for orchestra (2019)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (orchestra)

extract of world premiere, Tectonics Glasgow, City Halls, Glasgow, 1 May 2022

recorded by BBC Radio 3; used with permission

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

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Weligwic (Anglo-Saxon, ‘place of willows’) is a sibling of my string quartet Leafleoht (‘Leaf-light’, 2018), and is similarly concerned with images of light and foliage, and our indwelling in the natural world (a theme woven through the mythology of willows since ancient times). The two pieces share many materials and follow a similar three-section structure, but whereas Leafleoht is concerned with daylight and brightness, Weligwic takes place in a half-light and is overcast and subdued in atmosphere. The first section consists of a series of extremely soft, fleeting aural glimpses; in the long central section, the Grove, the continuous, variegated string texture (a matrix through which each player wanders independently) acts as a field of sounds underlying other, intermittent layers; the third section sees a repeated brightening of the atmosphere, as on a cloudy day when the sun nearly breaks through.

Weligwic (extract)

Drummer:

Caligula
Flacid House  
Larri and the Lepidopterists
DUCK 'N' THE BOYZ
The Equation of Time
Grumpy Bandersnatch
The Dark And Bloody Ground
Vulgar
ERIC 'N' THE BOYZ
Crack Rock
Gravity Shadow

Flacid House You Tube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ESn7w30nD3XyOCQBa5OAA

Caligula YouTube Channel 
https://www.youtube.com/@caligulacaligula1086

lorenzo.pagliei@gmail.com
Composer, pianist, orchestral conductor, electronic musician and researcher, Lorenzo Pagliei studied with Salvatore Sciarrino, Azio Corghi, Ivan Vandor, Giorgio Nottoli and Philippe Leroux. 
He holds a PhD in Composition from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. The president of the examination board was Luciano Berio, with whom he later had a fruitful period of exchange on his own music.
He attended masterclasses with Gérard Grisey, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, Yan Maresz, Philippe Manoury, Henri Pousseur e Hugues Dufourt.

His activity has a wide range of applications: composition, research, live electronic music, sound installations, piano improvisation, orchestral conducting and collaborations with contemporary artists and choreographers.
He moved to Paris to work for several years at IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, as a composer in research and professor of electronic music.
During his researches on gesture and sound synthesis at IRCAM, he invented a family of advanced electroacoustic instruments: the Geecos (Gesture Control Surfaces/Synthesis). He collaborated with CNRS, Collège de France, for the realization of a synthesis engine and a sound installation devoted to the sonification of sub-molecular particles (Micro Particle Synthesis – Les invisibles).

He collaborated with prestigious soloists, orchestras and institutions such as Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, EXAUDI vocal ensemble, Quatuor Danel, Quatuor Tana, Mdi Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Ars Ludi, Francesco Dillon, Arne Deforce, Jean Deroyer. Daniel Ciampolini, LeineRoebana dance company, BBC Radio 3, Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Musica Strasbourg, Wien Modern, Voix Nouvelles Royaumont, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, IUC Roma, RomaEuropa festival, Académie de France Villa Medici, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Arena di Verona, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, IRCAM, CNRS - College de France, Centre Pompidou, etc.
Since 2013, his music is published by Casa Ricordi and formerly by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni.

His music is based on curved, elastic and micro-caotic time, on blurred synchronisation and on layering of different qualities of time in fluid relation (poly-temporality). He has developed flexible writing techniques in which the creative contribution of the interpreter is fundamental. The aim is to attain the freshness and vitality of the present, as in improvisation, while articulating a rigorous architecture on a large scale.
In electronic music, he tries to realise what is impossible with acoustic instruments: the synthesis of unrealistic or physically inspired sounds, the hyper-amplification of acoustic objects or instruments and the use of spatialisation to open up listening to new dramaturgical dimensions.
Another major field of interest is the voice, conceived not only as singing but also as a source of multiple behaviours. This is why his vocal scores are located in the fertile territory at the intersection of music, theatre and literature.

collaborations, shared projects, ideas ..

http://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

https://musichevirtuali.blogspot.com/

www.musichevirtuali.org

https://twitter.com/musichevirtuali

https://www.facebook.com/pages/orchestra-eclettica-e-sincretista/111790807863?fref=ts

"I'm a mellow artist, ageing 69. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases:

https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-dreams
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/lieder-ohne-worte 
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli ‘amateurs’, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute

Since its debut in 2002, EXAUDI has emerged as one of Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Founded by James Weeks (director) and Juliet Fraser (soprano), EXAUDI is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK’s brightest vocal talents. EXAUDI’s special affinity is for the radical edges of contemporary music, at home equally with maximal complexity, microtonality and experimental aesthetics. EXAUDI celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2012 with major UK and international tours and new commissions from Matthew Shlomowitz, Joanna Bailie, Bryn Harrison and Aaron Cassidy, amongst others.

EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges support from the PRS for Music Foundation.

I'll follow you back when SC lifts the follower limit (!)
Loving listening to everyone's music on here :-))))))))))

Weligwic (extract)

James Weeks Composer