Performed by Ekmeles:

Charlotte Mundy, soprano
Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano
Tim Parsons, countertenor
Steven Bradshaw, tenor
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone and director
Steven Hrycelak, bass

Production:

Recorded by David Adamcyk 
Filmed & edited by David Bird
Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, March 2021
Produced by Nina Fukuoka and Hannah Kendall for Columbia Composers
Special thanks to Kristina Golubkova and Engin Dağlık for their assistance in the mix

Program Notes:

Silicone Skin and Fleshy Masses is built on an imaginary song that is sung by a machine entity that has been abandoned by its creator. Living through an ever-continuous process of corporal disintegration, the machine is left to witness its own decaying beauty and thus yearns for the healing touch of its maker. Although an original version of the song does not exist, this temporally stretched and fragmented reimagining of the music is meant to illustrate a moment in the machine’s perpetually deteriorating state. 

This work is part of an ongoing endeavor of the composer to analyze the human voice and repurpose it within new, instrumental settings. Through this instrumental resynthesis, the composer intends to defamiliarize the original source material and capture a liminal zone in between what may be perceived as “human” and “non-human”. In Silicone Skin and Fleshy Masses, the instrumental constituents of the imagined voice are made of six actual human voices. The vocal performers, together with the accompanying sine waves, collectively constitute the voice of the fictional entity. Therefore, the ensemble is given a twofold role, which is to evoke the soulful singing of a seemingly sentient being, while simultaneously manifesting its uncanny nature.

Art: Yugo Kohrogi

Silicone Skin And Fleshy Masses (2020-21) for voices & sine waves

first track from the mermaid café EP: AN IMPOSSIBLE VIEW

words and vox by me :) 

available on Takuroku https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/the-mermaid-cafe-an-impossible-view/

"The Mermaid Cafe's music arrives at the curious intersection between British song-based experimentalist practices. Tipping towards the tender minimalism of Jane and Barton and Young Marble Giants, as well as the contemporary composition of Mica Levi and Neil Luck, the group explore the awkward space where melody, harmony, sound and outré weirdness meet in tryst.

In this debut release by them, moods and tone palettes blend and shift, taking clouds of synthesis, ruffled tape work, scrapes of guitar and field recordings along with them as they lead us inward. Like the music, spoken refrains and diaristic laments arrive and disappear, providing signposts to their maze: intersections that gradually lead way to a romantic, melancholic core.

A pleasure to put out a new release by this exciting young group who are bursting full of ideas."

ALICE

recorded in April 2021 

Guildhall Orchestral Artistry students / members of the LSO 
conducted by Jack Sheen

Silk Street Concert Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

TWO GREENHOUSES (bean piece 2)

Fabricated Memories, I. (2021) for six electric guitars

Géranomachie (2021)
pour grand ensemble et électronique
Commande de l'Ensemble Intercontemporain et de l'Ircam-Centre Pompidou

3 December 2021, Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie de Paris 

Direction: Léo Margue
Rim: Carlo Laurenzi

Géranomachie (2021)

Réponse

Réponse

_teoría y práctica de la ideología

Originally composed by Kate Bush for the "Hounds of Love" album (1985).

A collaborative cover made by Victoire Volange (vocals) and Fardeau Losange (music).

26 juillet 2°22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM

Victoire Volange & Fardeau Losange - Running up that hill (Kate Bush cover)

abgrund, for ensemble (2017) 

Lucerne Festival 
KKL Luzern 23.08.2017

Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble:
Raoul Cho flute
Tomonori Takeda clarinet
Vitaliy Kyianytsia piano
Bill Solomon percussion
Marina Kifferstein violin
Rachel Koblyakov violin
Francesco Tosco viola
Simon Thompson cello
Juan Díaz double bass
Conducting:
Mehdi Lougraïda

abgrund, for ensemble

Performed by Ensemble X:

Ellen Jewett - Violin
Elizabeth Simkin - Violoncello
Xak Bjerken - Piano

Turkish Premiere - August 2018, Cappadocia.

Art: Max Ernst

Leaked Tape from the Sacred Mysteries (2018) for piano trio

recorded by Duo Winston / Goepfert at Saygun Concert Hall, Ankara

Juna Toksöz Winston, trombone
Coleman Goepfert, e-guitar

Mix-Mastering: Deniz Aslan

Miniatures I. for e-guitar and trombone

...soft silly music is meaningful magical

_teoría y práctica de la ideología

Joaquín

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