Beautiful piece. I love the spaciousness and delicate exploration of timbre.

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This is from 2010 - commissioned and performed by Eclectica Trio (Amanda Lovelock, Anna Coleman and Charise Altmann).
The clarinets take on the role of storyteller for this piece – they growl like a wolf, squeal like a pig, and huff-and-puff with increasing vigour to blow the house down. Unfortunately, they do it all in the wrong language (“this contemporary music just sounds like random notes to me!”). Will you still be able to follow the story? Don’t stress, it all ends happily ever after.

The Three Little Pigs

old beat, up on bandcamp. 

o.g. - https://goo.gl/Ad4XbG

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summer's day. [v2]

Ensemble SurPlus:
Erich Wagner (conductor)
Martina Roth (flute)
Joshua Löhrer (bass clarinet)
Olaf Tzschoppe (percussion)
Stefan Häussler (violin)
Sylvie Altenburger (viola)
Johannes Burghoff (violoncello)

Sebastian Schottke (recording engineer) 
Guibal-Saal, Akademie Schloss Solitude
August 2015

the use of headphones is recommended to perceive some of the nuances of timbre

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...on the intended blankness, I see without seeing.




...sur fond blanc (2015)

Tracings for flute and live electronics explores the changing timbral qualities of single notes and the way that this can be combined to create shifting textures. In a way it reveals how simplicity can harness great colouristic potential in regards to sound, but also creates a warm and aesthetic wash of sound.

This piece traces some of the ideas presented in Takemitsu’s article One Sound as well as in his perception of sound: 

The perception of sound, while depending on its strength, duration and pitch, is actually influenced more fundamentally by the characteristic of sound that takes as its composite factors all of these and yet is larger than their sum, that of timbre.

My perception of time in traditional Japanese music
Toru Takemitsu

It explores these ideas in the context of flute and electronics, uncovering the timbral nuances of each gesture in the live flute and combining these to create a sound world that changes in extremely subtle ways. 

Performed by Jeremy Tatar

TRACINGS

flute and violin with electronic processing
played by Maddie Remont and Harry Nguyen
using Jeff Noon's Cobralingus Engine

cobralingus art run 1

String Quartet No. 2 in E minor by Connor D'Netto
recorded live @ MICMC 2015 - 18 Jul 2015

Winner of the Australian New Works Award, presented by Chamber Music Australia

Performed by the Noga Quartet, winner of the 7th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition

String Quartet No. 2 in E minor - live @ MICMC 2015

Minimalist saxophone quartet recorded at Melba Hall at the University of Melbourne. 
The Jive is a lively piece in three sections. It employs minimalist techniques such as canon, adding rhythmic cells, cross-fading, resulting patterns and mensuration canon. Some of these techniques are used more freely than in strict minimalism. I experimented with different canonic textures and the resulting patterns created when shifting motives between the different saxophones. Motives in rhythmic unison as well as cross-rhythms are explored in the last part of the piece. Dynamic swells and funky rhythms make The Jive somewhat unpredictable…

The Jive

I. Suddenly for soprano, flute, and piano (A. Mellos 2014)
Madeline Cain, soprano; Daniel Pesca, piano; Caroline Sonett, flute
Live recording, November 12, 2014 Kilbourn Hall, The Eastman School of Music


I. Suddenly from 'Three Poems of Yannis Ritsos' - for soprano, flute, and piano

Performed May 14, 2016 by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano as part of the Metropolis New Music Festival. Commissioned by the MSO with support from the Cybec Foundation. 

Copyright of this recording is owned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and ABC Classic FM. The relevant permissions have been obtained to share this excerpt. Any duplication, distribution or broadcast of this recording is strictly prohibited.

City of Ghosts (excerpt)

Tambuco Percussion Ensemble:
Ricardo Gallardo
Alfredo Bringas
Raúl Tudón
Miguel González

Recording Engineer: Kimmo Vennonen

Smell of the Earth (percussion quartet)

Performing Saariaho's sept papillons, first movement, for solo cello.

Saariaho- Sept Papillons Mvt 1

Improv- tailpiece

Silken Samarkand Ruan Solo

for two flutes, percussion, piano
Music X, Blonay, Switzerland
July 2010
Timothy Munro and Pethrus Gardborn, flutes
Jeremy Malvin, percussion
Erika Dohi, piano

These dark notes drifting takes its title from a poem by 9th-century Chinese poet Li Po.  Inspired by a Chinese folk tune, the piece evokes distant flutes, coloured by the sounds that one might hear across a valley at night in the spring.

Spring Night in Lo-Yang hearing a flute
In what house, the jade flute that sends these dark notes drifting,
scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-Yang?
Tonight if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
who could help but long for the gardens of home?

These dark notes drifting

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