"La vita delle conchiglie" (for 2 performers and amplified ensemble) is the first piece of a cycle that deals with the world hidden inside the shells. The piece, as well as the whole cycle is somehow connected and inspired by a Francis Ponge's poem.
"La vita delle conchiglie" (The life of the shells) was premiered by the Ensemble Phace conducted by Nacho De Paz in the Wiener Konzerthaus on February 2021.

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On the occasion of the passing of Jon Hassell.

Fanfare (for Jon)

A one-off recording made while preparing the covers for the special edition 
CD "Zombi Traditions (37 Years)", in August of 2021.

Enjoy Your Beverage

“Two Duos” is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lee’s most recent OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jérôme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on Ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, it’s magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities.

On the A side Noetinger’s opening tape hiss establishes a current; an electrical partner who gives Lee room to slide across and stretch out. Progressively the cello is returned, duplicated and manipulated with increased velocity and distortion. Noetinger draws out the full extent of Lee’s extended technique; rewinding strands of Lee's horse hair and transmuting her percussive attacks into shuddering echos, before letting his own concrete interjections spin the duo's sonic tussle into an almost romantic daydream.

On side B the ondes (invented by French cellist and wartime radio operator Maurice Eugene Louis Martenot and so loved by Bernard Parmegiani, Varese and Messiaen) seems shaken from classical tradition and those long, drawn out horrorscapes it has come to be associated with. In a duel with Lee, Ratsimandresy grasps the ondes’ extraordinary capacity for dexterity, nuance and speed, hounding Lee’s cello in a bid to drive her instrument out of the past and into the future.

Two fantastic pairings and a testament to the freshness with which Lee and her collaborators continue to work with their instruments.

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Okkyung Lee / cello

Jérôme Noetinger / revox b77

Nadia Ratsimandresy / ondes martenot

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 28th March & Friday 29th March by Paul Skinner and Shaun Crook. Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Designed by Maja Larrson. ROKU027.

ROKU027 - Okkyung Lee / Jérôme Noetinger / Nadia Ratsimandresy - “Two Duos” [sample]

The online meetings we have all become accustomed to are often accompanied by the experience
of being distracted and drifting off into daydreams. In this piece, you will take part in a journey into
the mind of a host in an online meeting with multiple participants. You will hear how the ringing of
a phone, a car horn, or a glitch in the online stream trigger an irresistible sonic journey in which all
these events dissolve and abandon their old meaning to form new sound worlds that emerge from
their material.

Commissioned by Electric Audio Unit

DAYDREAMING (excerpt, Binaural)

Elisha Morningstar/Lorenzo Abattoir, Titled

unbuilt - oddsse

Mimo-Soto was recorded in London over two sessions in October and November, 2019

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Ken Ikeda / buchla music easel
Daniel Kordik / modular synthesiser and korg sequencer SG-10

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Mixed by Ken Ikeda and Daniel Kordik
Mastered by Daniel Kordik
Cover by Daniel Kordik

Earshots Recordings
Digital Editions
2020

Ken Ikeda   Daniel Kordík - Mimo - Soto - 04 D

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes is a book and sound project.
http://www.rienakajima.com/becomingsounds.html

becoming sounds - 30 objects 10 minutes

Composition made for the split release "Angry Ambient Artists Vol.2" published on Forwind label in 2017. It's a part of a diptych with the piece called Habitat. 

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AFTERMATH

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Lorenzo Troiani was born in Rome, Italy, in 1989. 
He studied composition with Salvatore Sciarrino, Clemens Gadenstätter, Gerd Kühr and Chaya Czernowin.
He attended lessons, masterclass and courses working with groups, musicians and composers who changed his musical perspective, among them: Beat Furrer, Mark Andre, Darius Przybylski, Luis De Pablo, Manfred Trojahn, Philippe Manoury, Johannes Schoelhorn, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough, Isabel Mundry, J.Manuel Lopez Lopez, Stefano Gervasoni, Francesco Filidei and Dmitri Kourliandski.
He has been awarded in several international composition competitions (Germany, Italy, Lithuania, China, Scotland, Spain etc.).
His music has been perfermed by different ensembles such as Neue Vocalsolisten, Quatour Diotima, Klangforum Wien, Schallfeld ensemble, Quartetto Prometeo, MDI ensemble, Ensemble L’Arsenale, Divertimento Ensemble, and in different parts of the world: Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Lithuania, Canada, Scotland, England, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain, Slovenia, Argentina, USA.
The poetry of Paul Celan, the writings and the works of Paul Klee and Jannis Kounellis, the reflection of Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger  have a crucial role in his music. 
He graduated in Philosophy at the University Uniroma3 of Rome with Paolo D’Angelo and Elio Matassi with a thesis on ontological thinking of Paul Klee. At the moment he is specializing in the study of post-Nietzschean ontology, especially in its links with the thought of the pre-Socratic thinkers.

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Lorenzo Troiani

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