Nice music to wonderful texts (The torturing, deathless riddle [of life]). Thanks for sharing!

For large versatile ensemble (20 players).
Commissioned by Acht Brücken - Musik in Köln and Deutscher Musikrat.

–– RETRACTED VERSION OF THE WORLD PREMIERE ––

Performed by the European Workshop for Contemporary Music, conducted by Rüdiger Bohn.

Live-recording of the world premiere at Warsaw Autumn Festival 2021 on Sept 24th 2021, at Frederic Chopin University of Music. Sound engineers: Jacek Guzowski & Krzysztof Kuraszkiewicz, MUSICON

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By the sea, by the dreary, night-colored sea,
A young man stands;
His heart full of anguish, his head full of doubts,
And with pale lips he questions the billows:
(H. Heine, Questions, from: Book of Songs, 1826)

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper "I love you"
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Dream a little dream of me
(Gus Kahn, Dream a little dream of me)

… now it has happened. Nothing more. Just this, and in this way—now it has happened. If I should try to explain it, it means that that happening which gave rise to my cry has only now, with the rejoinder, really and undoubtedly happened.
(Original Remembrance, from: Dialogue, 1929, Martin Buber)

The two Voyager spacecraft are bound for the stars. Affixed to each is a gold-plated copper phonograph record with a cartridge and stylus and, on the aluminum record jacket, instructions for use. We sent something about our genes, something about our brains, and something about our libraries to other beings who might sail the sea of interstellar space. But we didn’t want to send primarily scientific information. […] Instead we wanted to tell those other beings something about what seems unique about ourselves.
(Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980) 

“Oh solve me the riddle of Life,
The torturing, deathless riddle
Which has cracked so many heads, […]
Poor, perspiring heads of people—
Tell me, what is Man? And what's his meaning?
Where does he come from? Where is he going?
Who dwells up there among the golden stars?”

Say "Night-ie night" and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
While I'm alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me

But now something happened with me. As though I had till now had no other access from the world to sensation save that of the ear and now discovered myself as a being simply equipped with senses, both those clothed in the bodily organs and the naked senses, so I exposed myself to the distance, open to all sensation and perception. 

Although the recipients may not know any languages of the Earth, we included greetings in sixty human tongues, as well as the helos of the humpback whales. We sent photographs of humans from all over the world caring for one another, learning, fabricating tools and art and responding to challenges. There is an hour and a half of exquisite music from many cultures, some of it expressing our sense of cosmic loneliness, our wish to end our isolation, our longing to make contact with other beings in the Cosmos.

Stars fading, but I linger on, dear
Still craving your kiss
I'm longing to linger till dawn, dear
Just saying this

The billows are whispering their eternal whispers.
The wind blows on, the clouds go sailing;
The stars keep twinkling, indifferent and cold.
And a fool waits for his answer.

[…] But the Voyager record is on its way out of the solar system. The erosion in interstellar space – chiefly cosmic rays and impacting dust grains—is so slow that the information on the record will last a billion years. Genes and brains and books encode information differently and persist thorugh time at different rates. But the persistence of the memory of the human species will be far longer in the impressed metal grooves on the Voyager interstellar record.

And then, not from a distance but from the air round about me, noiselessly, came the answer. Really it did not come; it was there. 
It had been there—so I may explain it—even before my cry: there it was, and now, when I laid myself open to it, 
it let itself be received by me.

craving your kiss (2020) // European Workshop for Contemporary Music [RETRACTED]

Marco Lucchi : piano, organ and tape

with

Susan Matthews : vocals
Jimmy Ingram : drums

found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/512334/

Triumph (of the Rain) w/ Susan Matthews & Jimmy Ingram

Primordium 3.

Senglar com Noxin  - 333

iota

Video of this track...https://youtu.be/yRFws-HSwKc

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Night so bright (Disappearing Donkey Version) - disquiet0579

REMEMBRANCE   OF  THINGS   PAST   2

A simple sine wave of 130 hz undergoes a series of resonant effects.

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Resonant Range (disquiet0595)

Inspired by this haiku written by Santōka, a wandering poet and ascetic Zen priest, he was a disciple of Ogiwara Seisensui, one of the first poets to discard the traditional use of the 5-7-5 structure in haiku.
Santōka’s poetry emphasizes the necessity of sabi (solitude) in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment and serenity.
Early morning,
One star remaining,
It’s a good day too.

