The blur within

I always wanted to write a song that featured a steam train of a harmonica solo in the spirit of Neil Young. The song is about living life on your terms.

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Why dont we sleep at night
Why do we hurt sometime 
Why dont you see that I 
I'll follow you
Why do I close my eyes 
And see sometimes
Why do I fall for you everytime

When Im on this earth
And I'm mesmerised
Colour me at night
Deeper from inside
There s a universe in these
Weary eyes
When I sleep at night it comes alive

Why are are we here tonight

Why Are We Here

In this piece the newly invented string instruments are playing in combination with flute, soprano voice and piano. The strings are being stretched between the beams of the mezzanine of the building and also hanging from the ceiling beams with heavy weights on them. The hanging strings surround the audience and musicians. A very special building HET VEEM (Van Diemenstraat 410, 1013 CR Amsterdam) - former warehouse, where the piece was premiered, inspired us to create these instruments and this composition. The concert was performed as a part of Toetsdestijds Concerten Series.

http://www.veem.nl/nl/p482c37cf9528d/het-veem.html

MUSICIANS

String players:
Julie Stalder
Frank Diamand
Linda Paulino
Jan van der Sangen
Noam Staal

Reciters:
Frank Diamand
Lara Diamand

Ensemble TRIODUO: 
Lara Diamand - soprano/reciter
Erica van den Berg - ( alto ) flute.
Georgina Collington - piano
http://www.laradiamand.nl/Lara_Diamand/TRIODUO.html

INSTRUMENTS created by: 
Hans van Koolwijk 
http://www.hansvankoolwijk.nl/index.html 
Jan van der Sangen 
http://www.toetsdestijds.nl/werk.html 

Lyrics by Omar Khayyam
Music by Igor Iofe 
http://igor-iofe.com/

Recording - Bart van Hasselt
Mixing/ Mastering  - Igor Iofe

I Came Like Water and Like Wind I Go Mov I - III

I have endured this pain that you've caused me
Now it's time that I finally

Burn the bridge
Watch it fall

Just like the clock, I'm going in circles
Back and forth, I relentlessly pace
You'd better pray to what you believe in
I don't discover your hiding place

Each and every time that I see you
I just want the memory erased

Burn my eyes
Burn my mind

Vs. The World

Deer God

Did you sleep well?!? muahhhhh \m/

Here's the energy as you'd expect it after a disruptive awakening!!

\m/ Love Music (always) and Stay Safe <3

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Remasters

Disruptive Awakening

This uplifting, mellow, jazzy semi electronic track has a distinctive harp-like lead melody which is carried by a monotonous bassline and groovy keys. The harmonic changes create suspense which is further emphasised by a varied song structure. This makes it perfect for fashion shows, commercials, exhibitions or documentaries. It's groovy vibe, cool demeanor and very varied instrumentation give it a somewhat sophisticated feel which makes it ideal for video production or -games.

Purchasing this track permits you to use it unchanged in your own non-commercial productions with an attribution to Covert Acoustics.

For commercial and derivative licenses, please visit our Pond5 profile where you can buy this track for a number of additional uses.
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Backtracks

Aloof

Springs Songs (for Tenor and Chamber Ensemble)
Duration: ca. 20'

MOVEMENTS:
I. English Sparrows (Washington Square) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
II. April 5, 1974 (Richard Wilbur)
III. Done With (Ann Stanford)
IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (William Carlos Williams)
V. Spring Rain (Sara Teasdale)

Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Alok Kumar, Tenor
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/composers/robert-paterson/
Purchase Sheet Music: http://billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?keyword=spring%20songs%20-&main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1
Also available as a version for tenor and piano: https://robertpaterson.com/spring-songs


PROGRAM NOTE
Spring Songs for tenor and chamber ensemble or piano is my third song cycle celebrating the seasons. As with the first two, Winter Songs for bass-baritone and Summer Songs for soprano, this cycle contains settings of poems by various American poets.

Whereas both Winter Songs and Summer Songs end with scenes in New York City, Spring Songs begins with New York: a setting of English Sparrows (Washington Square) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a poem about a scene that takes place in the morning in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in New York City where Millay lived in the early 1900s. The second movement is a setting of April 5, 1974 by Richard Wilbur, a poem Wilbur wrote in honor of Robert Frost’s one-hundredth birthday, and I interpret as being about overcoming self-doubt through wisdom, and about understanding the change of seasons, but also a change of mind. The third movement, Done With by Ann Stanford, I interpret to be about death and rebirth. Stanford symbolizes this by a house being torn down and the ground paved over, the now suffocated plant life yearning to break through. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime, the fourth movement, is a setting of a poem by William Carlos Williams. I interpret this poem as a modernist, pastoral elegy that uses images of nature to lament the death of a loved one. The final movement, a setting of the poem Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale, is about a happy memory of a lover brought about by an evening thunderstorm.

Spring Songs was commissioned by Rick Teller for the American Modern Ensemble.

AME ARTISTS
Robert Paterson, Conductor
Alok Kumar, tenor
Grace Law, flute
Nuno Antunes, clarinet
Samuel Z. Solomon, percussion
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Victoria Paterson, violin
Peter Sachon, cello

The Four Seasons

Spring Songs - IV. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime (Text by William Carlos Williams)

Retro - aKtive

Northern Stories

Until Next Time

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Sonido Ambiente

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