Great piece. Has continuity throughout, but interesting and varying changes within, returning themes and transformations, and hey, a dramatic climax. Bravo!

Live performance March 2016 in Brooklyn, NY

Points On A Compass for Bass Trombone and Piano

“A Choir of Sirens” explores and decomposes salient sonic features common to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, refashioning them into something recognizable but intriguingly altered. The piece asks the listener to re-experience the cities' sonic environments, revealing familiar elements in a new light as surprisingly harmonious, discordant, or somewhere in between. Birds and people transform into strange wild creatures, rain attacks in spatters, passing drones boil into an encompassing swarm, and the traffic and sirens of both cities eventually meld into an uneasily beautiful and overwhelming HORN-GASM (!!!). Of course, sirens also act as warning signals of impending danger, and we fail to heed them at our own peril.

“A Choir of Sirens” was written for Phase 2 of The Wil(helms|liams)burg project, AKA W-Burg, a 2017/2018 cross-continental collaboration between composers in Hamburg, Germany, and Brooklyn, NY. The source recordings for this piece were gathered in 2017 in both locations, and it premiered at the 48h Wilhelmsburg/blurred edges festival in Hamburg on June 9, 2018.

More information on the project:
http://w-burg.com/

Festivals:
http://musikvondenelbinseln.de/48h
http://www.vamh.de/index.php?what=blurred_edges&year=2018&gig=3562

A Choir Of Sirens

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Live interview w/ Rob Cosgrove about F-PLUS on WUSB Stony Brook (90.1fm)'s Experimental Radio, March 11, 2019. Ft. music by Howie Kenty, Roger Zare, and Liza Sobel.

F-PLUS Interview on WUSB Stony Brook

Post-tonal piano piece based on the octatonic scale

Performance by Julian Jenson on 11/02/2019 @ Florida State University.

Still Life in Four Movements (2019) for piano: III. Intermezzo | Julian Jenson

“Kamelle-on” (카멜레온) is the word for "chameleon" in Korean. Written for and premiered by Gamin Kang, saenghwang, for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Daegu, Korea (August 7, 2018), presented at the School for Music and Theater in Hamburg, Germany in a specially devised fixed media format, optimized for the unveiling of the Hochschule’s new $2 million Meyer sound system: 142 loudspeakers and 50 microphones; January 17, 2020.

Recording by Joel Gordon, Watertown, MA (recording on November 13, 2018; mastering on December 31, 2019, for performance at the School for Music and Theater, Hamburg, on January 17, 2020).

Kamelle-On for saenghwang and live electronics

Voices: Ann Heppermann and Jason Cady
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Howie Kenty, AKA Hwarg, is a Brooklyn-based composer of electro-acoustic prog-rock clockwork artsoundmusic, sometimes using visual and theatrical elements. Throughout all of his creations runs the idea that the experience of a piece is more than just listening to the music; he strives for a wholeness of vision and an awareness of environment that attempts to fully draw the audience into his works.


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