Nathanael Gubler - solo viola
Meitar Ensemble - Zvika Hirschler - sound engineer
Jerusalem Music Centre

Hidden Corners VI

performed by the Fukio Quartet - Quino Sáez / Chema Bañuls / Xabier Casal / Xavier Larsson  19th November 2013
Scattered across Asia, Africa and Europe are thousands of standing stones – Menhirs – monuments of ancient prehistoric cultures, the functions and origins of which remain elusive. Their craggy surfaces survive, perhaps once adorned with markings, now eroded by the weather and scarred through the events of history. The material of Menhir is like a collection of these inscriptions, transformed over thousands of years.....

Menhir

Trans. 'In the mouth of a wave'.

Written for three cellos and three sine waves, it is a piece both whispered and in slow motion. The strings and electronics constantly mirror each other in a deconstructed musical narrative that mimics the rhythm of breathing while sleeping, and the undulating movement of the sea. Observing the unique shape of each harmonic utterance – its attack, sustain and release – has a meditative and conditioning quality, and was inspired by my first attempts to compose again following the birth of my son, Naoise, during the first lockdown of 2020. While composing I drew heavily on imagery of the motion and contour of quiet waves near a shore, thinking on how to represent how the air and the sea take each other's inverted shape as their volumes meet when the waves rise and fall. Composed for LSO Soundhub Phase 1 and performed by players of the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke’s in March 2021.

I mBéal na Toinne (In the mouth of a wave)

kigi no ibuki (2022)

Brave New Waves interview with composer John Cage, 1989.

John Cage interview

Rare interview with Maryanne Amacher on WFMT radio, conducted in 1974 preceding performances of City-Links and Everything in Air at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Amacher discusses her telematic music, recordings of piers, and “no more horse”—the idea that antiquated forms of music with rhythms based on horses’ gallops have been replaced by a new minimalism.

Maryanne Amacher 1974 WFMT Radio Interview

variations 2101000 (@ 0'00"), 0111211 (@ 4'20"), 2321111 (@ 8'40"), and 3231110 (@ 13:00) from

a lot of tiles (trivial scan)

4096 variations on 256 tiles dedicated to Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Omar Lopez 

a performance-installation

score: http://www.unboundedpress.org/scores/a_lot_of_tiles_trivial_scan_score.pdf

code: https://www.github.com/mwinter80/a_lot_of_tiles_trivial_scan

a lot of tiles (trivial scan) - variations 2101000, 0111211, 2321101, and 3231310

Djimbala

Anian Wiedner - Organ - Royal College of Music - October 2020

Templum - Anian Wiedner

Andrew Forbes - Organ - Glasgow Cathedral - 7/12/20

Templum - Andrew Forbes

Templum - Alastair Stout

Composer based in London and Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music. https://www.jonathancolecomposer.com

Menhir

jonathancole

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