Beautiful and unsettling at the same time.

Recorded November 22th 2021
in the Czech Museum of Music

Played on Alois Haba's two leveled quarter tone grand piano

cloudy

This piece was written for amplified voice and orchestra and is performed by the RSO Wien.

Mouthpiece IX part1

Eastman Harmonie conducted by Mark Scatterday
Kodak Hall, Rochester, NY
April 15 2022.

Commissioned by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Eastman School of Music.

Giving Ground (2022) for wind octet

Le fils d'un marin grec qui l'a abandonné au Canada et qui le retrouve vingt ans plus tard à Athènes.

Libre et bohème (2008)

Pierrot Le Grec

Pierrot Le Grec (feat D. Dumoutier, accordeon)

Composed by Christian Ryan (2023).

performed live in Illinois @ Schweikher House
on December 17th, 2023.

Natalie Frakes, violin
Omkara Gil, cello
John Bitoy, piano

photo by Michael Zuhorski

December Lines (live, IL, 2023)

Inspiré par la musique traditionnelle du monde.  Avec Étienne Lafrance, contrebasse, et Didier Dumoutier à l'accordéon.  Enregistré chez Studio Sismique, Québec

Libre et bohème

Nous Nous Sommes Oubliés (feat D. Dumoutier, accordeon et E. Lafrance, contrebasse)

Wabi-Sabi

Part of the piece - 2 Kinetic studies, made during the residency at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest in 2016: https://soundcloud.com/svetlanamaras/sets/2-kinetic-studies

Study no.1 is guided by the principle of symmetry. The central spot of the composition is in the middle of the room - half the way on both horizontal X- and Z-axis. Each object always moves through both halves of at least one of the X- or Z-planes. The element which is being doubled, is followed by the same-pace movement of the element on the opposite side of the axis, but the movement is being reversed: element no.6 positioned on Z-4 goes from X-5 to X+5 while at the same time in the same speed element no.7 at Z+4 goes from X+5 to X-5. 
There are three elements which are the musical nucleus of the composition (1, 2, 3). These sounds are airy (noisy) but they have a recognisable pitch and form a minor triad. All other elements are tuned to these three elements which define the tonal center of the piece. This kind of interpretation of the harmonic aspect of the composition, parallels the interpretation of ‘symmetrical’ in spatial domain. 

This is a stereo mixdown of the piece.

VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/210260544

Study No.1

Music and Text: Ben Vida
Voices: Ben Vida and Nina Dante
Year: 2018
Originally debuted at BAM Ficher Center in 2018, this is a studio version recorded the following year.

And So Now

wood comb by 3 tape loops.

Shatter Pattern

Jean-Marc is a composer, sound designer, and pianist based in NYC.

For any inquiries, please contact:
jmymusicmail@gmail.com

Shatter Pattern

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