my listenings during this month

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in copertina Harold Budd

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2021)

For Alan Turing [2011]

Piano Works

Instrumental Compositions

A selection of works

Rice Business Wisdom Private

Solo For Alto Saxophone 
Matthew Lee Knowles [2004]
performed by Faye-Louise Aldrich


VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYkbTi-VFy8
SCORE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16917308/Solo-for-Alto-Saxophone

Solo For Alto Saxophone [2004]

The real title of the piece is the image you see in the thumbnail, but for reference, I affectionately verbalise it as 'squiggle'

Matthew Lee Knowles [2006]

GSMD orchestra, led by conductor Sîan Edwards.

'squiggle' [2006]

Piano improvisation 
Matthew Lee Knowles [2006]
Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Piano Improvisation II [2006]

A Treat For Five Persons Who Can Play The Piano 
Matthew Lee Knowles [2007?]

For five persons around one piano

A Treat For Five Persons Who Can Play The Piano [2007?]

Instances 
Three celli, flute + harpsichord

Matthew Lee Knowles [2006]

Written for and performed by Hull Sinfonia

Instances [2006]

54 Variations on the theme from Cannibal Holocaust by Riz Ortolani [2012]

This performance of variations 53 and 54 by Matthew Lee Knowles

SCORE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/89709074/Fifty-four-Variations-on-a-Theme-from-the-film-Cannibal-Holocaust-by-Riz-Ortolani-solo-piano

54 Variations on the theme from Cannibal Holocaust by Riz Ortolani [#53+54, 2012]

After one hundred and fifty notes by Alkan 
Matthew Lee Knowles [2013]

For string quartet

Premiered by the Rumore Quartet at the 2nd Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival, November 2013.

SCORE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/194361921/After-one-hundred-and-fifty-notes-by-Alkan-string-quartet

After one hundred and fifty notes by Alkan [2013]

For any number of piccolos
[in this recording, eight]

Instrumentalists of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

SCORE
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16879879/Leave-Things-Alive-and-Mysterious


PERFORMANCE INSTRUCTIONS

There is one universal score and there needs to be at least three copies for each performer, positioned on the floor, on chairs, music stands etc, in the performance space. 

Performers choose three positions in the space. This choosing is the beginning of the piece, should not be predetermined and will take about thirty seconds. Performers will be standing still whilst they are doing this and it should be made almost comically obvious what is happening, by exaggerated movements of the head, neck and eyes. 

N.B. you need not choose positions near the score - these pages/music stands/chairs can always be moved by you, to suit you.

One of the performers will have a whistle/triangle/box of party poppers (anything that can be used to signal change) and after it is clear that everyone has chosen where they will move to this person will create a signal which will be your authorization to move to your first position. It is up to the signal-person how long each section lasts and they will play the game just like everyone else. 

This structure continues, with each signal instructing performers to move to the next position: 

In each position you will be near a score, each score is identical and has five lines.  You should choose one line in each position and you are free to repeat, elongate, fragment, improvise, mime, respond or be completely silent - until you hear the next signal to move. 

* On hearing the final signal you immediately enter the spoken coda, which requires each performer to speak quickly, without expression the following details:

#NAME  #ADDRESS  #AGE  #PLACE OF BIRTH  #FAVOURITE FILM

When the last person has spoken the last detail, the piece is finished

Leave Things Alive And Mysterious [2009]

The Earth is Suffocating

Matthew Lee Knowles
[2014]

VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWM7P5AonCs


The Earth Is Suffocating [2014]

Sinusoidal Triangulation 
Twenty-one concentrations for solo piano
Dedicated to and premiered by Jonathan Powell

Matthew Lee Knowles
[2012-13]

Premiered at St. Anne's College, Oxford, 17/01/14

Sinusoidal Triangulation [2013/14]

Morton Feldman

Intermission 6 [1953]
intermission 5 [1952]

Performed by Matthew Lee Knowles
At the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival, November 2013

Morton Feldman - Intermissions [6+5]

Aqua/Turn Back Time [MLK/REMIX:1997/2015]

Aqua/Turn Back Time

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
The Carpenters

[MLK/REMIX:1977/2015]

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft [1977] originally written by Klaatu and covered by The Carpenters in the same year.  I have used an extract from the covered version.

The Carpenters/Calling Occupants

A conversation with Dean Peter Rodriguez on his research into what live performance reveals about our economic future.

Episode 1: The Strangely Immovable Economics Of Live Performance

Trailer 2

Piece for solo piano, composed + played by Matthew Lee Knowles

SCORE
https://www.scribd.com/document/480495129/For-Frey-solo-piano

For Frey

Henrik delivers his follow-up album on Ambientologist, Kval, strengthening his crossing of medieval evocation and meditative ambient cello.

A story of choices, necessary suffering, and being human.

CDs and download available here: https://bit.ly/3n8EFnx

Kval

Henrik Meierkord - Suddig

Music For Quiet Moments 36 - Drifting Firmly

Music For Quiet Moments 36 - Drifting Firmly (Chattanooga 27 Feb 2006)

For AE On Their 30th Birthday

Good Morning 2021

A Happy New Year

Written for one of my piano students in December 2020
Composed + played by Matthew Lee Knowles

SCORE
https://www.scribd.com/document/489865788/For-Martha-piano

VIDEO
https://youtu.be/oT6oWKZplFQ

For Martha

Marco Lucchi : toy harp, piano and analog synthesizer

6 gennaio 2021

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Will there really be a "morning"?
Is there such a thing as "Day"?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they?

Has it feet like Water lilies?
Has it feathers like a Bird?
Is it brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard?

Oh some Scholar! Oh some Sailor!
Oh some Wise Man from the skies!
Please to tell a little Pilgrim
Where the place called "morning" lies!

Emily Dickinson

toy harp n°21 (+ piano + analog synth)

For Alan Turing [2011]

Played by the composer

For Alan Turing [part one]

For Alan Turing [part two]

For Alan Turing [part three]

For Alan Turing [part four]

For Alan Turing [part five]

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Loving listening to everyone's music on here :-))))))))))