You have iterated my mother's lament for a life she ended by her own hand. B

Elena Rykova: electric guitar, electronics
Etienne Nillesen: extended snare drum

7 fish in a desert is the first piece in our album, which is going to be released very soon. Stay tuned!

More info on the artists:
https://etiennenillesen.com/​ 
https://www.elenarykova.rocks/

Elena Rykova & Etienne Nillesen - 7 Fish In A Desert

This is a second recording made in 2020 of the fallow deer 'lek'. This happens around in the second half of October in the UK. The males tend to congregate in in small groups or mating territories where they exhibit lekking behaviours such as sticking to particular 'stands' where they will repeating grunt and bellow.

This recording was made with a Sony M10 and a spaced pair of clippy EM172s. The mics were placed where I had observed a large group of rutting males the night before.

PS DEER MALEGRUNTS MULTIPLE VERYCLOSE MOVEMENTACROSSSTEREOFIELD M10

Altérité

Abuse (feat. Alice Imbert & Luke Sutherland)

Along Dark Paths (Per Opaca Viarum) was commissioned and premiered by the Koninklijk Harmonieorkest Vooruit Harelbeke, cond. Erik Desimpelaere

Along Dark Paths (excerpt) 1. Ambages (furore)

for cello, transducers, and sampler.
ensemble mosaik (Mathis Mayr and Ernst Surberg) live at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin.

Gravity and Center (cello + sampler)

Antoine Cognet : banjo
Yann Gourdon : vielle à roue

http://www.la-novia.fr/versant.php

La Polkas Des Bébés - Polka Del Riquiton

for six voices, flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, violoncello and double bass
Léo Warynski, Conductor

Ensemble Multilatérale
Matteo Cesari - flutes
Allain Billard - clarinets
Hélene Colombotti - percussions
Aurélie Saraf - harp
Pablo Tognan - violoncello
Nicolas Crosse - double bass

Les Métaboles
Anne - Clarie Baconnais
Aurélie Bougié 
Laura Muller
Steve Zheng 
René Ramos-Premier
Paul-Alexandre Dubois

16.07.2023
Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille

<eludes> | Les Métaboles & Ensemble Multilatérale (2023)

On 25th May Ireland will vote on amending its restrictive abortion laws. I was asked by Room for Rebellion and C.A.N.V.A.S. to create a piece for a compilation in aid of pro-choice charities to be released prior to the referendum. For logistical reasons this compilation won’t be released until later in the year, so I’ve decided to share the piece now, a week away from the referendum.

If you’re an Irish citizen or resident, please donate to Together for Yes:
https://www.togetherforyes.ie/donate/
If you’re not an Irish citizen or resident, please donate to Abortion Support Network or Alliance for Choice: https://www.asn.org.uk  http://www.alliance4choice.com/donate-2/

ABOUT THE PIECE:

“I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge.” 

Like most people of my generation, I studied the work of Peig Sayers (1873-1958) at school and the opening lines of her 1936 autobiography "Peig" are burned into my consciousness. "Peg 2018" takes those opening lines as a starting point, but departs immediately from the original, imagining the reflections of an entirely different, fictional Peg, an Irishwoman born in the 1950s. 

NOTE: The piece in no way represents the views of Peig Sayers or her descendants.
CONTENT ADVISORY: Material may be distressing for some listeners.

Image: Gustave Courbet's Jo, the Beautiful Irish Girl

Peg 2018

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

Convex (2019-2020) 
for large ensemble of 13 players

Flute (Alto Flute, Piccolo)
Oboe (Cor Anglais)
Clarinet in Bb (Bass Clarinet)
Alto Saxophone (Baritone Saxophone) 
Horn in F
Harp
Percussion1
Percussion 2
Piano
Violin I 
Viol II 
Viola 
Violoncello

composed for Grossman Ensemble 

Program note:
The uncanny secret about the experience of falling apart is
 that one can—even if only for seconds—capture the image
 of the day just the way light is broken up into a hundred
 shattered shades and bended hues when it passes through
 a prism.

Grossman 20200312 vs 0501

Convex (2019-2020)

30 June 2020

During an unattended nocturnal recording session in a patch of old-growth forest a rain and thunder weather passed over during late evening hours. Birds stopped singing except for a Common Chiffchaff which actually seemed triggered by the rain and thunder.

Vindeln commune, Northern Sweden (64.11 N, 19.44 E)

Primos, +6 dB, 150 Hz/6 dB low cut filter in post

Chiffchaff singing in rain and thunder

Composer, improviser, vocalist. Works under her own name and a wide variety of alter egos. 

www.milker.org

See https://soundcloud.com/grupat for Walshe's works under her Grúpat alter egos. 

Nature Data CD available on Interval Recordings, iTunes, Spotify etc. 

Good Teeth available here: http://migrorecords.com/ghikasandwalshe

Various CD/DVDs available here:
http://www.cmc.ie/shop/shop_comp.cfm?composerID=114
http://www.stock11.de/shop/de/CD?L=1




Peg 2018

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