very nicely done lara....  interesting throughout....

Very high quality program music style composition! I've always felt a connection to nature in music since the day I first listened to this kind of composition like Debussy & Ravel.

an truly wonderful way to spend 10 minutes, quite an inspired work.

I really appreciate the craft and skill that was put into writing this. Thank you.

Outstanding mood work, greatly enhanced by use of real instruments.  I love this!

Kaamos

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain conducted by François Lopez- Ferrer
Recorded live in Huddersfield on November 19th, 2022
Publishing: Maison ONA

Le lieu et la formule (2019 - rev. 2022) for large ensemble

This piece was initially inspired by blue glacier ice.  It involves contrapuntal ideas, transformations of melodic gestures and textural painting.  The recording is by Sound Icon- in this case the instrumentation is flute, oboe, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, violins 1 and 2, viola, cello and contrabass.  

Blue Ice

For Ensemble. Based on the text Kali décapitée by Marguerite Yourcenar. Exploring the concept of inescapability of sexual desire vs the wish for serenity. 

Casa da Música - Remix Ensemble, cond. Peter Rundel. Commissioned by Casa da Música as Young Composer in Residence 2016

Désir t'a appris l'inanité du désir

make me uncomfortable.

Winner of 2018 Toru Takemitsu Composition award.

Recorded live on 27 May 2018 in the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yoichi Sugiyama.

Preview/purchase score: www.barnabymartin.com/quanta
Find out more: www.operacity.jp/en/concert/award/result/result2018/index.php

Quanta

Download: https://kud.li/campfr101

This is the first in a series of releases generated via the program of sound, music and arts residencies at Fuse Art Space's remote mountain arts facility, CAMP. Opened in April 2018, CAMP hosts residential workshops in the high French Pyrenees with the world's most acclaimed composers, performers, artists and writers - sessions in 2018 have been lead by Chris Watson, Gavin Bryars, Anne Bean, Eli Keszler, Laraaji and others.

La Rivière et la Forêt was created during Gavin Bryars' residential CAMP course in April 2018. Arriving in Aulus les Bains, Lara noticed the omnipresence of the sound of the river, and decided to work with that sound. Seeking sound away from the river, Lara hiked the forests recording birdsong, forest rivulets and the tin rooves of abandoned shepherd's huts. Working with Audiosculpt and Reaper, the resulting field recordings were blended with sound from the village to create a piece which exposes both the primary sounds of this diverse sonic landscape and a sense of Lara's time spent in the village.

Photography: Sarah Faraday

Lara Poe - La Rivière et la Forêt

Written in response to John Constable's Seascape Study: Boat and Storm Sky, 20 July 1828; as part of the Royal Academy of Arts' 'In Tune with the RA Collection'. 

Bass Clarinet - Jonathan Leeds
Bass Guitar - Matthew Lomax

'Drowning In The Din...' responds to how Constable's coastal scene balances areas of the naked canvas with raw, animated brushstrokes. 

The exposed framework of the painting is reflected in the subtle clicks, breathes, shakes and buzzes that reverberate from the frameworks of the bass clarinet and bass guitar; and the vibrant gesture of the brushstrokes influenced the live electronics which consist of brushstroke recordings, triggered and manipulated in response to how the two instruments move and interact.

Drowning In The Din... - Bass Clarinet, Bass Guitar and Live Electronics [2018]

Finnish-American composer, PhD student at King’s College London. RCM and BU CFA graduate.  
2021 Ivors Composer Award nominee, Rostrum 2021 participant, 2020 Sinfonia Lahti Nursery Garden Initiative, LSO Panufnik Scheme participant 2018-2019, 2019 Tanglewood Music Center Composition Fellow.  Managed by Blom Music Management.  Published by Fennica Gehrman.

Blue Ice

Lara Poe

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