Embedding tangles

For violin and live electronics, first performance at Centre Pompidou, Ircam, Paris

Raggi di Stringhe

BODY MATTER [2015]
for amplified bassoon
Christopher Watford, bassoon [www.chriswatford.com]
Eric Fernandez, recording engineer
Recorded at the HUSEAC Studios at Harvard University

Please listen with headphones or good speakers.

BODY MATTER presents a soundworld caught in the middle of a metamorphic shift. The piece treats sound as a substance on its way to becoming an object, but in a form yet to be specified. It is encrusted and caked with earth and dirt; it is an organ whose membrane is gradually ossifying. At times it writhes; in others it obstinately maintains an effortful, concentrated reluctance to move. It is a thing in search of a body; a space in search of containment.

More info here: www.timothy-mccormack.com/bodymatter

BODY MATTER [2015]

Ensemble Pamplemousse premieres Alvin Lucier's December 12th at Issue Project Room, Dec 2013.

December 12th (excerpt)

spark (2015) for solo feedback/transducer/piano, performed by ernst surberg, at the BKA theater Berlin, September 2015

spark (2015) for solo feedback/transducer/piano

two high registered wood wind instruments flute and clarinet play 3 sections of 'arow interchanging'.
two instruments show many contemporary wood wind techniques.

arow interchanging for flute and clarinet (2011)

Knotting is a contemporary classical music for trombone, it shows many contemporary trombone techniques and implies
Korean traditional artisan's spirit.
It was premiered on Yanghee Kim's recital by Barrie Webb in 2009 in South Korea.

Trombone Solo Knotting performed by Barrie Webb (2009)

speckle(2016) - for amplified trumpet, trombone, violin and percussion [rehearsal recording].

Commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)'s First Page, for the 2016 Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival.

performed by ICE: 
Gareth Flowers, trumpet
Mike Lormand, trombone
Joshua Modney, violin
Nathan Davis, percussion

speckle(2016)-- for amplified trumpet, trombone, violin and percussion

Song#01 for flute and S.T.One - tetrahedrical sound diffusion, first composition of the suite PS, written with the composer Giuseppe Silvi, who has the figure of the sound engineer Piero Schiavoni as ideal and musical base.

Tetrarecording. HRTF encoding in flutist's point of view  

Score on Academia: https://www.academia.edu/23172541/PS_SONG_01_2015_

PS Suite: 
Song#01 for Flute and S.T.One [Citera]
Song#02 for Live Electronics [Silvi]
Song#03 for mezzosoprano, female chamber choir and live electronics [Citera - Silvi]
Song#04 for mezzosoprano, percussions and electronic sounds [Citera - Silvi]

Ps: SONG#01

… è solo un primo parziale tentativo di lasciar trasparire il paesaggio dietro a uomini, gesti e parole; un paesaggio che i più non avvertono e che, per il suo stesso desiderio di quieta intimità, non può essere notato da chiunque. Un potenziamento tecnico dei singoli rumori o delle luci produce un effetto ridicolo perché delle mille voci non ne fa risaltare che una, così che l'intera azione pende da una parte soltanto.

XXVIII. Questo giusto equilibrio che si rende al vasto canto dello sfondo si preserva solo ammettendone l'intera estensione… L'equilibrio può essere raggiunto solo attraverso una rigorosa stilizzazione…

XXIX. È quel che avviene introducendo un coro che quieto si dispiega dietro il tremulo scintillare dei dialoghi. Così il silenzio nella sua vastità e nel suo significato continua ad agire incessante, le parole, in primo piano, appaiono come il suo naturale compimento e il canto della vita può trovare una sua piena rappresentazione… 

… Credo tenacemente che tutto questo si debba considerare azione.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Appunti sulla melodia delle cose

nulla è pari @ Goethe Institut Rome, ArteScienza 2018. Alice Cortegiani Bass Clarinet

Giuseppe Silvi

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