On this episode we celebrate the release of ‘field anatomies,’ a collection of blisteringly physical works for flutes and electronics, featuring flutist and fearless leader of TAK, Laura Cocks. Laura and Charlotte Mundy speak with the composers featured on the album– David Bird, Bethany Younge, Jessie Cox, DMR and Joan Arnau Pamies–about space, time, embodiment, and magic. 

field anatomies comes out on Carrier Records today, February 22 2022!

Link to field anatomies:
https://lauracocks.bandcamp.com/album/field-anatomies

David Bird:
http://davidbird.tv/

Bethany Younge:
http://www.bethanyyounge.com/

Jessie Cox: 
https://www.jessiecoxmusic.com/

DMR:
https://www.dmr.land/

Joan Arnau Pamies:
http://pamies.info/

Laura Cocks: 
http://www.lauracocks.biz/

To learn more about TAK, go to 
http://www.takensemble.com/

022. Laura Cocks' Field Anatomies

CrossinLines ensemble

cassiel antón - trombone
florentin ginot · contrabass
feliu ribera · glockenspiel
luis codera puzo · conductor, electric guitar, modular synths

commissioned by the ernst von siemens musikstiftung

recorded and mastered by santi bargunyó and hugo romano from Neu Records

π · CrossingLines · codera puzo

"The Colors Don't Match" on Oor, released by TAK 2019.

The Colors Don't Match

Welcome to this special double episode with two of our Swoonfest artists! Charlotte speaks with Levi Lu and Jennae Santos about the exciting performances that they are each bringing to night 1 of TAK’s very own festival, Swoonfest, on Sept. 12 2025 at the Dimenna Center in NYC. 

To jump to Jennae's interview, go to 38:00

Get tickets for Swoonfest here: 
https://www.takensemble.com/tickets

Check out some of Levi Lu’s other work: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Au7P7KY5Q
https://levilu.bandcamp.com/track/electricity-as-blood
https://levilu.com/

Gushes’ forthcoming album Delicious Collision: 
https://gushes.bandcamp.com/album/delicious-collision-2

More of Jennae Santos’ work:
https://gushesmusic.com/
https://www.naesantos.live/

Donate to support TAK here: 
https://www.takensemble.com/support

045. Levi Lu and Jennae Santos (Gushes)

Velum (2016)
 for flute and piano
Flute: Zach Sheets 
Piano: Wei-Han Wu 
Performed at Firehouse 12 New Haven April 21st, 2016
Dedicated to New Music USA and Tallon Perkes Scholarship Fund

Program Notes:
Velum (2016) divides into two sections. In the first half, a frisky malleable texture flows. The extensive use of multiphonics in the flute and imprecise clusters in the piano tend to morph this flow of material. In the second half, the structure is twisted, as if we are hearing the other side of the same material, a thin vertebra, without the veil. As the second section unfolds, gradually layers of material is added to cover the exposed structure.
I consider Velum as a continuation of a series of chamber pieces I composed since 2012, whose titles carries the word “plastic” or “plastically.” In these pieces, I approach my material as a “plastic” or “malleable” object and like a sculptor forge the pieces by curving and adding layers to the rough core “plastic” material.


Velum (2016)-Ashkan Behzadi

May 12, 2011
Laura Cocks, Alto Flute
Eric Tinkerhess, Violincello

Marek Poliks : JUST SHUFFLING for alto flute and cello

Performed by Shannon Leigh, Kevin Price, Michael Hardin, Rob Francis, Henry Buck, Sofija Sibinovic, Peter Landry, Hannah Siegel, Natalie Calma, Clifton Ingram, Darren Sacks, Brendan Higgins
Conducted by David Vess
Electronics by Diana M. Rodriguez
Synth Patch by Peter Landry
IT and support by Hallie Smith
Recorded by Diana M. Rodriguez
Mixed and mastered by Murat Çolak

Recorded 11/30/2017 

Sendero de Rosas | 0:00 - 2:55
(feelings change) | 2:55 - 4:39
Micaela | 4:39 - 12:43

conticinio.
Del lat. conticinium.
1. m. p. us. Hora de la noche, en que todo está en silencio.
(http://dle.rae.es/srv/search?m=30&w=conticinio)
Pedazo Diez-Dos: Nadie podrá llevar por encima de su corazón a nadie ni hacerle mal a su persona aunque piense y diga diferente.

Cover Art: Jacquie Ordòñez, https://jacquieordonez.com/pedazo-diez-dos/

#umamibitch #macaroonpoopingbunny #🍥💩🐰

Conticinio

I. Desire
from Love, Crystal and Stone (2017)
a Song Cycle based on poems by Federico Garía Lorca

Composed for TAK Ensemble

Premiere: November 18, 2017, Music Gallery, Toronto

I. Desire
Based on “Escuela” and “Deseo” by Lorca

Escuela

Maestro
¿Qué doncella se casa
con el viento?

Niño
La doncella de todos
los deseos.

Maestro
¿Qué le regala
el viento?

Niño
Remolionos de oro
y mapas superpuestos.

Maestro
¿Ella le ofrece algo?

Niño
Su corazón abierto

Maestro
Decid cómo se llama. 

Niño
Su nombre es un secreto. 

	(La ventana
	 del colegio
	 tiene una cortina
	 de luceros.)
 
Deseo 

    Sólo tu corazón caliente,
Y nada más.

    Mi paraíso un campo
sin ruiseñor
ni liras, 
con un río discreto
y una fuentecilla. 

    Sin la espuela del viento
sobre  la fronda, 
ni la estrella que quiere
ser hoja. 

    Una enorme luz
que fuera
luciérnaga
de otra,
en un campo de
miradas rotas.

    Un reposo claro
y  allí nuestros besos,
lunares sonorous
del eco,
se abrirían muy lejos.

    Y tu corazón claiente,
nada más.

School

The Teacher
What maiden will marry
the wind?

The Child
The maiden of all
our desires.

The Teacher
What does the wind
give the maiden?

The Child
Whirlwinds of gold.
a pileup of maps.

The Teacher
And she gives him what?

The Child
Her heart laid bare. 

The Teacher
Tell me her name.

The Child
Her name is a secret.

	(The window
	 in the school
	 has a curtain
	 of stars.)

Desire

    Only your hot heart,
nothing more. 

    My paradise a field
without nightingales
or lyres,
with a little fountain
and a discreet stream. 


    Without the spur of the wind
on the branch,
without the star
yearning to be leaf.

    An enormous light
That longs to be
Mere firefly
of another,
in a field
of broken gazes.

    A bright repose,
and there our kisses,
sonorous beauty marks
on Echo’s face,
would open
far away.
    And your hot heart,
nothing more.

I. Desire (Excerpt From Love, Crystal And Stone)(2017)-Ashkan Behzadi

Fading in and out, the sounds and resonances emphasise our very own presence in the now. Re contextualising silence. Bringing the space together and letting it breathe. 

Written for and performed by TAK ensemble

Days Of Silence

Live concert recording by Vertixe Sonora (Clara Saleiro, Pablo Coello, Diego Ventoso, David Durán).

Unlike last month but like years ago and next July

Studio recording of Sad Music for Lonely People, Oct 2023. Matthias Engler and Gunnhildur Einarsdottir.

Marek Poliks : JUST SHUFFLING for alto flute and cello

LauraCocks

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