Name: Alexander Khubeev - Cryptocalypse (Yulia Migunova) [2013] by Alexander Khubeev
Duration: 7 min 18 s
Description: for violoncello, electronics and optional video

a vast and decaying appearance
withered and broken
spread thin
hanging on by a thread

distorted beyond recognition
dwindling in my view
a clouded shadow
on jagged stone

(ghost) - A Vast and Decaying Appearance

for violoncello, electronics and optional video

Alexander Khubeev - Cryptocalypse (Yulia Migunova) [2013]

The work is in two movements - Fraying and Prolonged. The first presents a sonic object that gradually disintegrates. The second reframes this object and slows it down, so that the process of decay is frozen, and the object appears almost immortal. The work grew out of reflections on 1 Corinthians 15 and Jiang Zhi's Love Letters (2014). In Jiang Zhi's photographs, flowers are on fire, but are not harmed by the flames.

Alto Flute - Isobel Doughty
Oboe - Caitlin Heathcote
Clarinet in B flat 1 - Heather Ryall
Clarinet in B flat 2 - Julia Raga Pascual
Horn in F - Karen Starkman
Trumpet in B flat 1 - Catherine Pollit
Trumpet in B flat 2 - Thomas Thornton
Tenor trombone 1 - Samuel Dye
Tenor trombone 2 - Jake Jones
Harp - Teresa Raff
Piano - Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Violin 1 - Kanon Miyashita, Tilman Fleig, Yuriko Matsuda, Zora Orfgen
Violin 2 - Camille Saïd, Anastasia Egorova Wise, Zoe Hodi
Viola - Michaela Bartošová, Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel
Violoncello - Lucy Neil, Pieter-Jan De Smet
Double bass - Jess Martin, Cole Morrison
Conductor - James Hoyle

Recorded in October 2018.

Reframe (2017)

Depicted is a picture of a picture of the RCA MKii synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center from an exhibit "Sounding Circuits: Audible Histories" shown at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. These were early days in the history of electronic music. "Summer Breeze" tries to capture some of that innocence (some folks may even hear a little Laurie Spiegel in this) before it all turned into a mad rave.
This is a case study on the virtues of very light modulation - the piece is based on the sound of Plait's chord mode, with the morph feature lightly set in motion by a 1.6 volt waveform from a Zadar envelope generator which scans a  wavetable very subtly

A World Beyond

Summer Breeze

Persevere 2

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NaviarHaiku 341 
Inspired by traditional Guqin music

A Fragrant Breeze

A Fragrant Breeze (NaviarHaiku 341)

Composed and performed by DD, July 2020.
Classical guitar
Uillean Pipes
Harmoniumn
Glockenspiel
String orchestra


Music for this hauku:

a cathedral of pines
rising into light
echoes of birdsong

Poem by Ian Turner
Image by Wahyu Priantara

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/08/12/naviarhaiku345-a-cathedral-of-pines/

Rising Into Light (naviarhaiku345)

Live improvisation by
Daniel Diaz, electric bass
André Charlier, drums

For this Haiku:
"two voices that sound alike
make their way...
clouds of blossoms"

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Photo by Igor Karimov

Alexander Khubeev - Cryptocalypse (Yulia Migunova) [2013]

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