really beautiful and powerful music! I would love to work on some brass music with you!

I cannot believe what I am hearing, just magical...to think you did this all with a string orchestra and no synths is mind blowing.

Very subtle music, Juste. I also experimented a bit with sound textures. The result (http://soundcloud.com/linusw81/elegy-for-strings) is based on 4ths instead of 5ths as in your piece and yet a bit shorter than yours. Have a listen to my other works, too, if you like.

Darkling

life on marx - recurring dreams (2022)

Written, performed, and mixed by Dmitri Koteshov. Primary mixing and mastering by Vlad Revtovich.

Electrical sea

A DAUNTING THING is a track from the cassette and digital release A RATIONAL WORLD (Numina Tapes, 2022).

A RATIONAL WORLD weaves field recordings, improvised music and climate activist statements into a fierce, joyful and poetic call to arms in times of ecological collapse. The music was created during the making of the experimental short film ANSAGE ENDE (vimeo.com/314525630) and was recorded inside an old barn on the farm of Gjalt Tjeerdsma in Beetsterzwaag, Friesland (NL). Both the film and this release dwell on the question how to live and fight in an ever more rapidly warming world.

“The seas are rising and so are we!”

This release features exclusive art work by artist Che Go Eun. The Limited Edition Cassette has its own exclusive design by the artist and was riso printed at Afreux (afreux.be).


REVIEWS

VITAL WEEKLY 1339
by Frans de Waard

That's a lot of names, and I assume a one-off project. During the recording of a short film, 'Ansage Ende', this group got together on a farm in the Dutch part of Friesland and recorded the ten pieces. Music and film are connected, even when the music is not necessarily the soundtrack (judging by the content, on vimeo...  more
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released May 23, 2022

The music was recorded at the farm of Gjalt Tjeerdsma in Beetsterzwaag. Field recordings were made during the Code Rood blockade of the NAM (NL), at the Hambacher Forest (DE) and in Friesland (NL). All material was recorded in 2018 for ANSAGE ENDE (vimeo.com/314525630), an award-winning short film by Sjoerd Leijten and Stijn Verhoeff.

Recorders: Verena Barié
Drums and synths: Gerri Jäger
Electronics: Sjoerd Leijten
Recording engineer: Malu Peeters
Field recordings: Sjoerd Leijten, Malu Peeters, Stijn Verhoeff
Editing: Sjoerd Leijten, Malu Peeters, Stijn Verhoeff
Mastering: Sjoerd Leijten
Cover art: Che Go Eun (chegocheck.cargo.site)
Riso printed at Afreux (afreux.be)

Released by NUMINA TAPES in 2022

A RATIONAL WORLD

Buy on bandcamp

A DAUNTING THING

Long-time collaborator Marco Lucchi provides sublime, longform pieces (most 15+ minutes), which Henrik has carefully imbued with his cello.

ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva

Featuring artwork from Luca Lionello, it touches on ancient mystic ideas and sentiment, attempting the impossible task of touching the sublime through art.

Suggestiva

CD & Download

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Il Regno E Il Giardino (Streaming Edit)

picture no. 1 | Album 'PICTURES, MINUTES AND SECONDS'

Single by Liis Ring from the upcoming album “Vaikelu” (Õunaviks), will be released 18th August 2023.

Digital and vinyl pre-orders:
https://liisring.bandcamp.com/album/vaikelu

Music and lyrics: Liis Ring
Cover photo by Liis Ring

Vaikelu

Languages of Love

Liis Ring – Languages Of Love

Wings

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers and PLAY IT LOUD :)

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics.
Based on a short film by Peter Tscherkassky (you can watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yASwqIWjaVI). 
Commissioned by Darmstadt Summer Course. Supported by Ulysses Network, co-funded by Creative Europe Programm.

Live Recording at Centralstation, Darmstadt 2018 
NIKEL Ensemble (Brian Archinal, Yaron Deutsch, Antoine Francoise, Patrick Stadler)
Sound Engineer: Alfred Reiter
Recording: Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Outer Space (2018), for video, 4 performers, and electronics [Please, use headphones!!]

Commissioned by the Lithuanian National Philharmonic for the concert series “Viva Musica Via Baltica” (Vilnius - European Capital of Culture) and composed for Sinfonietta Rīga

The structure of the two-layered score of “Elongation of Nights” reminds of the elongation of night while the day is getting shorter: one layer is setting down and getting quieter which makes way for the second layer that becomes louder and pulsates with elongating sounds. Every player has its own part (21 in total) similar to the echoes of a canon, thus such a monochromatic orchestra sounds like a utopian 84 string instrument. The harmony of the piece is based entirely on fifths, derived from the natural tuning of strings. Morton Feldman would have probably called such piece as “Fifths in my Life”.

Dedicated to autumning Vilnius.

Duration
8'30''

Recording
Released by the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre in 2010 in "Zoom in 8: new music from Lithuania".

Performers
Sinfonietta Rīga | cond. Normunds Šnē
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra | cond. Risto Joost or Robertas Šervenikas
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | cond. Garry Walker
National Chamber Orchestra of Moldova | cond. Robertas Šervenikas
Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra | cond. Rodrigo Tomillo                         
Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra Wroclaw | cond. Ernst Kovacic                                                                           Philharmonie Brno | cond. Maciej Tworek                                                                  String Orchestra of Brooklyn | cond. Eli Spindel   

"In the music of Justė Janulytė the sound unfolds as an autonomous event, with incredible lightness, as a confluence of energies, which transform it into increasingly dilated harmonies. No beat, no apparent rhythm, just the ‘deaf’ pulsation perhaps, a downtempo, as some kinds of the electronic music are qualified; the swelling of intensities, the saturation of space, and then eventual return to the state of calm, which is already different, marked and disturbed. The importance of material that found reflection in the titles of her works: Textile (for orchestra, 2006), Aquarelle (for choir, 2007), Silence of the Falling Snow (for two pianos, 2006), Endings (for 4 saxophones, 2005)... But the most important is metamorphosis, a very personal one and therefore instantly recognisable. This is not the telluric forces in Xenakis, or the atomic process in Ligeti, but rather an irradiant form. Elongation of Nights, the second score for string orchestra after the White Music, with which the composer made her public debut in 2004, gives a good example of such radiation. Some kind of timeless, floating metamorphosis. A strikingly innovative dramaturgy of sound..." Antoine Gindt | MUSICA festival brochure, 2011 

http://www.janulyte.info/en/works/elongation-of-nights/        

"Elongation of Nights" for string orchestra (2009)

Bit of an oldie that I decided to fix up. Oldschool-Knivtid!

Hoppas att allt är bra

The opening track from my new album Always There, Somewhere out now on Esc.Rec. 

The album charts a journey of personal discovery through friendship. It’s a record about finding answers in each other, rather than from only within ourselves.

Limited Edition Cassette + Digital Album

Always there, somewhere

The World Recedes

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

"Elongation of Nights" for string orchestra (2009)

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