Hans Tammen's Dark Circuits Orchestra, this time consisting of 20 musicians playing analog synthesizers, will play orchestra pieces of Phill Niblock (and the drone pages of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise, which are not part of this playlist).

With Lucie Vitkova, Marcia Bassett, Teerapat Parmongkol, Alex Zhu, Luke Dubois, Emad Jamal, Monica Rocha, Shoko Nagai, Crystal Penalosa, Chuck Bettis, Kamran Sadeghi, Michael Schumacher, David Galbraith, Daniel Neumann, David First, Abby Davis, David Rothenberg, Daniel Neumann, Ben Manley, Miguel Frasconi, Andrew Neumann, Laura Feathers & Hans Tammen. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya.

Phill Niblock: 2 Lips (2008)

Phill Niblock: Baobab (2011)

Live at the SUGARCUBE, South Street Seaport District, curated by 100mRecords. With Shelley Hirsch (voice), Matthew Ostrowski (electronics), Mari Kimura (vio), Sarah Bernstein (vio), Jason Hwang (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cello), Ned Rothenberg (cl, bcl), Michael Lytle (cl, bcl, contra bass clarinet), Briggan Krauss (as, baritone sax), Chris McIntyre (trombone), Shoko Nagai (kb/moog), Josh Sinton (baritone sax, bassclarinet, contrabassclarinet), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composition, conducting, concept).

Third Eye Orchestra at the SugarCube: Abiogenesis IV (2)

Hans Tammen - acoustic guitar
Dominic Duval - acoustic bass
Recorded 1999 at Hillside Sound Studio, NJ
Recording Engineer: Dave Kowalski

Intersection

Dafna Naphtali - laptop, OP-1
Hans Tammen - laptop

"The musicians wander around structures that glitter as pure diamond and sound absurdly periphrastic at once... [they] exploit the single members’ total attentiveness in relation to the procedural possibilities, accomplished contortions crowded with sparse culminations, stomach-churning sneering and breathtaking apogees." Massimo Ricci (Brain Dead Eternity)

Mechanique(s) at TransPecos (Excerpt)

Excerpts from Roulette concert June 2017. The orchestra performs CLEPSYDRA, a score that draws from electronic music experience to write for chamber ensemble, in that it is entirely produced from electronic sample-and-hold procedures. 

Excerpt IV (Part E) features solos (in order of appearance) by Ned Rothenberg, Shelley Hirsch, Sarah Bernstein, Nick Didkovsky and Dafna Naphtali.

With Shelley Hirsch (voice), Dafna Naphtali (live sound processing, voice), Sarah Bernstein (vio), David Soldier (vio), Jason Hwang (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cello), Ned Rothenberg (cl, bcl), Michael Lytle (cl, bcl), Briggan Krauss (as, baritone sax), Josh Sinton (contra bass clarinet, baritone sax), Ursel Schlicht (p), Gordon Beeferman (organ), Shoko Nagai (moog), Nick Didkovsky (g), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composition, binary conducting).

Video recording by Carlton Bright and Amanda Shaperson, audio recording by Brendan Reilly & Sarah Peterson at Roulette.

Clepsydra is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Carl Jacobs Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

http://tammen.org/third-eye-orchestra/
http://tammen.org/background-on-clepsydra/

Hans Tammen + Third Eye Orchestra Roulette 2017 (Excerpt IV / Part E)

Excerpts from Roulette concert June 2017. The orchestra performs CLEPSYDRA, a score that draws from electronic music experience to write for chamber ensemble, in that it is entirely produced from electronic sample-and-hold procedures. 


Excerpt I (Part C) features solos (in order of appearance) by Ned Rothenberg, Shoko Nagai, Nick Didkovsky, Shelley Hirsch, Dafna Naphtali, Briggan Krauss and Josh Sinton.

With Shelley Hirsch (voice), Dafna Naphtali (live sound processing, voice), Sarah Bernstein (vio), David Soldier (vio), Jason Hwang (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cello), Ned Rothenberg (cl, bcl), Michael Lytle (cl, bcl), Briggan Krauss (as, baritone sax), Josh Sinton (contra bass clarinet, baritone sax), Ursel Schlicht (p), Gordon Beeferman (organ), Shoko Nagai (moog), Nick Didkovsky (g), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composition, binary conducting).

Video recording by Carlton Bright and Amanda Shaperson, audio recording by Brendan Reilly & Sarah Peterson at Roulette.

