very good. Knot theory to Music and back. this really resonates with me.

Linda Catlin Smith

Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus (2020) for piano & transducers inside the piano. 
Performed by Marco Riccelli (der/gelbe/klang). Recorded by Asparuh Tashev at Villa Waldberta 17.06.2022.
The impact of the lockdown on nature was pronounced, as people were confined at home, animals began to feel freer in cities, pollution and noise levels decreased and birdsong became more audible. Confined at home, I began to watch starling flocks in my garden and listen to their (by my first-impression) non melodic songs. I wanted to capture their voices, turning them into a virtual instrument.
Composition Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus reflects on the idea of confinement. Piano part has a developed rhythmical language and is treated as a percussion instrument with prepared strings inside the big resonating box. Tiny speakers inside the piano play the brief starling calls which have a timbre function, creating a reverb and later a delay of a played instrument. Expanding its register the piece progresses keeping the dependency between piano and tape while symbolising a bird trapped between the strings, only making sound when struck by piano hammers but still hoping to break free.
Virtual instrument patch created by Kristijonas Naslenas.

Sturnus vulgaris cohibitus

My track for this week's Naviar Haiku Challenge. More on Naviar Haiku here:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/07/06/naviarhaiku444-in-the-late-blossom/

Dance in the Blossoming Sunlight

Dance in the Blossoming Sunlight - naviarhaiku444

SenSen  - Unmade

recording made on ableton with korg modwave, plogue bidule, nanoloop.

work in progress

Untitled #6

Mantra

Purport

The deification of light

AliceisPermafrost & Senglar - Au Hasard

Accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/MPWJg6z6M7o

a black dog
transformed into a lantern!
the way in snow

Haiku by: Author unnamed (from The Penguin Book of Haiku and Yanagidaru I)

More information: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

visuals (YouTube)

halF transformeD [naviarhaiku513]

Knotted Silk

Gold leaf

Uncertain

White Lace

Sleeping Lady

Elissa Poole, Baroque flute
Douglas Perry, viola
Richard Sacks, vibraphone

The Disposition of the Forms in Space

I compose concert music including solo works, chamber music and orchestral pieces.

Knotted Silk

Linda Catlin Smith

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