"musica assoluta" (settembre 2021)

Novità e di tendenza: Classica

King's College London

Sinfonietta

New Music 5

Vapours

Marco Lucchi : piano

1 settembre 2021

field recordings by *felixblume*
https://soundcloud.com/felixblume/cicada

La bella estate

A small sample of an Expanded Cinema Event performed as part of the Clarenece City Council's Winter Series 26/08/21. Was a top night. Official press blurb below and link lo live video footage and original film after that. : )

Discontinued Space: The Cinema of Maya Deren 
An Expanded Cinema Event 

Live at The Rosny Barn 26/08/21

Dani Kirby      Piano/Voice
Mat Ward       Bass/Intonarumori/Percussion     
Dylan Banks   Intonarumori

Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) is considered one of true pioneers of experimental film yet unlike many of the film makers she influenced ( Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch) her work is rarely experienced outside of academic and film school environments. As part of Kirby and Ward’s continuing investigation into the important (and often overlooked) role of women in the history of Contemporary Art  Discontinued Space: The Cinema of Maya Deren will present several of Deren’s short movies with original live scores written by Kirby, Ward and Banks.

Deren employed a vast array of cinematic devices (looping, reversing, overlaying and time manipulation) to create vignettes that focused on graphic and kinetic form rather than straightforward narrative. Conceptually the work examines rhythm, isolation, social constructs, movement and ritual, all of which is underpinned by the notion of the inner world and its disconnection from the space of everyday life. 

It is the conceptual framework of Deren’s cinema that informs the scores produced for this project. Rather than compositions that ‘soundtrack’ the  action and the visual imagery the music reflects and explores Deren’s philosophical beliefs and her desire to immerse her audience in a world that is barely hinted at in everyday life yet sits just under the skin of reality. 

The performance by Kirby, Ward and Banks showcases the 7 major short films Deren produced from 1943 to 1958.

https://vimeo.com/595121466
https://vimeo.com/595129696

A Witch's Cradle (1943 Maya Deren) LIVE - Kirby/Ward/Banks

Ana Foutel - Piano 
Dararat Chemnasiri - Alto Sax , Water Sax 
Bruno Gussoni - Shakuhachi 
Vanessa Pettendorfer - Tenor Sax 
Dirk Wachtelaer - Drums
King Imagine - Sub, ,FX, objects, water percussion

King Imagine Online Sextet -Mysterious  Water

An old "live-in-the-studio" improvisation (circa 2012) 
by
miguel yanover: soprano saxophone
daniel diaz: bowed upright bass, treatments

rediscovered and reworked for this haiku:

⠀
cicadas⠀
the stillness⠀
begins⠀
⠀
poem by andrea cecon

photo by jack b.



@yanomito
@naviar-records

Stillness (naviarhaiku400)

Cuore

perf. by the National Estonian Symphony orchestra, cond. Olari Elts
concert recording / 10.9.2021

Commissioned by Musica femina München and composed for the Münchener Kammerochester, cond. Clemens Schuldt

"Hier ist alles Abstand, und dort wars Atem". R.M.Rilke. Die achte Elegie

Following the series of my aquatic pieces, “Apnea” (in latin “absence of breathing”) for string orchestra, written during the pandemic winter, reflects the importance of breathing whilst exploring the physical and emotional transformation during the immersion under the water. The macro form of the composition reminds of a very long breath-in and a gradual breath-out stretching the time in between while continuing to delay the climax and increase the tension until the limits. The orchestra is playing without any pause taking both the players and listeners through the existential odyssey.

"Apnea" for strings (2021)

Marcia Scozzese di L v Beethoven 
Arrangiamento con chitarra classica, oboe e violoncello.

Ecossaise WoO 23 Lv Beethoven

Cream And Berries

Moments of Peace - Spa Healing Soundscapes, Ambient Music for Massage and Spa Treatments, Deep Relaxation Music Therapy

Temple Spa

FRAGILE II for clarinet in B  doubling clarinet in Es, soloist Emil Visenescu, conductor Gheorghe Costin, National Radio Orchestra, 
recording from the concert , 27.05.2016

FRAGILE 2 for clarinet and orchestra (2015)

Written for Goska Isphording&Maciej Frąckiewicz and commissioned by the Musical Aspiration Foundation (PL), co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (programme Composing Commissions, implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance) with the support of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union.

In this piece two instruments of a very different or even opposite origin and acoustic nature are melted into a monolithic “monochrome” mechanism, as if constructing a utopian instrument with characteristics of the harpsichord and accordion. The idea of such composition came from a play on words, only changing a sequence of letters in an English name of the harpsichord: harpSIchord – harpISchord. “Harp” is being read as an arpeggio (e.g. a technique asking to play chord notes in succession upwards or downwards), while “chord” is perceived as a synchronous entrance of all the chord sounds together. In this piece the two indivisible phases of sound – sound attack and resonance – are being separated in a sense of timbre. The first one is obviously assigned to the harpsichord, which naturally has almost no resonance, and the second one clearly belongs to the accordion, dynamically raising sounds from the silence. By the way, the principle of duality/opposites is expressed also through a special use of double keyboards which both instruments have whilst the diatonic white-keys harmony comes from the “eolian (wind) harp” sound.

