Meant For This

Chris Gross, cello
Recorded live on April 20th 2019 at DiMenna Center, NYC

Cantus is inspired by the metrically free style of plainchant, in particular the music of Hildegard of Bingen. The score is proportionally notated, and gives no indications regarding rhythm or tempo. Instead, the player is invited to devise their own phrasings, timing, and articulations. In the beginning of the work, short melodic motives alternate with tremolos and long sustained tones, which eventually give way to florid melismatic passages. When played with reverberation, ecstatic melodies create harmonic resonances, while expansive sustained tones serve as refrains, recalling the reciting tones heard in sacred vocal chant. The work climaxes with a paraphrase of Hildegard’s Nunc Aperuit Nobis Clausa Porta (Today A Closed Portal Opened For Us), an antiphon to the Virgin Mary. This gives way to a primordial evocation, resounding in the form of a low open G.

Cantus for solo cello

BANG LE' DEX GUEST SET
ERIC UMBLE for WHPK RADIO CHICAGO 88.5 FM
Premiered over FM radio in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 2023

Made possible by Taigo Onez and the Ninth House Agency

ERIC UMBLE for WHPK CHICAGO RADIO 88.5 FM; BANG LE' DEX GUEST SET

Tracklist + Q&A: https://bit.ly/3CsSPcu

@kyruhx is healing trauma through techno

KYRUH says:
"I wrote a poem to describe this mix. It’s all about the kick, the drive:

We are drum people

So when you see me

Roused and moved on the dancefloor

Spine bent and snapped

Discarding woes

Do not interrupt or imprint

Because I came for the kick"

Tracklist & Q+A

Impact: KYRUH

Mario Diaz de Leon (Luminous Vault, Bloodmist) announces Spark and Earth, due out October 6th via Denovali Records. This is the second electronic release under the producer and composer's own name, following last year's Heart Thread, a gorgeous, diaphanous documentation of two extended electronic live performances. Spark and Earth remains equally immersive, yet unfolds in ecstatic bursts over nine songs, melding together the contrasting elements of Diaz de Leon's various musical projects in metal, modern classical, and electronic music.

 Along with the announcement, the composer, guitarist, and synthesist releases a single "Cruces." The song is an ecstatic introduction to the album, balancing stark musical contrasts between an ethereal opening and closing, the ritualistic rhythms of the verse, and the propulsive sections of the chorus. The single’s climax highlights the dualistic elements of Diaz de Leon's sound, featuring distorted metal guitars alongside shimmering percussive synths.

On September 8th, Mario Diaz de Leon will perform a solo electronic set at the upcoming 20 Years of Shinkoyo concert series, held at Brooklyn venue Roulette.

Cruces

Equanimity

Noise Radio
2008
MV Carbon and Tony Conrad.
from The Orange Tapes
recorded at West Nile, Brooklyn, NY

noiseradio -MV Carbon and Tony Conrad

Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist currently based between San Diego and New York City. Her creative practice encompasses contemporary & experimental music, improvisation, noise & acoustic feedback, and band-like collaborations with other creative performers. She has performed as a featured artist of the Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Notable performances have been as a soloist presented by ISSUE Project Room, as part of the Merce Cunningham Centennial in Los Angeles, and in recital at the Vigeland Mausoleum (Oslo). Madison is the clarinetist of TAK Ensemble, a founding member of the [Switch~ Ensemble], and can be heard on Wandelweiser Editions and Another Timbre. 

Madison is a doctoral candidate at UC San Diego and received her Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music.

In this episode, TAK flutist and Executive Director Laura Cocks and Technical Director Taylor Brook interview Madison, who is the newest member of TAK ensemble.

This episode was edited by Marina Kifferstein with help from Alex Van Gils.

009. Madison Greenstone

Our counterculture is deeply rooted in the status quo it proclaims to oppose. Concerns around inclusion, economics and “cancel culture” occupy our attention and fuel the compromises we make. Meanwhile, institutions co-opt once progressive concepts and our scenes may be dominated by brands, opaque funding models and celebrity culture. Through being open about the systems we are complicit in, this discussion explores what our communities stand to lose and how much more we have to gain. Moderated by Tayyab Amin, with Frankie Hutchinson of Discwoman, Mat Dryhurst, Teto Preto's Laura Diaz and DeForrest Brown Jr.

A transcript is available at @truants:
https://truantsblog.com/2020/unsound-2019-complicity-accountability-agency-counterculture/

Unsound Talk 06: Complicity and Accountability: Our Agency in Counterculture

This is a friendly lil teaser for some upcoming episodes of the TAK Editions Podcast! Every Tuesday for the next five weeks will feature conversations between a recent TAK collaborator and a guest of their choosing. 

We are so grateful to all of our guests for contributing their time and thoughts to the podcast, and super excited to share their brilliant convos with you. 

The music at the beginning and ending of this episode are from Sanctuary by Mario Diaz de Leon, recorded by TAK in 2017. Get the recording here:
https://mariodiazdeleon.bandcamp.com/album/sanctuary

Heads Up! TAK Editions Podcast is Back!

the Sea They Think They Hear
for soprano, flute, harp, piano, violin, viola and violoncello | 2021

Written for and performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble and Gelsey Bell
Recorded at Scholes Street Studio
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak

Text

The ocean, deep blue-green.
What we learn in the middle of the night is that the world makes us flinch. (Michel Serres, The Five Senses: Philosophy of Mingled Bodies)
Sounds an ocean, drinks it in.

Then everything became worse for the wear, damaged, used and used-up and ultimately destroyed.
More and more I made up for what was lost, I slowly improved myself, and I considered myself healed. (Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina)

I found myself trapped in a nightmare, standing alone at the sea. Everyday becoming more and more.
White and yellow and gray and horizonless. (Tove Jansson, The Summer Book)

Cruces

mariodiazdeleon

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