Common Tonalities is an exploration of Southeast Asian tuning systems and scales through modern music technologies for the creation of new music.

Presenting 20 new tracks from 20 musicians around Southeast Asia — from a series of workshops led by Khyam Allami.

Learn more about the project here: https://www.goethe.de/prj/nus/en/art/cmt.html

Tam Thi Pham – The Chant

for 12 voices
Latvian Radio Choir
cond. Kaspars Putniņš
Le temps scintille… –  poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke (several lines from The Duino Elegies) and Paul Valéry (again only some lines - from Le cimetière marin), whose basic atmosphere corresponds to the perception of the miracle of life – life is an airy shimmer, as twinkling time, in which we flow. The material of this work resembles speech melody; the multi-layered intonations and coloring of tone resemble the flow of sub-consciousness.


Paul Valéry
Le cimetière marin
The Graveyard By The Sea
Translated by C. Day Lewis
Rainer Maria Rilke
Duineser Elegien 
Duino Elegies
Translated by  A. S. Kline 

Le temps scintille et le songe est savoir.
[Time's air is sparkling, dream is certainty --
Pure artifice both of an eternal Cause.]

Et le ciel chante à l’âme consumée
[All bounds transfigured into a boundless air]

Wir nur ziehen allem vorbei wie ein luftiger Austausch.
[Only we pass everything by, like an exchange of air.]


Le changement des rives en rumeur.
[And I breathe now my future's emanation]

Sur mes yeux clos, secrets éblouissants,
[Secret which dazzles though mine eyes are closed]

Siehe, ich lebe, Woraus? Weder Kindheit noch Zukunft
werden weniger ....... Überzähliges Dasein 
entspringt mir im Herzen.
See I live. On what? Neither childhood nor future
grows less......Excess of being
wells up in my heart.]

Allez? Tout fuit! Ma présence est poreuse,
[All perishes. A thing of flesh and pore
Le don de vivre a passé dans les fleurs!
Into the flowers that gift of life has passed.]
nehmen immer Abschied
[and are always taking leave.]

Qu’un long regard sur le calme des dieux!
[Are the long vistas of celestial calm!]

Le Temps Scintille (2003)

Move is a 15’-Trio composition for tranh (vietnam traditional 16-string zither), bau (monochord), and Vietnamese guitar. Commission of Re-thinking Improvisation Festival. Premier at Re-thinking Improvisation Festival in Malmoe, Sweden 11/2011.

Move

This mix is original made for the danish Frost Festival. The requested a mix of light therapy.

Gem Club - Polly		
Ramin Djawadi - Dr. Ford (Westworld: Season 1) 
The Caretaker - The great hidden sea of the unconscious		
1900 - Den modernitet som aldrig kom	
Vault – Moment of death	
1900 - VI				
Min Stora Sorg - Blomstertid		
Osborn - Oyasumi 
Colleen - Soul Alphabet		
Colleen - Eclipse				
Ob - Sunlight		
Sun Araw - Ma Holo				
Radiohead - Talk Show Host	 (Djuna Barnes Edit)	
Pedro aguiar - Lost in You		
Julia Holter - Hello Stranger		
Wechsel Garland & World Standard - Solitude Sea		
Cliff Martinez - Falling off a Bicycle Plus		
July Skies - Southern Orchards					
July Skies - Coastal Stations		
Anouar Brahem & Jean-Louis Matinier - Le pas du chat noir		
Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire		
Murcof - Mes		
Heavenly Recordings - Chemical Trails (BTWS Re - Animation)

Step into the light, please

Red Madonnas Black Rivers - dan tranh and electronics (2019) Mix1

Trees, water, mountains, air, snow sunshine, gras, plants, the sky, lakes, the ocean, animals ... our world is beautiful. Why would you like to leave it? What could you possibly exchange it for?

Back to life

♥ on 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆

Back to Life

Midnight Memories

This song is about human sympathy. 
A thought experiment: You go to a restaurant with your family. Everybody is very hungry and orders food, but for some reason, only you get your food. Can you enjoy eating it while your loved ones are staying hungry? Your happiness is in this moment linked to theirs. When they are feeling bad because they are hungry, you cannot enjoy your meal properly. So you share what you have, because you feel sympathy. 
Where does this sympathy for others end? Where should it not end? Is the mere anonymity of the countless people who are starving, homeless, sick or working under terrible conditions a valid reason to not feel sympathy? 
In a globalized world, the unhappiness of some will lead to the unhappiness of those who exploit them and try to ignore it or not to think about it. By caring, everyone will benefit. 
In my song, I illustrate this mechanism of “your happiness is my happiness” in a very simple way. The piano melody is repeated unaltered four times. In the last repeat, the surrounding harmonies change. The feeling of the piano melody changes accordingly. For being part of an arrangement, a world full of other sounds, its feeling is determined by its surroundings. This is true for music as it is for life.

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Thanks to Jude Beck for the original photo on unsplash.com:
https://unsplash.com/photos/1UTjTz4w4xQ

Your Happiness Is My Happiness

This is improvisation piece. It was performed outside. 
Tam Pham: Đàn Bầu instrument and object
Vlatko Kucan: Saxophone
Pedro G. Fernandez: Violin
? Electronic

SPIIC Ensemble

See http://georghajdu.de/compositions/sleeplessness/

Sleeplessness

Tam Thi Pham is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser and performer. She completed her Bachelor of Musicology at the Vietnam National Academy of Music, a course in New Compositional Techniques at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg in the class of Prof. Helmut W. Erdmann. She is currently doing her Master in Multimedia Composition at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg with Prof. Dr. Georg Hajdu, Prof. Dr. Gordon Kampe, Prof. Alexander Schubert

SPIIC Ensemble

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