A sad guitar instrumental with a touch of the blues in a cinematic texture. It's strong and powerful with an edgy, emotional draw.

Eternal Midnight

སྒྲ་ཨང་། KADZPS2070334
སྤྱིའི་ཨང་། ༤༦༢
འཁྲིད་མཁན། དགེ་བཤེས་ཟླ་བ་ཚེ་རིང་། 
ཁྲིད་གཞུང་གི་མཚན་ཆ་ཚང་། མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་རྒྱན་འགྲེལ་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་ཡུམ་དོན་གསལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །
ཁྲིད་མཚམས། བསམ་གཟུགས། 
མཛད་པ་པོ། པཎ་ཆེན་བསོད་ནམས་གྲགས་པ། ༼༡༤༧༨ - ༡༥༥༤༽ དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་བཅོ་ལྔ་པ་དང་། བསོད་གྲགས་ཡིག་ཆ་མཛད་པ་པོ་ཡིན། 
སྒྲིག་དུས། ༢༠༡༨ ལོའི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ།

Penchen Samzuk Chidon

པཎ་ཆེན་བསམ་གཟུགས་སྤྱི་དོན། ༼༠༥༽

Contact With The Third Rail

discomedusæ -  for Totem (radiation control multi-loudspeaker device), ensemble (11 instruments) and loudspeakers.
Stereo mix down.

Conductor: Rut Schereiner
Sound engineer: Jean-Marc Lyzwa

Recorded at CNSMDP, 13.3.2020.

discomedusæ (excerpt)

18/12/2019, Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall (Japan)
Flute : Jun-ichiro Taku
Clarinet : Hideo Kikuchi
Violoncello : Kei Yamazawa
Conductor : Seitaro Ishikawa

Cut here (2019) for flute, clarinet and violoncello

It might be helpful to give a short introduction: I go by either https://soundcloud.com/christian-s-smith, or in this case ‘himsantichrist' for my DJ & mixing title. It’s a long story and a bit of an inside joke, but basically it’s just an anagram of my name. My main career path is as a percussionist specialising in new experimental composed and improvised music. I also teach music, and I freelance as a landscaper with the time I have left in my week. However, since I was a teenager I’ve been making mixtapes for myself and friends, and as I got older that turned into playing house parties, and in recent years I’ve gotten pretty seriously into club culture and DJ-ing, which brings me here. Thanks to Matthijs Mantel for inviting me to head this exciting project, and to the festival which I’ve been lucky to have a relationship with, either as a performer or as an attendee, since I moved to The Hague in 2016.

The concept: using the extensive physical and digital archives housing recordings made at the festival since its start in 1945, I have produced a series of mixtapes covering the 74 years that the Gaudeamus Muziekweek has occurred. This is the first of several that will celebrate the 75th birthday of a festival that has curated a broad spectrum of the post-war contemporary classical and experimental music.

I went for more of a ‘collage’ style mixing method though there aren’t more than 3-4 tracks at a given time. Single pieces do come to the foreground, or sound alone, but to me as a listener, mixing one track to the next is not very
interesting. I found through the process that pieces that might have completely different aesthetics or vibes, when played together became something new and weird. Also, this mixtape is chronologically arranged according to the year of the Festival, meaning if a piece is written in 2012, but played in the 2015 edition, then it goes between 2014 and 2016, highlighting its context in the history of the Gaudeamus Muziekweeks. You can see exactly when a piece and composer are brought into the mix by following along with my annotated comments.   

My work as a dj is intuitive, I listen and find connections or juxtapositions where I can. I arrange everything in Ableton (this is not a live mix), so I had the opportunity to compose out my weaker decisions, and bring out the stronger ones.  A big big thank you to the wonderful humans that wrote and performed this music, without which this wouldn't be possible. There are some beautiful moments and collisions here, happy listening!

