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*****, Concerto n°10 for Brass Band, Percussion & Onde Martenot.
This pièce without title is a true invitation to emotion. Several times I asked myself how could I call a work that tends to speak of emotion, passion and feelings. But for this, my choice was just stopped on the title "*****". Why? Because it is to me quite impossible to name the exact moment when our heart is beating deeply, when we feel an indescribable element who slides under the skin, when a tear escapes quietly from a sight, when our hair stands on all over our body, when our soul takes possession of our flesh. 
Being fascinated by this phenomenon that art causes to humans when it is understood and crossed, the opportunity to work on this mesmerizing creation really pleased me.

Initially, I wrote this piece so instinctivly and probably without worrying about the main problem; The emotion must be induced in the audience, but first among the performers. To transmit a feeling, a mood, the musician must first understand the literature, seize it and give back to the audience in the most accomplished playing. 
The harmonies are nothing. Counterpoint is only mathematical. And orchestration is an artifice. The alchemist then merges these elements to make a Total Art, an Emotion. 
Specifically, after a couple of different versions of this piece and weeks thinking about my goal, this latest version has finally been accepted. There is scarcely no relation between the first test and the final Full Score. 
Questioning the composer was daily and collaboration with the performers was a terrific learning experience.

*****, Concerto n°10 for BB, Percussion & Onde Martenot

Opening piece called "Behind the Curtain" played at Flemish Open 2016 by Brass Band Buizingen with Luc Vertommen.
This story starts behind the curtain when the musicians are getting ready with their stress and apprehension.
As soon as they arrive on stage, they are ready to get their best and give the best performance to the audience.

Behind The Curtain (Ludovic Neurohr) - Brassband Buizingen - VOBK 2016

Cory Band's fantastic performance of Fraternity at the 2017 British Open.

British Open 2017

Fraternity - Cory Band - British Open 2017

Gallery, Howard Snell, Brighouse and Rastrick, Nationals 2017,

Svein Henrik Giske

Goldberg 2012(Svein Henrik Giske)

Rolf Rudin

The God Particle (Rolf Rudin)

Murk It Place (Produced by Ace Ha)

Not having Disquieted for some time, and not being completely on board with the intention of the project after admittedly skimming various pages, I got all enthusiastic when I saw Bernie Krause’s name and realised the sonic lineage of the assembled creators.

I delved into my old “field recordings” folder (okay, me playing with a Tascam) and chose three or five, then cut them up, treated them and reprocessed them (according to whim and instinct) in Audacity using basic effects and plugins.

I still have no idea if this really fits the brief or not but it was fun.


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The Assignment: Celebrate World Listening Day for the whole weekend.

Step 1: This weekend it’s World Listening Day, which occurs every year on July 18, which is the birthday of R. Murray Schafer, the composer and acoustic ecologist. This year, the theme for World Listening Day is “The Collective Field,” as proposed by Katherine Krause.

Step 2: Read about this theme, “The Collective Field,” at:

https://worldlisteningday.org/ 

Step 3: Make a piece of music for World Listening Day, inspired by the theme, or just in the spirit of the occasion.


More on this 446th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Disquiet Junto Project 0446: WWWLDD — The Assignment: Celebrate World Listening Day for the whole weekend — at:

https://disquiet.com/0446/ 

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

I’m just going to wait out here [disquiet0446]

Capturing the essence of the golden age of TV theme tunes - that sweet spot in time when the musicians of the 70s composed such things almost as if they had stopped listening to music in 1959.

Theme From Voltaire

AMAZING GRACE
        -By John Newton
         C                          F
1.	Amazing grace! how 
                   C
sweet the sound,
           Am         D                   G
  That saved a wretch; like me!
  C                                F
I once was lost, but now am 
C                   Am             F      G  C
found, Was blind, but now I see.
                C
2. ’Twas grace that taught my 
F              C                Am           D
heart to fear,  And grace my fears
     G                    C
 relieved;  How precious did that 
F          C           Am             F
grace appear  The hour I first 
G  C
believed!

C                          C7
Through many dangers
F                C
Toils and snares
  Am       D         G
I have already come
       C
'Tis grace hath brought
      F                C
me safe thus far
         Am           F       G    C
And grace will lead me home
         C                               C7
4.	When we’ve been there ten 
F                C                     Am        D
thousand years, Bright shining as 
        G      C                       
the sun,  We’ve no less days to 
F                  C
sing God’s praise 
          Am            F     G  C
Than when we first begun.

(Praise God and His Son for their unimaginable gift of living with them forever, by believing in God and CEO Jesus through repentance--being truly sorry for your sins!)

Behind The Curtain (Ludovic Neurohr) - Brassband Buizingen - VOBK 2016

Ludovic Neurohr, Composer

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