Utterly compelling, ever surprising, deeply inspiring composition -- many thanks

Out on November 24th, 2022 physically (Vinyl) and digitally...

Pre-order: 
https://rubadub.co.uk/products/baby-with-a-halo
https://motionward.bandcamp.com/album/ura-baby-with-a-halo

All music written and recorded by Ura https://soundcloud.com/unsignedrecordingartist

Artwork by Shy
Center labels by JS
Mastered by Anne Taegert at D&M
Mixed by Francis Latreille

MW010: Ura, "Baby With A Halo"

Foggyhead - Noisy & Fairy (live at Azgur Museum)

To accompany Serpentine's 2022 Radio Ballads exhibition, we commissioned sound objects that could hold and share the project's collaborative processes, communicate care through sound, and invite listeners into the emotional world of Radio Ballads.

Referencing the methods used in the original BBC Radio Ballads, audio producer Nada Smiljanic made eight sound objects by stitching, layering and weaving together sound and music that had been captured by the Radio Ballads team throughout three years of collaborations, conversations and performances. 

These creative tracks are permanently available on Serpentine’s free Bloomberg Connects app, alongside an introduction from the Civic team and an interview between Amal Khalaf, Civic Curator, Serpentine, and Marijke Steedman, founder of New Town Culture.

Listening

An Invitation to Pause

Dreaming

Composers: Lu Xiutang, and Wang Xunzhi
The music contains elements of Chinese Kunqu Opera and is based on a story in Water Margin: The hero Lin Chong was persecuted by Gao Qiu and has escaped to Liang Mountain in a snowstorm without any choice. The music portrays helplessness, anger, and sadness in his inner world, and imitates human crying sound through techniques.

Lin Chong's Night Escape(1962)

Composers: Fan Shang'e and Gesang Daji
The music depicts the scenery of the Tibet Mountain when the ice and snow melt, and the scenes of people singing and dancing - expressing the Tibetan people's love for life.

Snowy Mountain in Spring(1981)

some attempts

si alza la nebbia. 
un cane smarrito chiama gli esseri straordinari del mondo.

la foresta che si sveglia

Agna Rita – many voices, one message - review by Abi Bliss 
All fish weirs on the Thames and the Medway and throughout England are to be entirely removed, save on the sea coast.
You may be forgiven for not immediately identifying that as a line from the Magna Carta, the document revered across eight centuries as one of the icons of British freedom and democracy. But the treaty signed by King John in 1215 was chiefly about restraint. It offered royal subjects freedom through protection, whether that meant limiting the power of the crown to seize property and demand taxes, standardising weights and measures of wine, ale, corn and cloth – or stopping the obstruction of waterways. 
View it from a distance through the foggy lens of history and the Magna Carta makes a fine symbol of liberty; examine the details up close and you discover clauses such as: No-one is to be taken or imprisoned on the appeal of woman for the death of anyone save for the death of that woman’s husband. It seems that freedom is more for some than others.
In contrast, electroacoustic music entices with the promise of a world without limits. Confined only by their own imagination and the available technology, composers can sculpt sounds, synthesise, manipulate and refine them to levels of detail more delicate than any human ear can perceive. They can recreate worlds or shape impossible new ones, bend the laws of physics or, as Jo Thomas did on 2010’s Alpha, merge human with machine into a cyborg future.
In a similar way to abstract visual art and sculpture, electroacoustic music offers listeners – indeed, demands that they exercise – the freedom to interpret. And if composers are rulers only in the most intangible sense and only for the length of each piece, still it is here that they should feel the need for self-restraint, to allow listeners space to build their own houses of meaning around these orphaned sounds and furnish them with individual experience.
Diffused across 22 speaker channels and more than an hour in length in its installation form, Agna Rita is Thomas’s largest and boldest work to date. Even in its stereo CD version, the scope is striking. Yet although at times it confronts and challenges, there are no bombastic displays of power here. Instead, it welcomes in listeners on a human scale. 


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GrantedbyGod

Granted By God Agna Rita

Parva Lumina, per Giuseppe Chiari.

Recorded in November 2018 at Chiesa di San Giusto a Ema (Florence). 

Luisa Santacesaria: Pipe Organ
Daniela Fantechi: Electronics
Marco Baldini: Tapes

Pipe Organ built by Filippo Tronci (Opus 1120) in 1835.

Composed, recorded and mixed by Marco Baldini and Daniela Fantechi.

Thanks to Gianni Cioli, Agnese Fortuna and Filippo Lagi.

https://kohlhaas.bandcamp.com/album/anabasi

Parva Lumina

Jo Thomas is a composer and creative musician based in London who works with live electronic and installation. Her work is published through her own imprint Soft Apple , Naxos, NMC recordings, Holiday Records and Entracte. 
www.jothomas.me

Granted By God Agna Rita

Jo Thomas

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