Number Nine is a tune written by Larry Graves and is a raucous, funky, fun tune to play.  Always an audience favourite.  Recorded on our Queen Street Fare/Bar Robo gig, Nov 30, 2022.

Number Nine  performed by 45north at QSF Nov 30 2022

L’ermitage au toit de chaume (2014-2015) pour bande numérique.

Commande Ina -GRM
Prix du jury au 9ème Concours de Composition Acousmatique Métamorphoses 2016. Belgique.
Création: Mirtru Escalona-Mijares (Akousmonium) Festival Akousma. Saison Multiphonies. MPAA- Saint Germain. Janvier 2015. Paris.


Cette pièce est un petit hommage au moine bouddhiste Ryokan (1758-1831) et l’impression qu’elle m’a produit la lecture des quelques de ses poèmes.

Pour L’ermitage au toit de chaume, le point de départ de l’œuvre est l’image poétique de cinq tankas (poème japonais sans rimes, de 31 syllabes sur cinq lignes) écrit par Ryokan dans des périodes différentes de sa vie.

vous me demandez	
où se trouve
ma demeure?	
à l’est du pont
au-dessus du fleuve d’étoiles
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
si on me demande comment
j’ai pu renoncer au désir
sous le ciel
quand la pluie tombe, elle tombe
quand le vent souffle, il souffle
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
un long moment 
sous le ciel parfumé
d’ivresse affalé
un rêve merveilleux
au pied du cerisier en fleurs
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
la rosée s’est deposée
le sentier de la montagne doit être froid 
une dernière coup de saké 
avant de rentrer
peut-être?
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
comme un mince filet d’eau
se frayant un passage entre des rochers
couverts de mousse
aussi allègrement
j’ai traversé cette vie

RYOKAN
Recueil de l’ermitage 
au toit de chaume 
© Éditions Moundarren.
Hervé Collet. 2004/2010.

L'ermitage au toit de chaume (2014-2015) for Tape

Adagio

Critical Point

五月闇 (Early Summer Black)

Acousmatic composition realised in 6th-order 3D ambisonics. This is an short extract from the middle of the composition, rendered to 'normal' stereo. The original composition is 17'00. More info here:
http://www.natashabarrett.org/Involuntary_Expression.html

Full length on: https://www.sargasso.com/product/natasha-barrett-leap-seconds/

Involuntary Expression Stereo Extract. Full length now released! See info

Pourquoi ne pas mourir à l'aube blanche ?
/ Shall we die in the white dawn?

(2017)
This recording is a stereo version

Pourquoi ne pas mourir à l'aube blanche?

Cello par Lara Laverdure

Montage par Léa Boudreau

Originally composed for 8 speakers (during the autumn of 2017)

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Pour entendre la version complète et masterisée : electrocd.com/fr/album/6348/lea-boudreau/limacon

To hear the full and mastered version: electrocd.com/fr/album/6348/lea-boudreau/limacon

Impromptu[e] - EXTRAIT

Scott Deal, percussion
Immeasurable Distance was composed in memory of my percussion colleague Roger Schupp. Roger asked me to write a piece for him but passed away before the piece could be brought to fruition. My sincere appreciation and thanks to Scott Deal, who agreed to join me to imagine and complete the journey of this piece. While "Immeasurable Distance" was initially composed as a tribute to Roger, I think it has become a piece about the immeasurable distance that can exist between any of us.

ImmeasurableDistance

AI Phantasy [tape]

Jorge Gregorio García Moncada
Pieza: Leo’s somnium, Bestiary, No. 2 (2020)
Dur: 10’22
Format: Fixed audio file, 8 channles 

According to the medieval tradition, “the lioness gives bitrh to dead cubs, which remain inanimate until their father arrives after three days and breaths in their faces” (Honorius Augustodunensis, Imago Mundi, S. XIII).

Bestiario: 2, Leo's Somnium (Binaural, 8chnnls original)

While this program ended in July 2021 after 15 years, I very much enjoyed hosting/producing 'Acoustic Frontiers' a 90 minute program airing electroacoustic and computer processed music by composers from around the world on CKCU fm - ckcufm.com - in Ottawa Ontario Canada.  

Additionally, as you will hear from the tunes that I have posted here, I play sax, mostly jazz, and have done some recordings of original tunes.  The most recent posts are from my current project, 45north band, a 5 piece band playing a Canadian jazz repertoire.  

Mostly these recordings are basement projects.

I also have been on bari sax in a nonet, Alternate Takes.  We recorded our 2nd CD 'Urban Flower' a while back that was released in 2018 with our concert at Merrickville's Jazz Fest.  I've posted a short clip of the first tune from that CD, 'Little Sunflower'

Number Nine performed by 45north at QSF Nov 30 2022

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