Spare severity in a prehistoric mode.

Benjamin Fingland, bass clarinet
Daniel Lippel, classical guitar
Caleb van der Swaagh, cello

Featured on the New Focus Recordings album "Against Method" (FCR 278). Uploaded with permission. www.newfocusrecordings.com

Against Method

Before

I'm Your Biggest Fan (2024)

Trē Abalos – flute
Jay Rauch – bassoon
devon osamu tipp – shakuhachi 
Danny Fratina - trumpet
Jason Belcher – baritone horn 
Ethan Isaac – tenor and seaboard 
Hannah Standiford – soprano and banjo 
J. Juwon Adenuga – melodica 
David Adepegba – drum set
Emmanuel Berrido – conducting

Performed December 3, 2023, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, University of Pittsburgh

Big Band Music

Inspired by the self-interrogation of to what extent we can claim authenticity as an internal outcome in a world where our senses are continuously bombarded by external factors, "(ex+in).(ternal)" is an attempt to relax the presumed boundaries of artistic creation. This piece asks: what happens if we welcome those tensions and let those rays of interference infuse into composition itself? As the focus of the work is set free, the musical conflict that emerges from these two processes plays out as a celebration of the interplays between inspiration, imitation, and insecurity.

(ex+in).(ternal)

Panic (2024)

Spirit (1989) by Paulo Ferreira-Lopes, for guitar;
Live on RCSMM June 2023;
Audio captured by video camera.

Spirit I - Paulo Ferreira-Lopes (live) [camera audio]

No Worries (2024)

Diego Tedesco’s De los Sos Ojos was commissioned in 2022 and is an open score in which Cappa has enough freedom to display her histrionic virtuosity. Tedesco writes, “Distortion, nonsense and limits of comprehension are part of the work, and the multiple types of reverb add a layer of polyphony that complement and challenge the entire piece.”
It's part of the album "Una" by Argeninian soprano Natalia Cappa realized by New focus recordings (NY).

De los sos ojos (2023)

I am a composer living in Philadelphia. I am a founding member of the astute New York-based new music ensemble, counter)induction. Among others I have written for ensembles E-MEX (DE), Oerknal (ND), PART Ensemble (DE), Prism Saxophone Quartet (US), and the University of Michigan Saxophone Orchestra. as well as Daniel Lippel (guitar),  Evelyn Degen and Matthias Geuting (flute and organ), Jessica Meyer (viola), Caleb van der Swaagh (cello) and Tom Pauwels (guitar).

Before

Kyle Bartlett

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