This is a nice piece with balanced contrasting elements reflective of the title.

Fascinating composition. Great blend of instruments that set up a real feel of a gentle but constantly flowing series of disconnected simple thoughts.

Really expressing  the dream state as a child . Wonderful orchestration  and composition!!

This piece is wild! Wonderful, and perhaps terrifying!

Interesting use of your instruments and must say everyone is telling there own part in your track as a full story.

The bold percussion at the beginning and the immediately following whimsical percussion set the tone. I like the sense of a world with things happening around us with disparate elements connected with dream harmonies. The piccolo seems like the little child's mind.

Thanks for the request. Congratulations on the great recording quality and great performance from the musicians. The piece has great structure and length.

A truly classical piece of work, not your typical piece very well done

Chamber music/Ensembles

Things are not as they appear
This whole world is a hall of mirrors
Your reflection reflects back
and this abstraction is a reflection of that
I talk big game like I am smart
Big man, big brain, big cock, nice car
I am the reflection of the w(hole)
Abyssal compaction; gravity pull

Everyone in the world is pretentious
Showing off the dumb shit that they do
Everyone in the world is pretentious
Everyone, except for me and you

After-school Special tells you what to do
Tells you what to wear and what is cool
I am a dad joke with dad bod vibes
With daddy advice, enlightening your timeline
You see the adults are all children too
The child in me; perpetual youth
Flabby boy, under-employed, limp dick, scared sick
But you wouldn't know it 'cuz I hide that shit

Everyone in the world is pretentious
Showing off the dumb shit that they do
Everyone in the world is pretentious
Everyone, except for me and you

Everyone in the world
Is pretentious
Everyone in the world
Is pretentious 
Everyone in the world
Except for me and you 
.....yeah

Talent Show

Libretto by David Cote
Aria Featuring Cree Carrico, soprano
Full Duration: ca. 24'/ Aria Duration: ca. 5'
Full Instrumentation: soprano, baritone, bass-baritone, flute, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello
Commissioned by Triphammer Arts Inc. with The Arts at Grace and Society for New Music
World Premiere Recording (Live Performance): American Modern Ensemble, featuring Cree Carrico, soprano; Steven Stull, baritone; David Neal, bass-baritone; Universal Preservation Hall (UPH), Saratoga Springs, NY, June 18-19, 2021
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: www.billholabmusic.com
For more information: robertpaterson.com/cocoa-cantata/
Full Video: TBA
View Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/paterson_cocoa_cantata__score-perusal_
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ABOUT COCOA CANTATA
Cocoa Cantata is a 21st-century response to J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata, one of his secular cantatas, c. 1734. A mini-drama with colorful, comical roles for soprano, baritone, and bass-baritone, this work imitates Bach's instrumentation and explores politics and optics in the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry.

Two chocolate executives, one from a global brand, the other a boutique chocolatier, square off over a corporate takeover, when a food scientist introduces a scientifically engineered "Total Cacao." One bite of it, and each chocolate executive is transformed.

Cocoa Cantata runs approximately 22 minutes, incorporating arias for each character, duets, and a final trio. The tone is lightly satirical, with contemporary allusions to fair-trade practices, the chemistry and symbolism of chocolate, and the marketing of pleasure. Cocoa Cantata will be delicious to anyone who loves chocolate—or tries to control their craving for it!

PROGRAM NOTE
Cocoa Cantata is a 21st-century response to J.S. Bach’s Coffee Cantata. Written for soprano, baritone, and bass-baritone, the work explores politics in the multibillion-dollar chocolate industry. Musically, the piece imitates Bach’s instrumentation, but not his Baroque style. The paternalism of Bach’s secular cantata is replaced by a more evolved (yet humorous) attitude toward issues of patriarchy, fair-trade practices, and the marketing of pleasure.

Cocoa Cantata - Ambrosia (Soprano Aria)

The heart of Jupiter beats through the storms of an ancient planet. The giant of the ancients. Jupiter looms a mighty.

The Heart of Jupiter

Hey , check out my new song. I really like the Gutiar Part I made . 
What do You all think ?

