From the short film Violet Prevails by Nataly Pag

Cue from Violet Prevails - Jem Talaroc

Original electronic avant garde music for the silent film PUTOL by Nikolas Red.

OST from PUTOL (Short Film)

3 Star Wars

4 Rite Of Spring

5 Mindanao Sketches

6 Pagsamba

7 Divertissement

8 L'bad

9 Kabunyan

original choral piece by Ryan Cayabyab. Orchestrated by Jem Talaroc.

Note.. Program unable to play timpani and harp, hence the weird percussion.

Anima Christi (R. Cayabyab) Orchestral Version

Inherent in the film’s premise,  a dichotomy of two different cultures are musically represented here; on the one hand, the gongs and bamboos aurally symbolizing the Maguindanaon people and their cultures, on the other hand, the familiar sound of the choir and strings invoke the practices of Christianity. Internal and external struggles with identity and culture brought about by colonization unceasingly haunt the main characters in this film. One can hear such struggles in the music’s bizarre instrumentation. When the Kulintang gongs are pitted against a string quartet over the ambient background of voices and bamboos, clashing dissonances are to be expected, much like the clashing of the western and eastern ideologies in this film. 

A Gutierrez Mangansakan II Film
Written by Teng Mangansakan and Lav Diaz
By Reckless Natarajan Pictures and the 
2018 QCinema International Film Festival

Masla A Papanok (Ave) OST - Ave Maria | Vavilov/Caccini | Arr. Jem Talaroc

Miss Austri, Latin for Mass of the South, is a five-movement work for a capella choir. It's form lies on the traditional musical setting of the Roman Catholic Mass Ordinary; Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus dei, with Credo being omitted, an optional Alleluia is included. 
This mass, however, just like any other masses written by major composers, is not intended for liturgical practice in church, but to be performed in a concert setting.

In writing this Mass, it is of the composer's intention that the Cebuano (dialect of the composer) version of the Mass be set into an independent piece of music, elevating it into an artistic form. The work is also a personal homage or offering to the Giver of all Talents. Musically, Mass of the South is an accidental fusion between the composer's western influences and his interest in Philippine indigenous rhythms and melodies.
Despite the heavy influence of western music, there is no motivic figure that unifies the movements together. Repetition figures prominently in this composition, as in a kulintang ensemble, or the dabakan drums, As a whole, the work is Filipino in character.

Composer: Jem Robert Talaroc
Event: A Senior/Graduation Recital in Composition
Artists:
Conductor: Jem Robert Talaroc
Choir: Ating Pamana, Inc
Recorded by Jerry Angelo Catarata

V Agnus Dei

One movement Piano Sonata. Coz life is too short for three movements nowadays.. uses bi tonality and poly-rhythm. 


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