Some Light Remains

Directed and Composed by IWATA Wataru 
Visual programming by Ryo Kanda
https://vimeo.com/658530813

Two spherical mirrors reflecting the whole world face each other, and the eternally recurring process of reflection is a confrontation of ego and non-ego that continues until the point of convergence. When an individual included in the "whole" tries to recognize the "whole," it is forever unable to grasp the "whole," even if it tries to grasp it accurately, because it is included in the "whole." The work of mutual transformation that occurs when the "I" and the "other" face each other continues endlessly. Using each other as a mirror, we find, circulate, and permeate the image reflected in the mirror. The image reflected in the mirror is a projection of "I" and at the same time it reflects the world around me. In this way, the ego found in the mirror is at the same time the world (non-self) in the outside world, which dissolves into the "whole" through infinite r eflection.

The way in which the vision generated in the spherical mirrors develops into the "world" is this "world" itself, in which the image that arises inside of us develops

Sphere Stereo

here is one of my babies ...
May it bring #PEACE to the world!

PEOPLE, please consider DOING something instead of just talking about it!

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Artwork by Anika Krbetschek
Mastered by Zino Mikorey

Thanks to
Sylvia Klessen, Frank Kruse, Hanse Warns

recorded @ Pianotraum (Sylvia Klessen's piano workshop and store) in December 2021

Supported by GEMA

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Beyond - Single

''The creaking of our piano reminiscent of the back-and-forth mechanical motion of a loom at work, as musical threads are interwoven to create a whole greater than any single part. The melody is at once familiar but, as is often the way with memory, it transforms a little every time it’s revisited.'' - @petraleksander

🎧 https://moderna.ampl.ink/threads

Canadian minimalist instrumental label Moderna Records presents their annual piano day collection featuring twelve pieces from composers and pianists around the world. Their 2023 compilation 'Fractals' is centred around the upright piano, with a curation focused on the label’s signature melodic minimalism. The contributions were selected with great care, while showcasing each pianist’s unique flair on the instrument. Fractals includes pieces from Akira Kosemura (JP), Hiroco.M (JP), Jacob David (DK), Eik Octobre (DK), Ole-Bjørn Talstad (NO), Julia Gjertsen (NO), Sten Erland Hermundstad (NO), Mike Lazarev (UK), Pêtr Aleksänder (UK), Jozef De Schutter (CH), Felix Rösch (DE) and Nat Bartsch (AU). The series is mastered by Tom Adams in the UK and set to artwork by UK designer Iain Perry.

Fractals

Threads

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Pêtr Aleksänder - Threads

We're super thrilled to be partnering up with UK composer Barry Hudson-Taylor for the release of his forthcoming EP 'Kalmte' this September. Hudson-Taylor's new effort is a lush collection of downtempo piano pieces written in celebration of rest and slowness, undulating calmly throughout and sprinkled with hints of jazzy harmonies.

You're listening to the first single Places, out now on all platforms : https://moderna.ampl.ink/places

Kalmte

Places

Barry Hudson-Taylor - Places

Recorded on July 30 2014 in Budapest Hungary @ Mygar Radio Studio #22 with the Budapest Art Orchestra. 
Conducted by Peter Pejtsik....

https://adambryanbaumwiltzie.bandcamp.com/releases

The Endless Battle Of The Maudlin Ballade Part 3

from 'Machine To Machine' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den235
available in July on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso]

Following on from early 2015’s exercise in dissonant formalism “Sarava Exu”, “Machine to Machine”, Donoso’s newest full length work sees a return to a more melodic sound. “Machine to Machine”, continues to bridge the gap between Donoso’s more rhythmic and melodic work alongside his more experimental, loose and dissonant side yet still maintaining his unique signature feel; “WTF”-polymetric rhythms, elegant cinematics and spine chilling tension. Recorded over the last two years in between visual commissions and more through-composed heady works such as “Sarava Exu” and “A Song for Echo”, “Machine to Machine” represents Donoso’s return to the songbook format for the first time since 2012. 

Influenced by the work of Edward Bernays, Gustave Le Bon and Ernest Dichter - wherein past efforts have seen Donoso looking inwards, “Machine to Machine” has him looking outward - incorporating subliminal advertising techniques such as backmasking, ZMET and steganography, “Machine to Machine” is a meditation on priming with and without awareness and a treatise on the psychophysics of our contemporary age. 
“Machine to Machine”’s collection of songs are Donoso’s most versatile yet, incorporating all major elements from his discography into a unified album. There is something for everyone on “Machine to Machine”, and that is well the point, a vast range of emotion eliciting stimuli for your consumption.
 
RICARDO DONOSO is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston. After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, most notably playing drums for avant-death metal unit Ehnahre and being one half of the ever morphing electronic duo Perispirit. Ricardo's musical vocabulary draws as much from contemporary composition, drone, to techno and noise.


Machine to Machine

Ricardo Donoso - Dance of Attunement

They Took A Family Away Today

In case you haven't guessed it from listening, it's not an original piece, but rather a solo piano cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game". I really like the melody and in this rendering tried to play as lightly as I could, barely touching the keys at times...

Mike Lazarev plays Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"

Those Who Stay

My third album was released March 2013 on the Leaf Label.

http://music.juliakent.com/album/character
http://theleaflabel.com/juliakent

04 Tourbillon

Julia Kent