Name: 03 Whole Beauty Now Lies in Memory by Luke Nickel
Duration: 14 min 7 s
Description: McGill Wind Symphony featuring soprano soloist Sarah Albu play my thesis work "Whole Beauty Now Lies in Memory".

performed by Maciej Skrzeczkowski on 21.06.22, Royal Conservatory of the Hague (NL)
mixed & mastered by Lilita Dunska

for blandine & maciej

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Say my name Boy - Milkdonna edit

OCCAM VIII is a solo for contrabass recorder by Eliane Radigue, performed by Pia Palme. This is a small part of the live recording of the premiere at Huddersfield 2014. The complete piece is up to 18 minutes long.

OCCAM XVIII (Eliane Radigue 2014) - cut

For computer controlled piano, tape, and jumping person. Performed by RHEA, computer controlled piano built by Winfried Ritsch. https://algo.mur.at/projects/autoklavierspieler Recorded by David Pocknee in Huddersfield, October.

Jumping song

I'm new lol - original composition synth & voice

Twix Crunchy Snickers Mars

Opening section of I Did and I Didn't to be performed at Bastard Assignments: Fresh & Clean 2 at Asylum http://freshclean2bastard.bpt.me

In a slow wave gradually start singing, sing a different note to your neighbour. 

Performed by the City Lit Community Choir. 

I Did And I Didn't (opening)

I developed Who's Exploiting Who collaboratively with the Thin Edge New Music Collective in January and February 2016. There is no written score for the piece, and as a result it relies entirely on the ensemble's collective memory to be realized.

Before each TENMC rehearsal, I corresponded individually with every member of the ensemble via a temporary audio file that I posted privately on soundcloud. These correspondences contained recordings of my voice describing musical parameters, metaphorical text and logistical instructions. During rehearsals, the ensemble patched together a collective understanding of the piece based on their individual memories of the original correspondences. I was not present for rehearsals, thus allowing the resulting constellations of their new insights to supersede my original artistic impulses. 

Who's Exploiting Who is based on one of my favourite songs released in 2015. I fed various musical fragments of the original song through my somewhat scattered memory as well as the (less scattered) memory of the TENMC. The result is (hopefully!) a kaleidoscopic and hallucinogenic exploration of complete musical obsession.

Who's Exploiting Who

McGill Wind Symphony featuring soprano soloist Sarah Albu play my thesis work "Whole Beauty Now Lies in Memory". 

03 Whole Beauty Now Lies in Memory

Luke Nickel

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