Three recently emerged virgin Queens piping to each other in a colony of honeybees.  Recorded with a Lavalier mic at the top of the frame (mid) and a JrF contact mic embedded in the beeswax comb (side). Mixed to L-R stereo. Recorded to a SD702.


T280 3 Virgin Queens Piping

Schallfeld Ensemble and Pierre-André Valade at Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, Austria

(For Matt Butler, with thanks to the Nuckolls Family)

https://joshuamastel.com/Birds-fly/

Birds Fly

Jouer is an immersive composition for amplified soprano saxophone and electronics that explores sounds associated with “play”—sports, balls bouncing or being hit, playground and amusement park sounds, sounds of various children’s toys, balloons, video games, swimming pool games, trampolines, casinos, racetrack sounds, and much more. The electronics lead the listener through various soundscapes associated with the theme, while the saxophone part interacts with the evolving timbres and unifies the various sound worlds. 

Reid composed the piece at Yaddo and MacDowell as part of her Guggenheim Fellowship. The piece was composed for Kyle Hutchins and the Cube at Virginia Tech.

Performance by Kyle Hutchins.

Jouer

performed by:

Elijah Spies – viola
Francesco Palmieri – guitar
Jacob Mason – piano
Mikołaj Rytowski – percussion

recorded by Santiago Villar Martín
mixed by Isaac Roth Blumfield

recorded Nov 30, Klaus Linder Saal, Musik Akademie Basel

Underglow | for viola, guitar, piano, percussion, feedback network, and electronics (2022-23)

live at 2640 Space (Baltimore)

live recording of the premiere of "deep terrane (something moves)"

-Ty Bouque [voice]- http://tybouque.com
-Will Yager [bass] - https://willyager.com
-T McCormack [prepared bass drum]

more info:
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/something-moves
www.timothy-mccormack.com/deepterraneproject

[photo credit: Ian Power - https://ianpoweromg.tumblr.com]

deep terrane (something moves) [2024]

live at 2640 Space (Baltimore); live recording of the premiere

Performed by, written for, commissioned by Ty Bouque [voice]

more info:
http://timothy-mccormack.com/seated-at-the-throat
http://tybouque.com

[photo credit: Hang Su, @oliver_espace]

Seated at the Throat [2023-24]

ambient reworking of the end of my piece for four violas da gamba. 
https://joshuamastel.com/we-were-something-different-then-ii/

we were something different then [remix]

Stereo JrF contact mics with impedance adapters, taped to my bedroom window during a storm in New Orleans, recording into a TASCAM DR-100MKIII. 

Recorded 8 March 2024 in the evening.

Contact Mics: https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/contact-microphones.php

contact mics on window during new orleans storm [stereo]

premiered by line upon line at Harvard University's Paine Hall, Cambridge MA february 28, 2023

something buried in the earth (2023) | line upon line

Conrad Tao, piano // Tyshawn Sorey, percussion

Performed live at the Park Avenue Armory Veterans Room as part of Jason Moran's Artists Studio series.
May 20, 2016.

Schoenberg: Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23 (with Tyshawn Sorey)

Performed by Clocks in Motion percussion quartet

Misaligned

James is a composer, improvisor, conductor, performer, and writer.

contact mics on window during new orleans storm [stereo]

James May

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