Black Encyclopedia of the Air

Temporal Control Of Light Echoes

commissioned & premiered by Loadbang

Trumpet: Andy Kozar
Trombone: William Lang
Bass Clarinet: Adrián Sandí 
Baritone Voice: Jeffrey  Gavett 
Date: October 1, 2021
Venue: Opera America (NYC)
Event: loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 17
Audio and Video by Stuart Breczinski

video: https://youtu.be/cfU1rI2Ge9w

ghosts & monsters (2021) | loadbang ensemble

The Daemon Songbook of the Religious Faith of Fish Story Gallery

Fourteen songs by La Chiva & Matthew Lee Knowles [2021-2022]


ALBUM ART
Cover art design by Maanskyn; Tattoo design and execution by ErikMarcelChuckMisterBubblesTime; from an original drawing by La Chiva
credits

Lyrics/performer: La Chiva
Music/pianist: Matthew Lee Knowles
Sound engineer/post production: John-Henry Baker

AMBI-VALENT

Ms.Windy

art work: David Mark via Pixabay

風が泣いている
電線が唸る
雲の刃が光る
声を聞き分けようとする

The wind is crying.
The telegraph wires are humming in the wind.
Clouds in the sky are glittering like knives.
I tried to catch the words of dead.

Ms.Windy

Recovery Swap (2021)
(Tape track only)
Part of a collaborative project with composer Benjamin Shirley
https://benshirleymusic.com/

Program note:

Recovery Swap was written through a collaborative project with fellow artist Benjamin Shirley. Over the course of the project, we both interviewed each other about our different life experiences, evolving identities, and values. As our conversations progressed, we discovered many unexpected bridges between the unique personal challenges that we each have faced and how they have shaped us as human beings. We both constructed our own works by microsampling the other person’s previous music. Through this process, we got to know each other’s art very closely and how our experiences inform the work we make.

The result of this project was one of the most organic collaborative experiences I have ever had, and the works we both made were extremely vulnerable and honest. Together we discovered a lot about each other and ourselves, and we realized how our separate identities can nevertheless be intertwined. Recovery Swap is my contribution for this project. This piece explores different definitions of recovery, based on our individual experiences with addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how our paths of recovery intersect.

Many thanks to Ben Shirley for embarking on this collaboration with me.

Recovery Swap (track)

Latin Groove Nicolas Kingman

Danger Club (Original Theme Music) Nicolas Kingman

Escapement, by Garrett Schumann.  
Performed by Jeannette Fang
Escapement was commissioned and premiered by Jeannette Fang in May, 2014
Recording Engineer - Rishi Daftour

Escapement

2. Rien Ne M'effraye Plus

Performed January 27, 2018 in a cafe in Fukushima, Japan by Miyama McQueen-Tokita.

shiroi natsu (2017) - for bass koto

Recorded live at Besbrodes Piano showroom, Leeds, performed by Jakob Fichert, for whom the piece was written.

AMBI-VALENT

Matthew Lee Knowles

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