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Incidental Music for a Children's Book.
Illustration by Danny Clay.

Jackson's Lullaby, or, Storytime Theater Presents: We Came Here for the Fireflies (2013)

All the sounds created were produced using an Electric Viola and Logic.

Sketch Excerpt: Electric Viola

field recording, music box, piano, guitalele, feedback, cassette tapes

01.25.2014

Large-tailed Nightjars call repeatedly, along with katydids, crickets & frogs in the background.

Evening Rhythms

Evening Rhythms - Kuranda, QLD, Australia

 thought it would be interesting to remove the pulse from Reich's music for 18 and just have it play out as a ambient synth patch.I used NI Absynth for the patch.

Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians "Ambient"

The Refraction of Light and Other Objects: Part II

Excerpt from an improvisation for Electric Viola and Laptop featured in the Refraction of Light and Other Objects.

Performed by the Creek that Never Was:
Luis Escareño, electric viola
Danny Clay, electric odds and ends


The Creek That Never Was: Live Improvisation Electric Viola + Laptop

Prelude based on Bach's BWV 70 "Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele." for processed wine glasses.

Fragments from the Refraction of Light: Bach BWV 70

In Memory of Roy Queen

piano + processing

in losing thee we lost our brother

Erik Carlson - Violin
Karl Larson - Piano

Premiere of Still Life (No.1b) for violin

Recorded at Scholes Street Studio (5.5.2015) by Rene Allain

Still Life (No.1a + No.1b)

piano, voice and cassette tape
after a poem by Roy Doughty 
written for and performed by Anne Rainwater
Center for New Music, SF

11.19.2014 (wake)

Order CD + Digital here: https://futuresequence.bandcamp.com/album/subsiding 

Prominent Iranian artist Siavash Amini continues a triptych of works with ‘Subsiding’, an album of instrumental ambient drone. His most full and detailed sound to date illustrates Amini’s ability to bring together modern classical composition with that of controlled noise, granular synthesis, and atmospheric soundscape. Both monolithic and micro sound sculptures coexist within a perfect balance, a mix which makes for an all encompassing listen across the audio spectrum, funereal yet uplifting.

Complete with striking cover photography by Alex Kozobolis, “Subsiding” will be available on glass-mastered CD in digipack sleeves (run of 200) and digital formats.

Subsiding by Siavash Amini

Several frog species (Litoria peroni, Litoria rubella, Litoria latopalmata & Limnodynastes fletcheri) calling from a dam at Bowra Station, Queensland, Australia.


Frog Chorus in the Australian Outback

An absolutely beautiful track from the upcoming early December release from Polish composer and violinist, Olga Wojciechowska. From an album of music composed for various theater and film productions.

Olga Wojciechowska,  "Maps And Mazes",   I'm Never Not Thinking About You

"wake" by Danny Clay.
piano, voice and cassette tape
after a poem by Roy Doughty
written for and performed by Anne Rainwater, 11.19.14
Center for New Music, San Francisco

wake

Lacrimosa for solo piano was recorded in April of 2013.  I believe it is one of the most beautiful works Kirk has ever written and I love playing it. 

07 Kirk O'Riordan: Lacrimosa

oct2, 2016 - theorbo + processing

harmonica, Kansas City Motel 6 air conditioning + processing

oct5, 2016 - harmonica, Kansas City Motel 6 air conditioning + processing

MY GRAVE 
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

If, when I die, I must be buried, let 
No cemetery engulph me — no lone grot, 
Where the great palpitating world comes not, 
Save when, with heart bowed down and eyelids wet, 
It pays its last sad melancholy debt 
To some outjourneying pilgrim. May my lot 
Be rather to lie in some much-used spot, 
Where human life, with all its noise and fret, 
Throbs on about me. Let the roll of wheels, 
With all earth’s sounds of pleasure, commerce, love, 
And rush of hurrying feet surge o’er my head. 
Even in my grave I shall be one who feels 
Close kinship with the pulsing world above; 
And too deep silence would distress me, dead.

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