Beautiful playing and very involving composition.

Grain | Stream
for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists & electronics

Première:
October 22nd, 2023 - Donaueschinger Musiktage 

Performers:
Yarn/Wire
Russell Greenberg, Sae Hashimoto (Percussion)
Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer (Klavier)

The idea of stream recalled in the title and central in the piece has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie consists of two canvases showing a dry desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falling down from the balance’s dishes. 
That’s a strong symbol of a possible new life re-growing from the desert landscape which is directly connected with the art of alchemy transforming lead into gold.


On the other hand streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time until leading the perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosen.

Grain I Stream

"Ember" is an electroacoustic composition that serves as a sonic portrait of a profoundly inspiring period in my life. This piece reflects my time studying at the Gotland School of Composition in Visby in my early twenties. One of the most breathtaking places in Gotland is Högklint, a cliff reaching 48 meters above sea level located just south of Visby, offering a view of the Baltic Sea to the west and Visby to the northeast. Inspired by the image of this place, I created this piece. Through this composition, I hope to convey the deep connection I felt to both the place and a moment in time.

#Electroacoustic #SoundArt #AmbientMusic #DroneMusic #LoFi #NoisyMusic #Soundscape #Reverb #ExperimentalMusic #Gotland #Visby #Ambientdrone #BalticSea #Composition #SonicPortrait #Inspiration #LargeSound #MusicComposition #SoundDesign

Ember

Knock, knock, knock – making up personal pictures is a steady inner dialogue. Wether wrong or right pictures come up – the studied movements reminds me of a well trained shadowboxer.

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More on the 648th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Shadow Boxing — The Assignment: Employ shadow boxing as a musical metaphor — at https://disquiet.com/0648/

punching pictures (disquiet 0648)

white petals
on the stormy sea -
floating memories
 
Vincenzo, aka El Wud, is an electronic musician from Naples, Italy.

A regular participant in the Naviar haiku music challenge, El Wud uses sound overlaps, causal collisions and cosmic echoes to create evocative soundscapes.

Naviar's Marco translated Vincenzo's haiku from Italian, and made some minor variations.

haiku by El Wud: https://linktr.ee/el_wud

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http://giulia-lorusso.com
giulia.lorusso90@gmail.com
http://brahms.ircam.fr/giulia-lorusso

Giulia Lorusso is an italian composer based in Paris. 
She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory « Giuseppe Verdi » in Milan, with Alessandro Solbiati, and in Paris where she attended the Cursus IRCAM and completed a Master’s degree at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) in the class of Frédéric Durieux. 
She was a student in the generative improvisation class held by Vincent Lê Quang.

Her production includes both instrumental and electroacoustic works integrating new technologies and exploring the relationship between performer, audience and devices as well as the relation between sound and space.
Her music has been commissioned by institutions such as IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, GMEM de Marseille, Radio France, ProQuartet, Donaueschinger Musiktage  and performed by renowned musicians as Brussels Philharmonic, Quatuor Tana, Quatuor Ditotima, Ensemble 2e2m, United Instrument of Lucilin, Yarn/Wire.

Giulia  has been artist in residence at ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) de Karlsruhe, at the European University of Cyprus (EUC), at Royaumont Fondation (Incubator project), Fondazione Spinola-Banna per l’arte (Turin).
She is currently composer associated to the Ensemble 2e2m for the season 2023-2024.
She is recipient of the Prix SACEM Hervé Dugardin (2023).

Her catalogue includes interdisciplinary works exploring installations, interaction, experimental music theatre, collective composition. 
She collaborated with researchers (Alessandro Rudi of INRIA), philosophers (Emanuele Coccia, Rosario Diana), visual artists (Jessica Rimondi, Kesson Dalef), dancers and puppeteers (Amalia Franco).
Her interactive installation «Fabrica» has been part of the the «Réseaux Monde» exposition at Centre Pompidou (Paris) in 2021.

Giulia is also active as a teacher and pedagogue, she’s been professor invited for the first edition of the Académie MIXTE, organised by Proxima Centauri Ensemble in Bordeaux (France). 
She’s been teaching composition at the bachelor and master level in Italy at Consevatory of Pesaro  and Conservatory of Vibo Valentia .

Grain I Stream

Giulia Lorusso

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