Utdrag ur Allé av Mirjam Tally, komponerad för Trio Vilse 2021-22

Natalie Eriksson, basklarinett
Ida Höög, Paetzold kontrabasblockflöjt
Alvi Joensen, gitarr

Inspelad på Musikhögskolan i Malmö 1 juni 2022

Demo

Mirjam Tally - Allé - Excerpts

Hans Höglund – Uppklang Av En Ensam Röst

Joel Engström – Procession 2.1

Ljudvågor 2012 – Södra Latins Kammarkör under ledning av Jan Risberg

Rosanna Gunnarsson – Fragment

Ljudvågor 2012 – Elever från Musikkonservatoriet Falun

Simon Schultz – Tann For Tunge

Erik Lindman-Mata – Cessation Root Lock

Ljudvågor 2013 – Elever från Musikkonservatoriet Falun

Maja Linderoth – Genom Gruset Spira Grönska, Grönt

Ljudvågor 2005 – EAM (+ musiker från Gotlandsmusiken) 

David Löfberg – Slutar Aldrig Hundarna Skälla?

Sky Over The Lake (2023) for mixed choir and sound objects. Text by Ann Keniston. P: Swedish Radio Choir, c. Kaspars Putnins, Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Anders Jormin (contrabas), Sinikka Langeland (kantele). Baltic Sea Festival 2023.

Sky Over The Lake

Tomas Franck – tenor sax
Thomas Clausen – piano
Niels “Guffi” Pallesen – bass
Jesper Elén – drums

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The “Artefatti” are a series of pieces realized with a particular family of electroacoustic instruments: the “Geecos” - Gestural Control Surfaces.

The Geecos, conceived in collaboration with the luthier Ludovic Barrier, are special wooden surfaces having different shapes and thickness, expressly designed to control real time sound synthesis.

Sounds produced on the surface by the performer’s hands are captured via a contact microphone and finely analyzed in real time using a family of sound descriptors (ircam descriptors). 
Data issued from the sound analysis are used to finely modulate parameters of sound synthesis in real time.  In this way the musician controls the inner details of sound synthesis through the sound of his own hands.

The synthesis engine uses modal synthesis in real time (modalys © ircam) because it reacts to gestures in an (almost) physical and natural way. There is no sampled sound or sound playback.  The goal is to give the performer a control of sound similar to that of an acoustic instrument. In fact, the definition of timbre is based on the performer’s gestures and sensibility just like a violin.
For this reason Geecos stands also for "Gesture Controlled Synthesis"

The challenge is to realize an electronic music where the sounds are just sounds and not electronic sounds.

Three Geecos have been designed to date, each one with its own name, shape and dimensions.
The smallest is called Manta, the medium Olpe and the biggest one Tursiope. 
Every Geecos has a specific ergonomics to fit in multiple ways with the performer’s body and actions.
The quality of sound synthesis mostly depends from the sound produced on the surface of the instrument; for this reason “Geecos” are made of Val di Fiemme pinewood (Italy), the same used in most wooden musical instruments.

I developed this particular sound system at Ircam in Paris.

Geecos have been used for the first time in a large composition called “Voir-Toucher”, premiered on June 12th 2013 at Grande Salle of Centre Pompidou in Paris as a commission of Ircam.

The “Artefatti” are a series of free explorations of the Geecos possibilities.

Artefatto III is a Manta solo I personally improvised at Ircam, exploring four superposed layers of modal instruments:
- six tuned strings 
- a series of striked plates
- a bowed scratched string
- a low tube

The sounds are modulated only by hand gestures on Manta without any interactions with the computer.

LINKS:

video:
youtu.be/6Si2Y9Sm4AE
https://youtu.be/xcHppDtL3g4
https://youtu.be/gmxCx0AWeRg

photos:
https://www.facebook.com/pagliei.lorenzo/media_set?set=a.10150778844576484.436636.794671483

video interview:
http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr/video/lorenzo-pagliei/

program note:
http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/percussion-2013.pdf

page devoted to the première:
manifeste2013.ircam.fr/event/percussion-2013/

a first review:
http://manifeste2013.ircam.fr/text/lorenzo-pagliei-et-steven-schick-au-centre-pompidou/

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