For Jonathan Cole on his birthday this year.

All voices recorded by Jason Noghani.

This may need to be mixed again (panning, eq, etc.) but the overall form is right.

See if you can identify who the voices are meant to be...

Birthday Card for Jono - 2013

At the end of last year, I composed Xibalba for viola and electronics (musique concrete) for the violist Jennifer (Ames) Alexander. As of yet, there is no recording of the overall piece, something of which will hopefully get done sometime this year, but here are three sections of the electronic part (sections 4-6 out of 11 sections) as a taste of what there is - will upload the whole thing once it has been recorded with the viola too (the world premiere was on 7th December 2013, at the Bunker in Hackney, London).

Xibalba 4 - Crossroads

Xibalba 5 - Xibalba Council

Xibalba 6 - House 1  Dark

Dedicated to Jonathan Wiseman and Booboo Sianturi

From "Abandonment"; a series of pieces which explore creativity in classical musicians. This is the guitar piece, the second in the cycle.

Guitars - Gado Gado Ensemble (Jason Noghani and Boo-boo Sianturi)

Cosmic Gamelan (Bejewelled Self-Dribbling Basketballs)- 2016

Booboo Sianturi - Guitar, suling (bamboo fute)
Mita Alwi - Karangasem reed flute, panting, vocals
Anwar Baadilla - Guitar
Jason Noghani - Steel string guitar with bow, vocals

"War Nam Nihadan" is a Persian saying, which translates roughly as "to murder sombody, bury their body, then grow some flowers over the grave in order to conceal it." The performance was an improvisation that took place on January 31st 2016, and like all the best things in life (such as the formation of Gado Gado) was a happy accident!

Gado Gado EnSambal - War Nam Nihadan - 2016

Astral Animals is a piece aimed at children, who are required to design costumes of space creatures (astral animals) which they then wear and dance to the music. There are 7 musical layers, which correspond to either one or a group of dancers, who familiarise themselves with a particular layer so that they can distinguish it amongst the texture. Various realisations and interpretations can be conceived and choreographed from the piece, this particular one has all 7 sounds occurring simultaneously.

Composed October 2018, realised September 2019.

Realised on a Korg Synthesiser

Astral Animals - 2018

For Performers of Indian Music and Live Electronics (although this realisation was made using samples).

Premiered at Sacred Rhythm: Reborn Unison Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia on 11th January 2020

Akasha - 2018

For solo guitar (played by Jonathan Wiseman)

In memory of Luzia Huber (1927-2007)

PRAYER
As a Blossom
Have I arrived,
from a stone,
upon this stone.
And as a Blossom
will I go,
on yet another stone.
And time,
and time again,
as a Blossom come,
as a Blossom go,
endlessly be.
(by Luzia Huber)

Composed in Salzburg, November 2012.
This is the first of a number of pieces to be written by composer Jason Noghani, for the guitarist Jonathan Wiseman; a collaboration that will seek to explore new ways of performing and listening to the classical guitar. The scordatura is based around the harmonic series of D, and the only performance technique used throughout the piece is natural harmonics (especially unconventional ones). The Mayan Tzolkin calendar, based on the number 13, was used to control the pitches which were correspondingly arranged around a 13 note row (12 pitches, and 13th note the same as the first). Luzia Hubers magic number was 13, a number that remained of significance throughout many of the inner and outer experiences of her life.

Zyklisches Gebet (Cyclical Prayer) - 2012

For solo piano (Played by Antoine Françoise)

Dedicated to Dominika Dopierała

This short piece is based upon the timewave zero algorithms derived from the I-Ching (created by the late Terrence McKenna and other chaos mathematicians) and basically serves as an acoustic translation of it. The five algorithms were superimposed upon one another, and their numbers (ranging from 0 to 84) were translated into pitches (0 the lowest, 84 the highest). No alterations were done to the timewaves, other than repeated notes being sustained and sections impossible to play in one chord were speeded up (otherwise the piece remains at a constant fluctuating pulse). The piece was written between December 24th-26th 2009.

Tao - 2009

* Born in London in 1985
* Musical studies began with piano at age 7
* Started composing at age 10
* Was enrolled at the Purcell School of Music to study piano and composition at age 13.
* At age 18, won the BBC Young Composers competition for a piano trio, and was awarded a full scholarship to study composition at The Royal Academy of Music.
* Completed his Masters (MSc) in Applied Music Psychology in 2011 at Roehampton University.
* Currently resides in London

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