
And you will hear it in everything 


The Gardens Between The Pillars

Composed for "Because," a new book by Mo Willems with illustrations by Amber Ren.

The Cold

Carousel is an odd ride. As the horse glide un and down
down, it spins… slowly… gently… ?
It goes
round and round, enchanting us,
spinning us,
still going round and round.
Yet, it is a joyous ride, a cheerful ride.
Frozen in time,
quickly, tilting the world upside down.
Flowing time brings us back.
-Yeonsuk Jung

frogsong

gian-tj

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