earth. pillar. sky. (2021)--for amplified and prepared guqin

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Richard Craig, bass flute & speaker
Text: Amelia Rosselli
Additional speakers on fixed medium: Bettina Wenzel, Cassandra Quave, Harald Muenz
Live recording from 5 June 2009, Cologne, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter

Programme note:
Three articulatory spaces, one text, three imaginary worlds, one poetess: born in Paris as the daughter of an Irish mother, her father, an Italian anti-fascist, was assassinated when she was seven years old. She grew up first in England, subsequently in New York, studied literature and music (!) in Rome and London and finally settled down in Florence. Thanks to this polyglot background, Amelia Rosselli, from time to time, composed her poetry in three languages at the same time, in Italian, English, and French.
Following this inspiration I recorded an excerpt from her ‘Diario in tre lingue’ (‘Diary in three languages’) with respective non-native speakers (Bettina Wenzel, Cassandra L. Quave and myself) on tape and added a score for the sounding, articulating and filtering tube of a bass flute. Carin Levine, the American flutist who premiered the work, had to deal with a lot of Italian, but not with the English idiom. She pursues a for the most part determined musical-phonetic score, while the CD player’s random generator controls the 22 tracks of the CD. In this manner changing their order each time ariche is being performed, the sequences and voices coming recall dram sequences from the sphere of the subconscious. In fact, in several passages Amelia Rosselli’s text speaks exactly about this. Contrarily to the wide spread understanding of music as ‘a language, which everybody understands’ I am choosing a different approach: speech is a type of music all of us are concerned with.

ariche

"ariche" for bass flute and random controlled CD (2001)

for alto flute, percussion, viola

performed by Katrin Szamatulski, Yu-Ling Chiu, and Laura Hovestadt of the Broken Frames Syndicate (IEMA 2017/18) at the 2018 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Stipendium Preisträgerkonzert in Kunst-Station St. Peter Köln, 10.10.2018

pc: Alan Lampert

another ditch (2018)

For Solo Bass Flute
Performed by Helen Bledsoe 23.06.2018

Commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik
First performed 19 November 2016 by Helen Bledsoe at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Bite (2016)

MOMENT In STR

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Gustav Mahler

Symphony no.1 (1898)

I. Langsam, schleppend

transcribed by A.Baticci using only flute samples 
Enjoy!

disclamer: triangle and cymbals are the only foreign sounds...

Mahler - Titan - 1. Langsam, schleppend - HYPERFLUTE

Nina Šenk: Srebrno (Silverly) for flute and clarinet (2014, rev. 2019)

(Text: Srečko Kosovel - Proti zapadu I-II [Towards the West I-II, translated by Neville Hall])

duo 1010:
Stephanie Bell, flute/alto flute/piccolo
Liam Hockley, clarinet/bass clarinet

Recorded 24-25 May 2020, Victoria BC

Nina Šenk: Srebrno (Silverly) for flute and clarinet

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Jaume Darbra - flutist, performer and visual artist (*1993) - Cologne, Germany

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