Live performance of Beat Furrer's "Voicelessness (The Snow Has No Voice) at the Bang On a Can Summer Institute. Recorded on Thursday, July 18th 2013 in the galleries at MASS MoCA.

Beat Furrer - Voicelessness (The Snow Has No Voice)

in D. (all 4-parts in the same couple octaves)

tip-jar: http://goo.gl/G5OKbM

2013.08.07-v2

I composed the piano part of this as improvisation over some of the most powerful voicemails I had translated from speak2tweet during the start of the Jan25 revolution.   The rest of the material comes from my cousin's wedding in Cairo the weekend of April 22-24 and other field sounds taken from Tahrir Square that I recorded as well as Khan El Khalili and Naguib Mahfouz Cafe.  The zaffa at the end... hope for a new Egypt.  I love you Egypt.  The sounds here all come from voice mails from speak2tweet, Tahrir Square, Khan El Khalili and other Cairo noise.Piano improv by Donia Jarrar.


Tahrir Squares movement 1

Still Life no. 1 for Solo Piano by Matt Evans
Studio Recording in Chelsea, NYC
Recorded by Adrian Knight

Matt Evans - Still Life No. 1 for Solo Piano

This piece is entitled Assemblage, and is the music for the Sunset + Music events. It is designed to be played beginning 10 minutes before sunset.

Sunset + Music

more music on white keys

tip-jar: goo.gl/G5OKbM


2015.11.14

Timestretched to the length of the longest recording. Now available for download / vinyl: https://heyexit.bandcamp.com/album/every-recording-of-gymnopedie-1

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Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1

Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories" (1981). Recorded live at the Contagious Sounds Series on March 19, 2013. 

Morton Feldman - Triadic Memories

“Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.” - Morton Feldman

"...when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge." - Jackson Pollock

"I never thought of music as a challenge - you always figure the audience is at least as smart as you are. You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful." - Lou Reed

"I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes." - Leonard Bernstein


2013.08.07-v2

James.Holt