Concert Recordings

Live performance of Kyle Hovatter's "En Los Bosques" for bassoon and pre-recorded track. Double Reed Society Convention, June 2013, Redlands, CA

Kyle Hovatter- En Los Bosques

Recorded live at Seventh Avenue Performances in San Francisco on December 13th, 2014 by recording engineer Nick Benavides
Jeff Dittmer, horn; Gabe Cruz, trombone; Jess Rodda, tuba

'Strength, my failing heart' by Kyle Hovatter

Program Note:
In E. L. Doctorow’s novel “Homer and Langley”, based on Manhattan’s notorious Fifth Avenue compulsively hoarding Collyer brothers, Doctorow first introduces his character Homer as he is losing his sight. Homer is keen to notice the gradual fade out. Individual details are lost, then whole images are distorted, and finally he is completely blind. In the darkness he can hear a sound made by an ice skater that was always present but never noticed: “a soft sound though full of intention, a deeper tone than you’d expect made by the skate blades, perhaps for having sounded the resonant basso under the ice, scoot scut, scoot scut.”
My deepest thanks to Lara Mitofsky Neuss and Justin Cummings for commissioning this three movement work.

Homer Collyer Blind, Mvt. 2

“Entrance” was written as an opener for the Twin Cities Trio and their regular tours in elementary schools. Wishing for a short piece that could act as a bridge between contemporary and classical music, Handel’s “Entree” from the Aylesford Pieces comes in and out of focus. This work is now published with Imagine Music Publishing. 

Entrance (2014) oboe, clarinet + bassoon - From Lara Mitofsky Neuss's  May 16, 2015 concert

Commissioned by Adam Cockerham and Mutable Music. Recording from the Interpretations series at Roulette in Brooklyn May 5, 2016

track ii(2016)feat. Adam Cockerham, theorbo

Based on the poem by Pablo Neruda, "En Los Bosques" is a dialogue between a bassoon and prerecorded audio. The track to "En Los Bosques" is a mix of personally made recordings. Congos, djembe, ukelele, pipe organ, and field recordings made in Mt. Tamalpais California are mixed with the voice of my good friend and fellow composer Kevin Villalta. My deepest thanks go to Susan Nelson and the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at the College of Musical Arts of Bowling Green State University for commissioning this work now published by Imagine Music Publishing.

track ii(2016)feat. Adam Cockerham, theorbo

KyleHovatter