Name: New Avalon by John Paul Labno
Duration: 16 min 42 s
Description: This recording of New Avalon was performed by Invoke in August, 2021 at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

I want to see the MOVIE that this goes with 

It is my pleasure to release my latest piano composition.  Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy.

Blue Waves

A World in Its Entirety (2020) עולם ומלואו
by Assaf Shatil

* World Premiere Recording *
| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Assaf Shatil: A World in Its Entirety | Hagai Yodan, piano

Tunnel Vision

Agate

Vortex, boxcar, scored for flute and electronically-processed recordings, juxtaposes the acoustical properties of two contrasting spaces:

1) Richard Serra’s massive, sixty-eight foot COR-TEN steel sculpture “Vortex” which stands in front of the entrance to the Forth Worth Museum of Modern Art. It is a sanctuary, doubling as a playful zone freely accessible to an enthusiastic public, commissioned from one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

2) An abandoned railroad freight car that sits in a roadside field in Wartrace, Tennessee — a discarded container crafted by unknown workers. Suspicious debris found inside the boxcar indicates that it is now a site of escapism for youth. 

Impulse responses of both ‘spaces’ were recorded by the composer and analyzed for frequency content. Pitches played by the flute in certain sections of the work correspond to resonant frequencies of either the Serra sculpture or the boxcar. Electronic resonances are based on the actual spaces. Recorded sounds from other locales are also processed through the resonance of these spaces. For example, the sound of breathing renders the vortex as a steel lung — an organ that, in some ways, the sculpture actually resembles.


“Vortex, boxcar,” for example, a composition of mine scored for flute and electronically-processed recordings, is based on recordings I made inside of Richard Serra's massive "Vortex" sculpture that stands in front of the Fort Worth, TX Museum of Modern Art as well as recordings realized inside of an abandoned railroad freight car that I came across in a roadside field in Wartrace, TN. Analyses of the prominent resonant frequencies of each space were used as the basis of materials for the flute and recorded processed sounds. The work juxtaposes the acoustical properties of two contrasting spaces — 
one, a large-scale public sculpture commissioned from one of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists and frequented by visitors to a world class museum; the other, a discarded container assembled by unknown workers, its interior serving now only as an escapist pod for local drug users, its exterior an industrial relic for passersby.  “Vortex, boxcar” was recently premiered in Denmark by Marie Sønderskov.

This work is part of a planned series of compositions exploring the resonances of architectural spaces, objects, and the inherent soundscapes of natural and manmade environments. As with “Vortex, boxcar,” the subsequent pieces in this series will present contrasting spaces that form analogies with disparate social conditions.

"Vortex, Boxcar" for flute and electronics (Marie Sønderskov performing in Denmark)

This recording of New Avalon was performed by Invoke in August, 2021 at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

New Avalon

Need to know which drum pattern works best, please leave a comment on the timeline or say which part is your favorite. Will hopefully keep this updating over time but I just wanna get what I did today out there!
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||RIDLEY'S METAVERZE

Maybe I don't know you might think its strange
But I talk to my plants on a regular basis
I just think they might be listenin
And maybe warm words could inspire the growth of a limb
And every night I walk to sit upon the base of my favorite tree
And I don't know I think he likes to see me
And as I lay back, just before I go on my way
I swear I hear him say...


We are the same...thing
We are the same, ooh
We are the same...thing
We are the same


I don't know maybe you might think I'm out of my mind
But what if we are all amnesiacs here in disguise
And we forgot that we are nothing short of stars in the night
You know behind those eyes you're beaming with impossible light
So when I see the way that ego takes the wheel and makes 
for greed and hate, I wonder how the world will awake, 
But maybe if we all come together and at the same time, say 

HEY!!...

We are the same... thing 
We are the same, ooh 
We are the same...thing
We are the same

New Avalon

John Paul Labno

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