PIMPIN' by Jacob TV.

PIMPIN' for baritone sax and boombox (soundtrack) featuring the baritone sax as the soloist was composed between August 2007 and February 2008. It is dedicated to two great baritone saxophonists: Connie Frigo in the USA and Willem van Merwijk in the Netherlands. PIMPIN' is based on original speech by American Pimps and Prostitutes.

Performance by Menne Smallenbroek.
Recorded and Mixed by Daniel Carvalho.
Special thanks to Fernando Ramos and André Lourenço.

You can check the video here on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRI1obuj1ks

PIMPIN' by Jacob TV performed by Menne Smallenbroek

Trends at Odds - Live Performance June 6 2014 @ Café Concerto da ESMAE

Written, performed and produced by Tiago Ralha and Menne Smallenbroek

Live electronics - Tiago Ralha
Baritone Saxophone - Menne Smallenbroek

Recorded by Tiago Candal
Mixed by Tiago Ralha

Special thanks to: Rui Lima, Henk van Twillert, Fernando Coutinho, Luis Silva

Trends at Odds is a duo for baritone saxophone and live electronics written by Tiago Ralha and Menne Smallenbroek. This piece was written while participating in the course of Práticas Oficinais II – Som. This course resulted in the context of a live performance and was premiered on the 6th of June 2014 in Café Concerto at the ESMAE. The composition consists of a introduction followed by five movements: The Void, Spatial Awareness, Kinesthetic Awakening, Society, Industry, and a closing. Each movement is a representation of our initial concept, namely numerology, and aims at demonstrating various compositional tools in which the musical implication of numerology is best exemplified. 

The introduction, titled Noise, resembles the beginning of everything; the Big Bang. 
The first movement, The Void, in which a single note being played on the baritone saxophone, illustrates the vacuum of pure emptiness. 
The second movement, Spatial Awareness, highlights a natural process similar to abiogenesis, in which the first musical information arises and shows the first signs of life.
 In the third movement, Kinesthetic Awakening, a beginning of intelligent life is displayed and intends on showing the physical movement. 
The fourth movement, Society, shows tradition being translated through a repetitive musical phrase. This movement slowly progresses into the fifth movement, Industry, in which the wheels of the industrial revolution are imitated and played through the use of harmonic textures on the baritone saxophone. 
The piece ends with a closing, called reversed Noise, in which the introduction is repeated in reversed direction.



Trends At Odds

À Proa by José Afonso

This arrangement of À Proa was written and performed live for my masters recital at the ESMAE in Porto, Portugal. I wrote this arrangement as an homage to the late José Afonso. A loop station was used to play the various musical phrases on the baritone saxophone. The multi-track of the live performance was then edited and mixed in collaboration with Tiago Ralha.



À Proa by José Afonso

I made this arrangement as  reinterpretation of a Fado from Coimbra and was originally written by Ângelo Araújo. It applies Harmonic Textures for Baritone Saxophone, a technique I developed, to create a semi-harmonic base for the arrangement. It was performed live during the Amersfoort Jazz Festival in June 2017 and recorded by Connect2Multimedia O.P.S. microphone systems. https://soundcloud.com/connect2multimedia

Feiticeira

Press Release - David Lang

Baritone Saxophone - Menne Smallenbroek
Recording - Fernando Ramos

Press Release - David Lang

Tsmindao Ghmerto by Evan Ziporyn.

Live recording of Tsmindao Ghmerto transcribed for baritone saxophone.


"Tsmindao Ghmerto" literally means "Hold God" or "Sanctus" and is based on a Georgian religious vocal piece for men's chorus. The choral piece is in three part harmony, which is achieved on the baritone saxophone using tremolo and multiphonics while singing into the instrument. The result is a unique and almost electric sound.

Recorded and mixed by Tiago Ralha

Tsmindao Ghmerto - Evan Ziporyn

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