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Shattering whispers, secrets, hideous children

Alice Kemp has a new album due to be released by Coherent States in autumn 2021.

/// UPDDATE ///  'TO ALL MY HIDEOUS CHILDREN' RELEASED JULY 2022. DIGITAL, CASSETTE, AND BLACKENED BOX EDITIONS.


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To All My Hideous Children

Grotesque III

Environment, piece for symphonic orchestra with ensemble

Premiered at the Ostrava Days Festival 2021 by Ostrava New Orchestra (ONO)

Conductors: Jiří Rožeň, Ondřej Vrabec

Ensemble: Lucie Vítková - accordion, harmonica, voice and feedback, Jiří Havrlant - harpsichord, Daniel Skála - cimbalom, Daan Vandewalle, Alexandr Starý - piano, Kristýna Švihálková, Jan Nepodal - percussion

2. Lucie Vítková_Environment

part 2/13 on my project gathering Hildegarde Von Bingen & Pauline Oliveros

Atomic Imagery - Rotating Molecules - Particles Dancing - Instantly Vanishing / O Rubor Sanguinis

Program Notes:
Listen for the subtle,  short, interrupted sine waves within electronics that cause the speakers themselves to emit ‘pops’ and
crackles, interrupting the acoustic instruments and tape playback. We’re not hearing the sine wave but rather the effect of the sine wave on the speaker’s mechanics turning the speaker itself into an acoustic element; thus giving these objects an active role rather than accepting them as a passive (playback) tool. Usually this treatment is avoided and seen as a mistake but in this piece it functions to address the physical mechanics of the speaker, of its own body, and demanding it to become more. To add to this, the percussionists are playing custom made “speaker-instruments:” subwoofer speaker cones transformed into an open air (and in a sense, large contact) microphone. This configuration allows the percussionist to physically perform low resonant tones and high washes of live filtered noise not possible outside this setup, with the hope to merge electronic and acoustic instruments into one composite organism, dependent on this merging to become more than just an extension of itself. The live processing portion of the work is that of rapid panning of the live acoustic instruments between two stereo speakers. This panning reaches audio rates and thus from this rapid oscillation causes its own square wave-like tone: the electronics sounds blooming from the acoustic in a symbiotic, intertwined creature like lichen.
This piece engulfs two prior pieces of mine that I’ve been working on for the past few years, “Harbinger” and “Speaker Spit.”

Instrumentation: Amplified vln, vc, piccolo, trumpet, e. gtr, midikeys, b-flat clarinet and live processing

Premiered and Performed by Nadar Ensemble
Mastered by Murat Colak
Mixed by Kelley Sheehan

Creature Like Lichen (2022)for chamber ensemble

Méryll Ampe "W7E" CD
MAR060
Release Date: November 4th, 2022

A multitude of processes, techniques, and forms unfold and unfurl within the work of Méryll Ampe,
an intermedia artist from Paris working through sound, sculpture, and installation using a wide assortment
of materials. What is immediately striking about Ampe’s work is the vibrant, non-linear approach to
electro-acoustic composition.
Here on the debut for Misanthropic Agenda, Ampe liberally reconfigures / deconstructs / genetically mutates
all sources: hydrophone recordings of vibrations through skin, analog synths, tape machinations,
sequencing programmed through algorithmic variability, and plenty of digital processing.
As Ampe describes it, the music on W7E is "a research with an experimental dimension, guided by notions that
systematically translate a form of ambivalence, between inside/outside, micro/macro. These intentions are
vectors of the dynamics, reliefs, depths and rhythm. My training as a visual artist also leads me to go through
mental images (such as a steep landscape, a boiling organism, an organic matter) which will then find a
sound form, states that I would describe as syncope, sound effluvia, abrasive arrhythmias. I look for a form of
plasticity in the sound medium, and that this energy become a living matter."
This multi-dimensional overlay through composition telescopes in and out of the body (not necessarily always
a human body, it should be noted), through a connectivity with technology that can influence psychological states
of being. The work addresses liminality, transitory slippages, and quantum theories of a particle being the two
separate places at the same time. If that can occur at the atomic level, why not through sound?
W7E stands as a dynamic, polydactyl album reflective of the aesthetics (if not concepts) of Keith Fullerton Whitman,
Francisco Meirino, and Bernard Parmegiani.
- Jim Haynes

links:
https://misanthropicagenda.bigcartel.com
https://misanthropicagenda.bandcamp.com
https://meryllampe.com/

Méryll Ampe "Close To"

For solo cello with curved bow. Composed in 2002.
Live performance by Anton Lukoszevieze at the Kintai Festival, Lithuania, on 20 August 2022.

Raimondas Rumsas

Amber Mold, for two performers and electronics, on a text by Montag. 

Input Duo - Alberto Anhaus, Núria Carbó

Text, by Montag (https://linktr.ee/collettivomontag)

Quî
qui sotto negli spazi 
non aria qui sotto
solo pustole d’ossigeno
salgono dalle narici
noi terrore qui
cupo rantolo qui
triplice sibilo

Quî
qui sotto non aria
ma mai soffocanti
noi vagolanti cresciamo
e viscere e vagiti
rombi di spuma
l’informe palude risaliamo

Salgo penzolo gioco
io sono, io godo
morbida liana corda
non altri con me
lontano dal resto
io dondolo molle
e gioco penzolo salgo

Uno due tre
fiori folli
sfuggo salto corro
zanne pistilli
fauci dal basso
vedo sento bave
mi sono addosso
stretti sul collo
io morto

Amber Mold

Drive my car

Holobiont
for ensemble and electronics (stereo version)

Ensemble Collettivo_21
https://www.collettivo21.com/

Lorenzo di Marco – flute
Lorenzo Moretto – saxophone
Alberto Anhaus – percussions
Daniele Nava – piano
Alessandro Mazzacane – cello
Luca Guidarini – electronics


Recorded at Casa della Musica San Michele 
https://www.cdmsanmichele.com/

Holobiont

Modi in Cascada

for A Filetta and Ensemble Resonanz
premiere performance WDR Funkhaus Köln,
21st August, 2022

Modi In Cascada (2021/22)

imma be working on a less messy version when i feel like it featuring @xiaoquanxiaoquanxiaoquan

could be us but i;m emotionally unavailable

Composer, musicologist, sound director www.lucaguidarini.com
Member of Collettivo_21 
https://www.collettivo21.com/

Amber Mold

Luca Guidarini

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