Concert version for brass quintet and live electronics, commissioned by Shriver Hall. (Installation version for overhead wavefield synthesis and video projection commissioned by EMPAC.)

[there are subwoofer bass frequencies present - use good headphones or larger speakers for best effects, not earbuds]

Audio documentation of the world premiere performance.  American Brass Quintet at Shriver Hall, December 8, 2019. (P.S. this was premiered on my birthday, and it was basically the best birthday present ever - thank you ABQ!)

Program Note:
Spending time in the chambers of ancient ruins and the cavities of basilicas and churches has led to a fascination with the interaction of architecture, light, and acoustics in relation to the human spectator. The different window types (from oculus to clerestory to stained glass) guide our relationships with the spaces, recanting visual stories as they divert beams of light in paths of illumination throughout the course of the day. The same is true of the sonic qualities of these, often vast, spaces. Within "The Glow that Illuminates, The Glare that Obscures" I take the brass performance tradition of the madrigals and motets of Renaissance polyphony and pass sourced quotations through a compositional prism. The resultant fragments are illuminated and obscured in the composition through the use of antiphonal and heterophonic writing, density and silence.  Fragments of Josquin's Miserere, a spare and austere motet setting of Psalm 51, jostle our memory as they are stretched and ornamented throughout the ritualistic sonic space.

The Glow that Illuminates, the Glare that Obscures (2019) for brass quintet + elec (concert version)

Please use headphones or nice speakers with a subwoofer and keep in mind soundcloud, unfortunately, really compresses this file.

The electronics blooming from the acoustic in a symbiotic, intertwined creature like lichen.

Speaker Spit (2021-22) for large ensemble and electronics

BRIGHTER SUNS (2022) - for solo electric guitar and electronics

*IMPORTANT: you can listen to an improved version of this work following this link: juliozuniga.info/works/brighter_suns.html *


Nico Couck, electric guitar (Nadar Ensemble)
Live recording, May 21, 2022

BRIGHTER SUNS

by Miles Walter (2022)
Aspen Chamber Symphony (majority student orchestra; some faculty alongside), Nicholas McGegan, conductor
World premiere, rec. live July 8, 2022
Commissioned by Aspen Music Festival and School, Robert Spano, Music Director

This is the first movement of an incomplete, two-movement symphony.

I might never write anything that sounds like this again... but it was a joy to write, and I somehow feel that the way the architecture unites in the latter half of the movement justifies the borrowings and anachronisms of the whole...

[Walter] Symphony (2022), I. Broad, in flexible tempo

for cello, transducers, and sampler.
ensemble mosaik (Mathis Mayr and Ernst Surberg) live at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin.

Gravity and Center (cello + sampler)

recorded from Slate and Ash's Spectres onto cassette tape, then recorded the output of the cassette tape back into Logic Pro X

if Mahler made tape music

Commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble in August 2023; digital installation premiered the same month.

Griffin Brown - composition, all sounds; engineering; mix; master

Cycle

Wander Steps for two microtonals accordions played by the duo XAMP Fanny Vicens and Jean-Etienne Sotty (festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, commission 2018)

Wander Steps (2018)for two microtonals accordions

Beat Furrer - A Sei Voci

Composer, poet, drummer, songwriter+vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. 

This page is mainly for concert music and improvised/jazz work. My solo/studio/"song project" releases can be found in more codified form on my Bandcamp, linked below.

Profile photo by Cyrus Duff

Cycle

Griffin Brown

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