Usually, the Bahnar gong ensemble consists of three bossed gongs and seven to ten flat gongs. Each of the gong players holds and hits a gong tuned to a different pitch, including octaves, repeatedly with variation of timing to create an interlocking pattern. This produces something akin to melody and rhythm. Generally, the players of the flat gongs are responsible for the melody, while those playing the bossed gongs handle the accompaniment. In addition, one ensemble member plays a large, double-sided drum to lay down the basic beat.

In funeral rites, the sound of gongs functions as a bridge connecting the land of the living to the world of the dead, and they play gongs at the house of the deceased all through the night.

This is a excerpt from "Music of the Bahnar People from the Central Highlands of Vietnam" Sublime Frequencies 2016 (SF107)
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/products/576940-music-of-the-bahnar-people-from-the-central-highlands-of-vietnam

Gong Playing in Funeral(Excerpt)

for organ, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, 2 percussionists
First performance: 1 April 2017 - Orgelpark, Amsterdam

"Ninety-five" for the Ives Ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag & Ere Lievonen

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

Eclipse Plumage (2019), for amplified ensemble and electronics
Commissioned by Daniel Walden, for Ensemble Oerknal
World Première: 4 September 2019, Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Daniel Walden, prepared piano
Chris Swithinbank, objects
Christian Smith, percussions
Jellantsje de Vries, violin
Raphaella Engelsberg, viola,
René van Munster, cello,
Daniel Boeke, bass clarinet, objects
Susanne Peters, flute, objects

Eclipse Plumage (2019), for amplified ensemble and electronics

Bird (Naviarhaiku 330)

I recorded some sounds on my vacation and mixed it with my cello, enjoy!

Sommarlovsmeditation

Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz, July 2020.

Stratocaster electric guitars
Synthesizers
Electric piano
Acoustic guitars
Ukulele
Voices

Music for this haiku:

All across the sky
A star has burned itself out
Above the cold sea
 
 https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
@naviar-records


haiku by Inan
photo by jeremy thomas

all across the sky  (naviarhaiku340)

The Finns loves everything that goes with a combustion engine. In the spring making firewood with a chainsaw is a must and the absolute most dominant sound of summer is the infernal noise from the lawn mowers. No so small lawn at a holiday house that it couldn't be cut one's a day or even twice.

From an over-night recording nearby, a little shortened.

(MKH8020 ab60cm, 32>24/48, no processing, 24 bit flac)

Fishing boat, Herring Gull, Barn Swallow

Jan Eerala Finland

Finnish Summer - 16/7/2020 - Makholma Shore

In a beautiful place

Harvest song sung also during weddings. Originally sung by polish migrants from Balkans. 

Pieśń żniwna śpiewana także podczas wesel, od reemigrantów z byłej Jugosławii mieszkających na Dolnym Śląsku.

Śpiew:
Marta Derejczyk
Joanna Gancarczyk
Joanna Skowrońska

Kust - Žito Žela

Rejected orchestral piece for a music score (publisher's call), quite naive and straight forward.
Piano, upright bass and flute, full orchestra (string, brass and woodwind experimenting with several orchestral libraries).

Composed and performed by Daniel Diaz 2020.

Reworked and remixed on Thursday October 22nd 2020 inspired by this haiku:

wind tunnel . . .
a hummingbird fans
the morning glory

poem by kala ramesh
photo by pradeep ghildiyal uIou


https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/10/21/naviarhaiku355-wind-tunnel/

Morning Wind -  naviarhaiku355

Kompozycja Baskaka i zespołu Niewte na podstawie polskiej melodii tradycyjnej.
Niewte:
Baskak (Antoni Beksiak): elektronika, głos, gwizdanie, przedmioty, dżaz
Maniucha Bikont: głos, klarnet, piszczałki, instrumenty różne, przedmioty
Maciek Filipczuk: skrzypce
Marcin Lorenc: skrzypce, basy
Produkcja: Andrzej Izdebski
Mastering: Jacek Gładkowski
Okładka: emkazno+baskak
Projekt dofinansowany z funduszy m.st. Warszawy

Osmętnica electronica

Ośmiokąs

Współczesne dźwięki obrzędów.

Traditional ritual music and it's sound enviroment. Also a space for experiments. Mainly from Poland and Polissia. 

Skład:
Marta Derejczyk- śpiew, wiolonczela
Joanna Gancarczyk - śpiew
Rafał Kołacki - elektronika, gongi, dzwonki, piszczałki, róg
Joanna Skowrońska - śpiew
Tadeusz Skowroński - gitara, procesory sygnału
Mikołaj Zieliński - gitara basowa, gitara, super ego

Kust - Žito Žela

KUST

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