Haiku by Santoka Taneda https://www.chzc.org/Nonin.htm
Picture by freezydreamin https://unsplash.com/photos/SV3V-D1G2q4
For more information visit https://soundcloud.com/naviar-records

My Naviar Haiku

In the rays of a morning star (naviarhaiku492)

In The Rays Of A Morning Star (naviarhaiku492)

Pomen II for solo viola, 
live performance at Warsaw Autumn Festival 2018
Paul Beckett, viola

Milica Djordjevic - POMEN II

Performed & Recorded by Matteo Mariano (2019/2020) http://macrogramma.com
Original cover art by Dario Panzeri (2020). http://dariopanzeri.org

"Metafonia" is the Italian word that identifies the phenomenon known in parapsychology as "electronic voices". Metafonia I is the second track in order of publication, and the first in order of numbering, of a series of compositions inspired by this phenomenon. 
Approaching Halloween and the dark atmosphere of this historical period are reflected in the dark character of the song.

Each piece was made starting from vocal samples recorded and processed in real time with a laptop (and with the addition of some synths). The only voice behind these pieces is mine (at least I think, and above all I hope, even if I can never be completely sure), recorded while I was improvising random phrases, as if I were my own medium.
I waited a long time before deciding to finish and release this series of songs, the gloomy atmosphere of this end of October 2020 made me realize that it was time to let them go.
The project is to release all the tracks, one or two at a time, between today and the evening of October 31st (as per pagan tradition), to collect them in a single album that will be available on Bandcamp ...
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"Metafonia" è la parola italiana che identifica il fenomeno noto in parapsicologia come "voci elettroniche". Metafonia I è la seconda traccia in ordine di pubblicazione, e la prima in ordine di numerazione, di una serie di composizioni ispirate a questo fenomeno.
Halloween che si avvicina e il clima tetro di questo periodo storico traspaiono dal carattere cupo del brano.
Ogni brano stato della serie è realizzato a partire da campioni vocali registrati ed elaborati in tempo reale con un laptop (e con l'aggiunta di un po' di synth). L'unica voce alla base di questi brani è la mia (almeno credo, e soprattutto spero, anche se non potrò mai esserne del tutto certo), registrata mentre improvvisavo frasi casuali, come fossi il medium di me stesso.
Ho aspettato diverso tempo prima di decidere di terminare e pubblicare questa serie di brani, l'atmosfera cupa di questo fine di ottobre 2020 mi ha fatto capire che era arrivato il momento di lasciarli andare.
Il progetto è di rilasciare tutte le tracce, una o due per volta, tra oggi e la sera del 31 ottobre (come da tradizione pagana), per raccoglierle in un unico album che sarà disponibile su Bandcamp...

Released October 21, 2020

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Metafonie Volume 1

Metafonia I

— Composer —

Matthias Krüger is a composer of contemporary classical and experimental music. He has studied music composition at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik und Tanz and at Columbia University in New York City, as well as French language in Cologne and Sorbonne University in Paris. He spent the 2021/22 year following the postgraduate Cursus in electronic and computer music at IRCAM, Paris. His principal composition teachers include Krzysztof Meyer, Fabien Lévy and Johannes Schöllhorn. Aside from his activity as a freelance composer, he is currently a doctoral candidate at Hamburg's University of Music and Theatre, researching on hybrid composition between music, dance and theatre. Between September 2023 and April 2024 he is composer in residence at Goethe-Institut of Montreal/Le Vivier as well as a Graduate Researcher at McGill University Montreal.
He has received numerous awards (including DAAD, Berlin’s Mendelssohn competition in 2013, Cologne's Zimmermann award in 2015 and Prix Chevillion-Bonnaud of Orléans 2016) as well as commissions and has had his music performed in Austria, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and Canada as well as China and Japan, including festivals such as ECLAT Stuttgart, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Festival de Royaumont, Northwestern University New Music Conference 2014, Shanghai New Music Week and Mallorca Saxophone Festival, and venues such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Palau de la Música Catalana Barcelona, Centre Pompidou and Carnegie Hall New York.

His first portrayed disc "ain't nuthin' but fairy dust" was released in the fall of 2021 and has been longlisted for the German Record Critics' Award 01/2022.

craving your kiss (2020) // European Workshop for Contemporary Music [RETRACTED]

Matthias Krüger (b. 1987) // Composer

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