An hommage to Remedios Varo in imaginary time

SONATA for Solo Guitar ~D E M O~

Beneath your parents mattress is a stairwell leading downward.
The bed is like a door on which your parents knocked to summon you.

Mattress

"Moment(s): Various/Concerted" (2016)is for 10 players and was written for the Omnibus Ensemble, especially for the "Omnibus Laboratorium: Peabody – Tashkent" and was premiered by Omnibus Ensemble in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on 12 March 2017.
http://www.omnibus-ensemble.asia/

Program Note:

Moment(s): Various/Concerted (2016) for ten players:
[nay (alto and soprano) – oboe – percussion (suspended cymbal, crotales) – chang (or santur), –tanbur – two violins – viola – cello – contrabass] 

The starting place for this work was a collaboration with the incredible Omnibus Ensemble, who combine Western instruments and style with the traditional music and instruments of Uzbekistan. Members of the ensemble guided me through an exploration of Shashmaqam, particularly the incredibly beautiful and precise ornaments indicative of the genre. The specificity to which these microtonal embellishments are executed inspired me to connect this music with the newer microtonal tradition of spectralism. By deriving the musical lines from Uzbek ornaments and the harmony from the overtone series, the pitch content ties together these two otherwise disparate musics while also establishing a historical relationship to the Uzbek instruments and to timbre more generally.
After a sonorous introduction to the sound-world, the main body of Moment(s): Various/Concerted presents short phrases constructed with contrasting sounds within the ensemble, often repeated two or more times to establish them as consolidated moments or ‘sound-objects.’ Throughout the piece, these musical ideas are developed with a focus on texture and timbre, always increasing in length and complexity.

Peruse the score here: https://issuu.com/edmundscottmiller/docs/miller_-_momentvariousconcerted_-_s

Moment(s): Various/Concerted (for the Omnibus Ensemble)

For 2 Sopranos and Ensemble

by Valentin Jost


ABOUT:

In this piece, two sopranos sing a fairy tale that was written by a computer.

The work explores the theme of artificial intelligence in a child-like way, the music enhancing the absurd logic of the story. The name of every character is associated with a harmony and a motif. When a singer says the name of one of the characters, she automatically triggers the new corresponding harmonic field in the ensemble. As a consequence, the music almost sounds like it has also been computer-generated.


PERFORMED BY:

Ensemble A - Bang On A Can Summer Festival 2017

Brad Lubman - Conductor 
Emlyn Johnson - Flute
Anna Koch - Clarinet
Andrew Blanke - oboe
Timothy Bachman - Saxophone
Daniel Brottman - French horn
Kenken Gorder - Trumpet
Christian Larsen - Trombone
Adam Lion - Percussion
Jamey Kollar - Percussion
Tamika Gorski - Percussion
Georgia Mills - Piano
Maiani Da Silva - Violin 1
Madeline Hocking - Violin 2
Alirna Korieva - Violin 3
Anna Heflin - Viola 1
Joshua Wareham - Viola 2
Lauren Radnofsky - Cello 1
Ben Baker - Cello 2
Evan Runyon - Double bass
Danielle Buonaiuto - Voice
Molly Netter - Voice

JOST - DISTRESSING ARIEL AND THE #SWAG

Two Secret Wars (2003) is an audio dossier of two secret wars fought today using field recordings made from an anti-war rally in Seattle made on December 8, 2002 and a [long since de-classified] recording of an American air attack on a suspected “enemy” camp in Afghanistan. But does the time and place matter? These wars (secret government military action, and political activism) have been fought continually for decades now... 

Two Secret Wars

A work for Orchestra to be heard while watching F. W. Murnau’s Faust(starting at 17:43).  Premiered by Occasional Symphony at "Occasional Symphony presents Occasional Symphony Presents: Murnau's FAUST (1926)".  Use this link for syncing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gawCYequfQg&index=5&list=WL&t=1092s

Occasional Symphony: Mephisto (to be heard w/ Murnau's Faust @17:43)

If you have a chance to listen in surround, you can download the 5.1 surround mix here:
https://brandeis.box.com/s/jn56la94xt49jie6z25unpse8trdpu4b 
Listening at a higher volume and in surround sound is highly recommended for optimal experience.
This is a live recording of "Inner Time II," realized with one live clarinet and six pre-recorded parts at Project Q in NYC. Gleb Kanasevich - clarinets.
Enormous gratitude to Alec Hall for recording the show and to Alec and David Bird for putting the special show together.

Inner Time II, Op. 42b "Homage to Alexander Calder"

Horațiu Rădulescu - Inner Time II (for 7 clarinets) Live @Qubit 5/9/18

Performed by So Percussion at the Princeton Sound Kitchen, February 8, 2019

Interstices are very small spaces between adjacent objects, such as the space between cells of multicellular animals, or between atoms in a crystal, or between the components of an electrical cable. The piece is a melody that is split up between the players, a hocket, on an assortment of small instruments: crotales, and pieces of metal and wood. The energy of the music and the communication between the musicians live in the interstices.

Interstice

Live performance by Alarm Will Sound at Princeton Sound Kitchen, conducted by Alan Pierson.

Accidentally Witnessing Rain

Solo Cello work performed by Daniel Gaisford

Mattress

james david young

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