A fictitious competition where 99 of the 100 competitors in a squiggling competition perish. Somewhat inspired by the Dancing Plague of 1518 and Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery".

The original version had more vocals, but a decent portion of them were scrapped for the reupload.

Sinny: percussion (shakers, caxixi, cabasa, tambourines, triangle, finger cymbals, cowbells, jam block, rototoms, djembe, vibraslap, helix bowl, The Night Cricket, brake drum, slit drum, frame drum, flexatone, ratchet, thunder tubes, xylophone, marimba, orchestral chimes); drum kit, kalimba, synthesizers, dobro, samba whistle, bulb horn, sound sticks, vase, chair, voices; synth, drum, and percussion programming

Squiggle Till You Drop

Medicine Prelude

Final version: This best captures the day I just had.

...my own version of a 'Smoke Rings'

Summer - Day - Together

Composed 2017, recorded July 2023

Bernhard Plagg - trumpet 1
Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet 2
Lionel Speciale - horn
Vladimir Vereś - trombone
Fabian Neckermann - tuba

Sound recording in the studio of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, 2023
Sound engineer: Benjamin Ostarek

Program Note
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) was created on the occasion of a composition competition for brass quintets announced by the publishing house Furore Verlag in 2017.
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to record the piece in a recording studio and to make it available to the public. The trumpeter Bernhard Plagg was kind enough to take on the project. He put together a brass quintet, organised rehearsal dates, etc.
The composition consists of two elements that alternate or interpenetrate each other. On the one hand, composed, notated music, harmonic and rhythmic in the broadest sense. And on the other, improvised music, mainly consisting of differentiated, nuanced noises and representing a kind of random music, like random sounds in nature.

Tagundnachtgleiche for brass quintet

Friction n° 20

Full length - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/the-day-when-winter-and-spring-intersect

A short 60-minute trip for the day when winter and spring will soon intersect.

The same sound goes on forever. There is no development in this song.

I love those days when the seasons intersect, when it's not spring and it's not winter.
And I've always loved drone ambient, which has neither subjectivity nor development.

Hirotaka Shirotsubaki

The Day When Winter And Spring Intersect - Sample

engaging random ring modulated tones via the breath and articulation of my shakuhachi.

Ring Mod Dialogue

ordinary feelings

part of the album "ta vira"
bernhardweiss.bandcamp.com/album/ta-vira

Ideas

DR0000 0170

Dead In Space

Kobe Japan.
mail h.shirotsubaki@gmail.com
https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/music

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The Day When Winter And Spring Intersect - Sample

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