Justė Janulytė

At van Abbe Eindhoven

"Harp is a Chord" for harpsichord and accordion (2016)

performed by Marin Cazacu and Violoncelissimo ensemble, conductor Dorel Pascu

The Eternal Return (2000) for 8 celli

Doina Rotaru - "Legend III" (2018) for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
SonoMania Ensemble: Valentin Ghita (ob), Mihai Pintenaru (cl), Raluca Stratulat (vn), Eugen-Bogdan Popa (cello), Mihai Murariu (pno)
Live concert recording from the world premiere, 3Sound Festival, Bucharest, Sutu Palace, 22.09.18

Legend III - SonoMania

Doina Rotaru: VIVARTA for string quartet (2009)
ARCADIA Quartet - Ana Török (vn), Răsvan Dumitru (vn), Traian Boală (vla), Zsolt Török (cello)
Live recording from the "George Enescu" International Festival, September 2017

Vivarta - Arcadia Quartet

Written for and performed by OFF (the French Flute Orchestra)- conductor Pierre Alain Biget.The work is written for  24 flutes (10 fl in C, 6 alto fl, 6 bass fl, 2 dble bass fl)and  and pre-recorded sounds. 5 different Stained Glass windows inspired by a Catholic Cathedral , Byzantine music and shakuhachi Buddist monks music. World premiere in Paris, Moliere Theater, 20.01.2004

5 VITRALII/ 5 Stained Glass Windows ( 2003) for 24 flutes and electronics

Programme note

The piece is written in the style of pure repetitive minimalism, the texture is based on the counterpoint of regular pulsations. The choir is split into four micro-ensembles by regulating the texture clarity-density level and interpreting the old tradition of cori spezzati. The harmony is based on the slow sequences of diatonic scales, imitating overlaps of watercolour hues without distinct beginning/end outlines. The piece does not contain verbal text, only mormorando and vowels; hence there is no sound attacks paralleled with consonants of the verbal text. The only gesture in this piece - the sound emerging and submerging into silence, as if a tip of the iceberg revealing only small part of what the hearing cannot grasp, but may be able to imagine.

Perf.  by Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, cond. Paul Hillier             

"Aquarelle" for choir (2007)

Le pois chiche a roulé sa bosse. Arrivé à son pic de popularité ces dernières années car riche en protéines et en minéraux, le pois chiche est connu pour ses propriétés nutritives et s’avère très utile dans un régime sans viande. Poichichade, houmous, dans le couscous ou les falafels et même en farine et en eau… Le pois chiche se décline et se mêle un peu partout. Mais cette légumineuse modeste souvent présentée comme issue de la cuisine méditerranéenne possède aussi une histoire culinaire et sociale multiséculaire à cheval sur l’Inde, l’Asie et le Moyen-Orient. 

Émilie a d’abord rendu visite à Raphaëlle Jorgensen de la structure Virevent, agricultrice qui cultive des pois chiche près de la commune de Oraison en Provence. 

En deuxième partie, Joan Weisz-Myara fondateur de Street Press et vendeur de houmous à ses heures perdues vient parler de sa passion pour cette préparation onctueuse dont il donne (presque) la recette. 


Références entendues dans l’épisode : 


Pierre-Brice Lebrun, Petit traité du pois chiche, Éditions du Sureau, 2011. 

Whole Food Magazine, “Whole Foods Market Releases 2021 Trends”, octobre 2020. 

Raphaëlle Jorgensen et son mari Christian cultive 28 hectares dans le domaine de Virevent en Provence. 

L’atelier de préparation de Joan Weisz-Myara,  Houmous’Joe est ouvert le jeudi et le vendredi le midi et le soir à Montreuil au 219 rue Étienne Marcel. 

Robert Bistolfi, Farouk Mardam Bey et Odile Alliet, Traité du pois chiche, Actes Sud, 1998. 


Bouffons est un podcast de Nouvelles Écoutes que j’anime avec l’aide en coulisses de Laura Cuissard et les coups de main de Clara Matet. Montage par Ashley Tola
Mixage par Thomas Decourt. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu.

Bouffons #109 - Le pois chiche,  légumineuse lumineuse

Music in a global context: Dr Katherine Schofield talks to us about classical music from India and how Hindustani music has been so influential. Discover more as part of your ethnomusicology modules on your BMus.

Spotlight on ... Classical Indian music

The works of Justė Janulytė claim to build a "monochrome music" collection: they explore time-space perception through large-scale multilayered textures and extremely gradual metamorphoses. Justė Janulytė's catalogue, balancing between the aesthetics of minimalism, spectralism and acoustic electronica, has become one of the most fascinating focal points in the contemporary musical world. (Universal Music Publishing Classical) 

More on www.justejanulyte.com

"Apnea" for strings (2021)

Juste Janulyte