2013
https://soundcloud.com/morgan-krauss - We only Speak of Other Things 00:00 
Martijn Padding - Hop  2:10 & 4:08 
https://soundcloud.com/julianna-barwick - 7 improvisaties  2:55 & 8:14
https://soundcloud.com/esaias - Order Part 1  5:57
https://soundcloud.com/jiyounkang - Machi Nory  10:57

2014 
https://soundcloud.com/bart-de-vrees - Like Boxtrapped Monkeys in a Warehouse 16:22
https://soundcloud.com/jessie-downs - Noticing and Truth Telling 18:59
https://soundcloud.com/emilykoh- Petrichor 21:12
https://soundcloud.com/trevorgrahl - …From Curious Lands and Places 23:06

2015 
https://soundcloud.com/jasontbuchanan - Walkside, Lost 25:39

2016 
https://soundcloud.com/gabrieldharmoo - Avec et sans feinte 27:20 & 30:25
https://soundcloud.com/anthony-vine - Between Blue 30:25
https://soundcloud.com/james-ocallaghan - Indices or: Kosuth Variations 31:53

2017 
Maya Verlaak - Song and Dance  39:11
https://soundcloud.com/genevievemurphy - Squeeze Machine  49:39
https://soundcloud.com/ivan-vukosavljevi- The Atlas Slave  53:14

2018
https://soundcloud.com/lawrencedunn - Disappointment rondeau 53:36
https://soundcloud.com/lise-morrison - Cleared Air and Delicate Dust 57:06
https://soundcloud.com/wkuoex - The Hand Holds No Weapon 61:16

2019
https://soundcloud.com/kelley-sheehan-929055575 - Eyes On 64:10 
https://soundcloud.com/remysiu - New Notations for Multi-Players 67:22

Mixing The Archive - 75 Years of Gaudeamus #1 2013-2019 [himsantichrist worst timeline mix]

Зона [Acousmatic]

‘Strange planet music begins’ when a civilian passenger starship makes an emergency landing on an unexplored planet and the crew and passengers emerge to take a look around…

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [Missing in Caption] (The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions), at:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Image associated with this project is by Rune Vallesether, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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Strange Planet music begins (disquiet0469)

-_[[La Gran Sangre]]-_-

[[ -_- Si Tu No Estas ]]-_-[[  CusCo ]]-..[[ La Gran Sangre ]]_[[ 2o21]]_T3_Lo-_-DeDiCo_LoKit4_

WAKE UP

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More on this 479th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Truck Radio Rain (The Assignment: Locate three sound sources and make something with them) — at:

https://disquiet.com/0479/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

More Songs About Windshield Wipers (disquiet0479)

Masahiro Aogaki (b.1991) is a Japanese composer currently based in Paris. In his recent compositional process, Aogaki has demonstrated a keen interest in redefining the identities and the integrities of instruments, voices, and texts, while also recontextualizing existing musical languages. Inspired by the poetry of Romanian surrealist Ghérasim Luca, he particularly explores the phenomenon of "stuttering" that characterizes Luca's works, influencing his musical compositions.
 
In 2017, he obtained his Master’s degree in Composition from Tokyo University of the Arts under Ichiro Nodaira, and later graduated with highest honors unanimously from the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) in 2022, where he worked with Stefano Gervasoni. In 2022-23, Aogaki participated in the IRCAM Cursus led by Pierre Jodlowski and Simone Conforti. His first portrait concert took place in Paris in July 2023, and his piece Dé-monologue –Cinq poèmes de Ghérasim Luca was nominated for Le Tremplin Musical of the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco in the same year. Since 2023, he has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris' 17th arrondissement, collaborating with Ensemble Court-circuit.
 
His works have been performed by various ensembles such as Orchestre de Picardie, Orchestre de Caen, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Court-circuit, Ensemble Reconsil, and collettivo_21, among others. Aogaki has participated in numerous masterclasses and received guidance from composers and ensembles including Tristan Murail, Allain Gaussin, Philippe Manoury, Thierry De Mey, Jean-Luc Hervé, Marco Momi, Jaime Reis, Sivan Eldar, Joji Yuasa, Misato Mochizuki, and Diotima Quartet.
 
Some of his works are published by BabelScores.

Cut here (2019) for flute, clarinet and violoncello

Masahiro Aogaki

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