Excerpt of the world premiere of Laurence Crane's 'Natural World' (2021) for soprano and piano/sampler (Mark Knoop). Performed at St Janskerk, Maastricht, on 25 September 2021 for Musica Sacra Festival; recorded by NPO Radio 4.

'Natural World' is the first of four new works commissioned by Juliet that respond to the work of Rachel Carson. The Carson Commissions have been generously supported by Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants, PRS Foundation's The Open Fund for Music Creators and the RVW Trust. 'Natural World' was co-commissioned by Musica Sacra and Oxford Lieder.

LAURENCE CRANE Natural World mvt 1. Field Guide (excerpt)

'long march crashed north of the maldives' (2021) is a piece for solo piano composed especially for the Canadian pianist Stephen Eckert.  It was first performed as a longer iteration at Ensemble Allure's concert 'PALIMPSEST' in January 2022, by Stephen Eckert.

This version, which is shorter than the version performed in January 2022, is the definitive version of the piece.

Stephen Eckert (piano)

long march crashed north of the maldives, for piano (2021, rev. 2022), perf. Stephen Eckert

improvisation on practise of a theme in Chopin's Nocturne in c#minor

improvisation after Chopin nocturne c#minor

vanitas, for saxophone ensemble (2021)

Performed by the University of Toronto Saxophone Ensemble (March 2022)

Photo: © H. P. McGowan

vanitas, for saxophone ensemble (2021), perf. University of Toronto Saxophone Ensemble

section X from Divisio Spiralis (2019)

JACK Quartet

February 25th-26th, 2021, Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York
Mastering engineer: Ryan Streber
Editing/Mixing: Christopher Botta and Christopher Otto

Catherine Lamb

Divisio Spiralis X (2019)

ekmeles:


Charlotte Mundy soprano · Elisa Sutherland mezzo-soprano
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek mezzo-soprano · Steven Bradshaw tenor
Jeffrey Gavett baritone & artistic director · Steven Hrycelak bass

premieres 2022

May 27, 2022 
The Crypt at the Church of the Intercession

Live recording by Craig Slonczewski

Ekmeles - Harmony for six voices

Mourning Dove - Blessings (Mdrgr-025) 

Format: 2xCS with additional insert

Layout and Design by O.R. 

Cassette edition available to order now! You can also buy the digital album at: Mourning-dove.bandcamp.com

Order: https://mdrgr.com
IG: @mdrgr

Blessings

Mourning Dove - I Don't Know

(best listened to through headphones)

playing as softly as audibly as together as possible; seeking total, quietest balance.

(piano study #2
of a collection of daily piano compositions)

watch: https://vimeo.com/445793597
website: https://lottiesadd.art/portfolio/piano-studies-2020-ongoing/

balancing and restraining (piano study #2)

Excerpt from "Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth". Commissioned and performed by Ordinary Affects (Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin), Laura Cetilia (cello), Luke Martin (electric guitar), J.P.A. Falzone (vibraphone) and Magnus Granberg (prepared piano) Recorded by Luke Damrosch April 2019 and released on CD by Meenna July 2020. Further information and digital copies available over here: https://meenna.bandcamp.com/album/come-down-to-earth-where-sorrow-dwelleth

Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth

Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow Dwelleth, excerpt 1

Fredrik Rasten - composition, adapted guitars played with e-bows

Recorded on February 17 & 18 2021

score:

http://fredrikrasten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Murmurations-VI-XII.pdf

Murmurations VII

A foretaste of the upcoming Album, winter 2021 (-OUS Records).
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Mastering by VFBM 
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Immersed in an amniotic atmosphere, we are invited to bathe in the atemporality of the world before birth.

Against a liquid sound background, horizontal sounds intervene that cross space at full speed, stretching time in their course. The speed with which they intervene has the effect of an arrow shot in the direction of a distant future, which brings us back to a linear, horizontal, narrative, historical time, that is to say, to the ordinary world perceived as a successive sequence of events.

The transparency and weightlessness of crystalline sounds act like seraphically elements that connect the fantastic and earthly worlds. At the same time, anecdotal sounds that remind us of specific moments in our lives cross our mind -- liquid, metallic, soft, subtle sounds -- and dense drones mingle to create an experience of their own, each one embedding itself in the personal experience of the listener.

From the beginning we were immersed in this atemporal amniotic atmosphere and then there was the birth, the irruption into the world, history began. We plunged into time to look for the origin, to deepen the story, to understand.

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H. P. McGowan is an award-winning composer and interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His music has been described by colleagues as ‘contemplative’, ‘expressive’, and ‘imaginative’, often bringing attention to sparseness, fragility, and environment. His concert music has been influenced by the aesthetics of the Wandelweiser Collective, the Cagean tradition, and the Canadian artist Jack Chambers.  His most recent music and research-creation projects involve just intonation, indeterminacy, and using methods of composing borrowed from early music.

H. P. earned a Master of Music in Composition degree from the University of Ottawa in 2021, during which time his research and creative activities were funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

H. P. co-founded Ensemble Allure, an interprovincial new music ensemble with chapters in Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, and Toronto (ensembleallure.com).  He serves as a board member at Ottawa New Music Creators (onmc.info).

In addition to his activities as a concert music composer, H. P. has operated a successful music composition and sound design service for linear visual media under his legal name (www.haydenmcgowancomposer.com).