Clepsydra is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Carl Jacobs Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

http://tammen.org/third-eye-orchestra/
http://tammen.org/background-on-clepsydra/

Hans Tammen + Third Eye Orchestra Roulette 2017 (Excerpt I / Part C)

Excerpts from Roulette concert June 2017. The orchestra performs CLEPSYDRA, a score that draws from electronic music experience to write for chamber ensemble, in that it is entirely produced from electronic sample-and-hold procedures. 

Excerpt III (Parts A + D) features solos (in order of appearance) by Tomas Ulrich, Shelley Hirsch + Shoko Nagai, Sarah Bernstein and Gordon Beeferman.

With Shelley Hirsch (voice), Dafna Naphtali (live sound processing, voice), Sarah Bernstein (vio), David Soldier (vio), Jason Hwang (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cello), Ned Rothenberg (cl, bcl), Michael Lytle (cl, bcl), Briggan Krauss (as, baritone sax), Josh Sinton (contra bass clarinet, baritone sax), Ursel Schlicht (p), Gordon Beeferman (organ), Shoko Nagai (moog), Nick Didkovsky (g), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composition, binary conducting).

Video recording by Carlton Bright and Amanda Shaperson, audio recording by Brendan Reilly & Sarah Peterson at Roulette.

Clepsydra is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Carl Jacobs Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

http://tammen.org/third-eye-orchestra/
http://tammen.org/background-on-clepsydra/

Hans Tammen + Third Eye Orchestra Roulette 2017 (Excerpt III / Parts A + D)

Excerpts from Roulette concert June 2017. The orchestra performs CLEPSYDRA, a score that draws from electronic music experience to write for chamber ensemble, in that it is entirely produced from electronic sample-and-hold procedures. 

Excerpt II (Parts B + E) features solos (in order of appearance) by Michael Lytle, Shelley Hirsch, Satoshi Takeishi, David Soldier, Dafna Naphtali, Ursel Schlicht, Shelley Hirsch, Jason Hwang, Shoko Nagai and Dafna Naphtali.

With Shelley Hirsch (voice), Dafna Naphtali (live sound processing, voice), Sarah Bernstein (vio), David Soldier (vio), Jason Hwang (vla), Tomas Ullrich (cello), Ned Rothenberg (cl, bcl), Michael Lytle (cl, bcl), Briggan Krauss (as, baritone sax), Josh Sinton (contra bass clarinet, baritone sax), Ursel Schlicht (p), Gordon Beeferman (organ), Shoko Nagai (moog), Nick Didkovsky (g), Satoshi Takeishi (perc), Hans Tammen (composition, binary conducting).

Video recording by Carlton Bright and Amanda Shaperson, audio recording by Brendan Reilly & Sarah Peterson at Roulette.

Clepsydra is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Carl Jacobs Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

http://tammen.org/third-eye-orchestra/
http://tammen.org/background-on-clepsydra/

Hans Tammen + Third Eye Orchestra Roulette 2017 (Excerpt II / Parts B + E)

Euclidian Horns was originally written in 2016 for the horns of the ships in the harbor of St. John’s, Newfoundland. The sound in the bowl-shaped harbor carries for up to 12 miles. The piece was written for a maximum of 7 ships, but as on the day of the performance only 4 ships were available. For an 8-channel installation at Sounds Over Time Festival / Electromuseum Moscow, Russia (May to August 2019) I recreated the 7 voices of the piece using my Buchla Music Easel. This is a stereo downmix.

You can listen and see the  original version for ship's horns here: https://youtu.be/WF9_WhPJb_U

Euclidian Horns (Buchla Version)

Adrift between the earth and sky
I call to the east and change it to west.
I flourish my staff and return once again 
To my source.
Katsu! 
[Shun'oku Soen 1611]

Recorded 2020, Sound sources: binaural rendering of a recording made by throwing an ambisonics recorder into the compartment of a moped, driving around the streets in NYC. Plus Buchla Music Easel. #oneononecyland

Between the Earth and Sky

Hans Tammen creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also quiet pulses and barely audible noises - through means of his ENDANGERED GUITAR and interactive software programming, by working with the room itself, and, as a critic observed, with his "...fingers stuck in a high voltage outlet". Signal To Noise called his works "...a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage", All Music Guide recommended him: "...clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s."

His numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in 2009 for the ENDANGERED GUITAR - a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to control interactive live sound processing. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing are inspired by Earle Brown's Available Forms, and based on numerous scored "building blocks" that are constantly rearranged when performed.

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