Reminds me of Arvo Pärt‘s compositions 

for violin and piano
performed by Ilana Zaks, violin and Anthony Ratinov, piano

This is a piece about change, gradual and sudden, noticed and unnoticed.

March 2021, recorded in Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music

The End of Seasons

eeanduh (for orchestra)

Performed December 9th, 2021 by the Yale Philharmonia and conductor Ryan Tani, Woolsey Hall, New Haven, CT

A procession of sights and sounds that walks, crawls, dances, and drags itself before disappearing into the distance.

Artwork by the composer
Recorded by YSM Media Production
Mastered by Jack Frerer

eeanduh (for orchestra)

For soprano, flute, oboe, double bass, percussion, & electronics.
 
Performed by Sharon Harms, Barry Crawford, Peggy Pearson, Greg Chudzik, Mike Truesdell, and Steve Beck. 

Conducted by Holly Druckman. 

Commissioned by the 2022 Brandeis Composers conference with support from the FROMM foundation.

hum house

灵介质 w/33de9

OHNE TITEL for 2 Violins
Composed by Jurg Frey

Jurg FREY: Ohne Titel (2 Violinen)

a piece about home and inhospitable bodies
for spoken word and 4 string players.

poem and performance by chrysanthe tan.

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Description: In 2015, I embarked on the longest tour of my life, one that took me out of school and around the world for almost a year. During that time, I performed in nearly 100 arenas and lived on a bus with 10 other people. I was terrified to go, not because of the shows, but because I feared losing my sense of home.

When I told my therapist I was feeling ungrounded and dissociated, she offered the following mantra: If you lived in your body, you’d be home. I repeated this mantra every day for the next ten months, scribbled it in notebooks, analyzed the hell out of it. While it certainly brought some comfort, it was not a perfect salve; I have never felt at home in my body. Since childhood, I have experienced a great deal of dissociation, evicting my body from my consciousness in order to ignore pain. I typically prefer to operate as a floating brain in space. While this coping mechanism has been a powerful asset in times of need, it has inevitably resulted in great intrapersonal alienation. I do not always feel at home within myself, unless I am performing. Still, finding home in my body remains a solid aspiration.

if you lived in your body (for violin + spoken word)

“Didi Mtebi”, (“დიდი მთები” in Georgian, “The Great Mountains” in English) is a song for three voices  in the style of Georgian vocal polyphony. I composed it at the end of my time teaching and studying in the Republic of Georgia on a Fulbright.

This performance was at the Ova Novi's "Where I've been, Not what I am" concert on April 29th, 2017.

Didi Mtebi At UO

All mute things speak today for soprano and double bass
Performed by Anika Kildegaard and Will Yager (LIGAMENT Duo)
May 2019, Cortona, Italy

All mute things speak today
by Anna Margolin

All mute things speak today
the blue murmuring of a wispy cloud falls like dew
lofty words from the great dreamers of old
rustle in the treetops
and fall on my heart
with every leaf and every star.
Can you hear it?
How the sand is quivering
under the lonely, slow tread of night?
Solemnly and grandly 
a rich chant peals forth
from the gray, shrouded stone.
And you, my dear, my dear,
you are silent.

All mute things speak today

Every sound produced by an initial attack goes through a stage of decay, and then perhaps lingering a little at a sustaining level, before it is released into silence. There’s something really poetic about what every sound has to go through. The attack is often what gets more attention, but somehow I am alway more drawn to beauty in the decaying of sound. Perhaps, because I am essentially a decaying body, there is something I can relate to. Perhaps dusk is beautiful in a similar way. 


performed by Kenji Bunch

written in May-June 2020.

Dusk(2020)

OGA

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