New Summer Song

Driving on a highway
Reaching the next gig
Talking about what we're gonna do
Feeling like a rockstars
Squandering our money in
Alcohol.              Mexico City, December 2019

Adro the Toxic Waste and John Page Contraband (music)
Kyle Cleveland (cover art) via unsplash

Ded. to my big brother Ren Ex, rest in power kicking asses..

Alcohol (demo)

Compuesta hace años, es un viaje a mis comienzos esta mezclada de nuevo y creo que esta vez, si que se parece al sonido que buscaba en un principio.

Viaje De Regreso

It is the streets and canals of Amsterdam in the Autumn. Melancholic tunes of street musicians, atmosphere of loneliness and light nostalgia slowly embracing you while getting lost..

Seven very talented young composers of today made an interdisciplinary program in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ working together with the Nieuw Ensemble, as well as various artists, from an actress to a jazz singer. Brand-new compositions, a sound sculpture, music-theater, were all presented in the Great Hall, offering to the audience an exciting glimpse of 2014′s new music scene.
 
The Nieuw Ensemble, Yoshiaki Onishi, Emre Sihan Kaleli, Mátyás Wettl, Igor Iofe, Flora Koene, Felipe Ignacio Noriega and Kate Moore presenting An Evening of Today.

https://soundcloud.com/nieuw-ensemble

Harrie Starreveld, Shakuhachi https://soundcloud.com/h-starreveld
Sarah Jeffery, Paetzold Recorder https://soundcloud.com/sarahjeffery
Igor Iofe, Piano https://soundcloud.com/igor-iofe
Herman Halewijn, Percussion 
Tristan Renfrow, Percussion
Hans Wesseling, Mandolin
Helenus de Rijke, Guitar
Ernestine Stoop, Harp
Rob Dirksen, Double Bass

http://aneveningoftoday.com/
http://www.muziekgebouw.nl/agenda/Concerten/2499/Nieuw_Ensemble/An_Evening_of_Today_2/

Cover image ©PavlovNM

Streets..

This piece was written specially for the second edition of the "Omnibus Laboratorium" in Tashkent in August 2006. The piece was inspired by Georg Heym's Berlin I:

Beteerte Fässer rollten von den Schwellen 
Der dunklen Speicher auf die hohen Kähne. 
Die Schlepper zogen an. Des Rauches Mähne 
Hing rußig nieder auf die öligen Wellen. 

Zwei Dampfer kamen mit Musikkapellen. 
Den Schornstein kappten sie am Brückenbogen. 
Rauch, Ruß, Gestank lag auf den schmutzigen Wogen 
Der Gerbereien mit den braunen Fellen. 

In allen Brücken, drunter uns die Zille 
Hindurchgebracht, ertönten die Signale 
Gleichwie in Trommeln wachsend in der Stille. 

Wir ließen los und trieben im Kanale 
An Gärten langsam hin. In dem Idylle 
Sahn wir der Riesenschlote Nachtfanale. 

Berlin I

Asterism

re-edited drum loop and emphasised guitar - nice track wrtten in about 2 hours during LockDown.  Enjoy

Fiat Lux

'Child's Dream' for piccolo flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola, percussions and piano has been performed live during the New Music Arena at the Conservatory of Amsterdam on the 1st of April 2010.

piccolo flute - Karolina Ogrodowska
bass clarinet - Rafael Rascón Barberá
violin - Anna Britala
viola - Katya Woloshyn 
percussions - Laurent Warnier
piano -Anne Veinberg 
conductor - Herzog Konradin

Child's Dream

Original composition.... Alejandro Gonzalez M.

Angelik Lament

This piece was inspired by and written for my classmates in conducting class taught by Lucas Vis:

Ella van der Woude voice, Jakob Lundbak alto saxophone, Jesper Ankarfeldt tenor saxophone, Eren Önsoy piano, Lennart Altgenug piano, Kristijan Krajnčan cello, Markus Larjomaa trombone, Igor Iofe conducter. It was performed at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam on the 6th of December 2012

The Crucial Point

A Day Like Any Other

Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series

Child's Dream

Igor Iofe

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