Elena Rykova: electric guitar, electronics
Etienne Nillesen: extended snare drum

7 fish in a desert is the first piece in our album, which is going to be released very soon. Stay tuned!

More info on the artists:
https://etiennenillesen.com/​ 
https://www.elenarykova.rocks/

Elena Rykova & Etienne Nillesen - 7 Fish In A Desert

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Verwüstung

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Commissioned and performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective

Part of a project called 'Five Uncertain Situations' with Prague City Gallery. Exhibition and concert at Dům U kamenného zvonu (Stone Bell House), Old Town Square, Prague in December 2022.

Bass clarinet - Anna Paulová
Baritone electric guitar - Ian Mikyska
Violin - Milan Jakeš
Double bass - Luan Goncalves

Mixed by Juraj Mišejka

This piece was written in response to a set of photograms from Aleksandra Vajd’s The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, which features two parallel lines, each changing colour halfway. To me this work is about things in flux, things moving toward or away from something else. In my piece, I am interested in how players might focus on periods of instability and change within and between sounds. By leaving the score more open, I hope to provide more space for the players to follow their curiosity and their ears, to be responsive to the sounds and to each other in the moment. - SL

"Sylvia’s piece is a rare occurrence: a simple, relatively undefined score that does not provide instructions for formal development over the entirety of the piece, yet immediately, the first time we rehearsed it, it was clear that the piece had a clear-cut character and a complex web of internal relationships. The simplicity and directness of Vajd’s photograms is here transformed into a focus on all the chaotic and noisy shadows, interferences, and byproducts that appear when players are tasked with exploring well-chosen, fluctuating effects and various transitions between them. Here, instability is always present at multiple levels — perhaps we could even speak of an interaction between instabilities, a dusty sonic layer covering the simple material play of the photograms." - Ian Mikyska

Overlapping Transformations (2022)

What You See In Me (prod. Axmy)

New album released.

「森と海」
Bandcamp page
https://satoshisugiyama.bandcamp.com/album/--3

----- caution ------
 I'm in the process of making the CD. I will send it to you by surface mail  as soon as it’s ready.


以下、アルバムについて。


「森と海がまじわるところ」

鬱蒼とした森の記憶を辿るように、レコーダーを手にし土と枯れ葉の小道を登る。
まず、その小高い森の中心と思われる場所で一度目の録音。
そして同じ場所でレコーダーのマイクを空に向け二度目の録音。
遠くに僅かに波音が聴こえた。

その音に誘われて、数日後、友人たちと森を抜け海に降り立つ。
岩場の潮溜りにハイドロフォンを落とす。
マイクを通して海中の音を聴くのはそれが初めてで、海の中から外の世界を見ているような気持ちになった。
小さな生き物たちの気配、波音と森のざわめきと
すべてがまじわるところに僕はいた。


※この録音を聴き返すうちに、10年前に三木葉苗が書いた「美の基準についての覚え書き」を思い出し読み返す。合わせて読んでももらえるといいなと思いこれを付属することにしました。

録音と編集　杉山聡
絵　三木咲良
言葉　三木葉苗

森と海 -Excerpts-

Gamut Cutups

Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
Makana Medeiros, Marimba

Performed on May 11, 2024 by the Civic Orchestra of New Haven
Samuel Hollister, Conductor
© 2024 Harriet Steinke

Marimba Concerto (Live)

http://www.justejanulyte.com/en/works/now-im-nowhere/

commissioned by and written for the Estonian National male choir for their 75-years celebration

"Now I'm nowhere, but wish
I could live in the North, where days
And nights, where sounds and colours
Snow and rain is one and all;
Where nature is not ours,
But we are of the nature; where everything, even the death
Is just one, continuous birth."

Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas (1919-2015)

"Dabar aš esu niekur, bet norėčiau
Gyventi šiaurėje, kur dienos
Ir naktys, kur garsai ir spalvos,
Sniegas ir lietus yra viena ir visa;
Kur gamta yra ne mūsų,
Bet mes gamtos; kur viskas, net mirtis,
Tik vienas, nenutrūkstamas gimimas."

16 November 2019, Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn (EE)

Marimba Concerto (Live)

Harriet Steinke, Composer

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