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Frozen in Time is the closing song from the album Iron Council by Null-O Band & Jeff Vicario, to be released in 2024

The crisis is over
The new one soon begins
Impulse, now reflection
We treasure our gravest sins

The Iron Council
Alert, sublime
Constant reminder
Frozen in time

Prime for emergency
Impending disaster
Like a rats in a maze
We run faster and faster

The Iron Council
Alert, sublime
Ready for battle
Frozen in time
Constant reminder
So many out there
Have nothing left to lose
But their chains

music: Jeff Vicario
Lyrics: null-o & Jeff Vicario

Null-O Band & Jeff Vicario - Frozen In Time

Commissioned by the U.S. Navy Band for Jonathan Yanik

Completed Oct. 17, 2023
Premiered at the International Saxophone Symposium on January 12, 2024 at George Mason University

As a child, I used to obsessively rewatch my favorite movies. Seeing the same sequences over and over, I would begin to notice little mistakes across cuts - misplaced items, inexplicable outfit changes, loose strands of hair - and I started to wonder how actors managed to keep their characters consistent if they could barely maintain their physical appearances. I soon realized that many actors, quite simply, did not. 

Continuity Errors, true to its name, celebrates the unexpected surrealism of inconsistency. The piece is filled with sudden, frenetic shifts in tone, register, and key, with these drop-of-a-dime changes kicked off by the clapboard-like ‘crack!’ of a whip. The solo saxophone is the star of the show, eager to shine but occasionally out of step with the whip’s cues. The music frequently invokes the stylings of grand, cinematic soundscapes, even as the soloist obsessively brings the music back toward a more mischievous, off-kilter dance. As the piece builds towards its relentless climax, it cycles again and again through the soloist’s dance, as though trying to rehearse it again and again. The piece ends explosively with a series of wild jump cuts, culminating in a final exhausted smack of the whip. 

Many thanks to Jonathan Yanik and the amazing musicians of the U.S. Navy Band for realizing this piece.

Large Ensemble

Continuity Errors, for alto saxophone and wind ensemble

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Acousmatic, stereo version

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for small ensemble and computer tape/sounds.

line/segments

20240104

Today's track is doing double duty as it was created for the 2 Hour Album Challenge (2hac) in addition to Jamuary. The idea of that challenge is to create a complete track, start to finish in just two hours. There's also a theme which this time around was 'Life'. 

I decided to create my track in a musique concrète style by using only recordings of animal noises which I found on freesound.org. This was hard as I was having to do sound design on the fly (e.g. creating a kick out of a pigeon call and a clap out of a dog bark) while also composing. 

I actually only spent one hour on this as we're going out to dinner in a minute so I might allow myself another hour tweaking it tomorrow for 2hac.

Jamuary 2024

Menagerie Part 2 (Jamuary Day 13)

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

Apprendere dal fango

Luca Guidarini

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