En la más ardua oscuridad (In the Most Arduous Obscurity) for bass clarinet, cello and piano (2009)

The title suggests a space from which -due to a lack of light- there is no point of reference or safe pathway to move about. More importantly, the title suggests a state of mind; an inner space in which someone suddenly realizes that has lost perspective on those things that were familiar. 
Paradoxically, I chose, as the first musical material of the work, one that suggests brightness, light. The rest was dark, at the beginning of the compositional process. I moved around with that material in hand similar to the way we walk with a candle in an unknown place at the center of the night. That light was useful to find some objects and situations of interest. The light came back several times until I finally felt more comfortable walking in the dark.
The only familiar thing is the unfamiliar; the only known place is the unknown.
MT

Binaural recording - listen with headphones!
Part of the work-in-progress H.E.A.D.

Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, recorded in spring 2021 at various creeks in Lower Austria and processed with MaxMSP:

1) Krumpenwasser ("Gießgang") inside the Stockerauer Au
2) an artificial creek ("Fischwanderhilfe") at the Danube power plant Greifenstein
3) the river Schwechat which flows through Helenental close to the monastery of Heiligenkreuz
4) the Mauerbach near the Carthusian monastery of the same name

H.E.A.D.

B.A.C.H.

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B.A.C.H. (Beloved Aquatic Counterpoint Hearing) - BINAURAL

Michael Rectenwald's, What Is The Great Reset, a series in five-parts, is discussed, as well as books by World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman, Klaus Schwab, including "The Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "Covid-19: The Great Reset"; technological changes that will bring about the Great Reset; a grand centralization scheme; a two-tiered system of production; a new normal; neofeudalism; reduced income and carbon use; austerity; transformation of the monetary system via centralized digital currency; 5G-enabled smart city surveillance; social credit scoring system via vaccine passports; political imprisonment; fusion of transhumanist technology with biology – genomics, nanotechnology and robotics; predictive algorithms; climate change and covid crisis pretexts for enacting the Great Reset; military transformation as the mind itself becomes a battlescape; transformation of governance by state/corporate convergence; new ESG stock market index, the Environmental, Social and Governance Index, a scoring system driving investments to approved corporate players; abridgement of individual rights across the board including ownership and the free enterprise system itself; wokeness ideology, the reset of the mass mind, recasts rights as privileges; wrong-think at universities; oligarchic control by a shadowy group.

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Guns and Butter 434

Corporate Socialism:  The Great Reset - Dr. Michael Rectenwald, #434

Leo Genovese - Piano
Demian Cabaud - Bass
Jeff Williams - Drums
Nadia Larcher - Voice

Artist Title: Leo Genovese
Album Title:  Ritual
Label: 577 Records
File Under: Contemporary Jazz / Modern Jazz / Avantgarde 
Release Date:  3/4/2022
Cat#: 5905
Format: CD/DL
Barcode: 755491220771
CD-577R-5905

ABOUT THE ALBUM
For multi-instrumentalist Leo Genovese, all of life represents a ceremony. In this project, he poses a particular assembly of rituals to honor that celebratory feeling: offerings, dances, chants and acts, inspired by cultures and tribes from around the world. Leo Genovese is joined by his longtime collaborator Demian Cabaud (Bass) and legendary drummer Jeff Williams, to form a trio—and on four tracks, by Catamarca's singer Nadia Larcher. Larcher’s voice is particularly affecting, soaring over the rhythmic beats and experimental jazz from the trio, to build rich, layered sounds. Ritual presents an album of celebration, convening in a post-pandemic world to again play music together. This marks Leo Genovese’s second album on 577 Records following Ritmos De Agua (2021). It will be available digitally and as a CD on March 4, 2022.

Recorded July 29, 2019 by Nuno Couto at Studio Cara OJM, Porto, Portugal
Mixed and mastered by Jeremy Loucas, Sear Sound, New York City

Photography by Reuben Radding
Graphic design by Colo Sastre

All music written by Leo Genovese

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based in Brooklyn, New York 
operating since 2001

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Ritual

Leo Genovese: 'De Tanto Llorar' from album Ritual (577 Records)

En la más ardua oscuridad (2009) for bass clarinet, cello and piano
Premiered in Berlin, April 2009.

En la más ardua oscuridad

"Capriccio"

(Eva García Fernández -2020-)

para violín

Violín: David Núñez

Estreno concierto - Urondo contemporáneo IV - Centro Cultural Paco Urondo (Agosto 2022)

Esta micropieza fue compuesta especialmente para David Núñez y forma parte de un conjunto de más de cincuenta micropiezas que el violinista ha encargado a diversos compositores y compositoras, logrando una especie de foto sonora de la época.

Capriccio

Capriccio - para violín (2020)

Bach - Cello Suite n°1 in G major - Gigue

Ain’t no telling (Mississippi John Hurt)

Tupelo –John Lee Hooker

A small fragment of a rehearsal of Kampela's Motets during ou residency at Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

Arthur Kampela - Motets (fragment of rehearsal)by Oh Mensch

Poema sobre a sobrevivência do morto como algo que se deteriora enquanto coisa concreta; que de certa maneira, 'sobrevive' ainda entre nós, pessoas da rotina, e da hora; o Morto obedece à secreta ordem das coisas putrefeitas. E seu trabalho é o lento trabalho da dissolução, da erosão, e mesmo de adubo, que afeta a realidade e por ela é afetado. Escutem. Foi uma maneira que encontrei de prolongar e ainda tornar pertinaz a ausência de meu amado irmão Salo nesta Realidade que atravessamos - e nos trespassa.

Sobre - Vivente (ao meu irmãozinho Salo)

Fuyante (1996)
For Percussion Quartet and Electroacoustic Tape.
Timeworks Quartet.
Live recording.

Fuyante (1996)

New York-based Argentinean composer Marcelo Toledo has developed though the years a personal music style particularly oriented toward the exploration of instrumental timbre, an aspect of his work that has become a characteristic facet of his compositions. In his work he has eliminated the traditional importance given to pitch in order to focus on a new aural matter. This is the product of a research created through his essential engagement to explore -with his personal techniques- the instruments of the orchestra. Toledo’s music evolves almost biologically in an intricate sound texture made out of complex fluid sounds.

En la más ardua oscuridad

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