This is my interpretation of this very emotional piece written by Daniela Mastrandrea

Dentro Me

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Track Notes
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About a week ago I was having a dream. In this dream I saw a sort of ancient, enchanted landscape, more or less like something out of Lord of the Rings. There was a broad waterway of some sort, with a narrow stone bridge crossing it. The waterway and bridge were actually quite long such that the ends disappeared into the mist. There was a young woman running toward the base of the bridge. She then turned onto the bridge and as she did so, music started playing. It featured an ethereal Celtic melody sung by a female vocalist. There were also some heavy, bassy drums thumping along, driving the song, and perhaps the girl, forward. At that moment I awoke from the dream. It was the middle of the night. The melody still fresh in my mind, I opened the voice memo app on my phone and sung the melody into it repeatedly. Several days later I recorded this song. The A and B melodic lines that appear repeatedly throughout the song (performed by a number of instruments including the main vocalist, the soprano whistle, the lute) are note for note the melody that I heard in my dream and subsequently sung into my phone. I honestly didn't even know that it was possible to compose a song in a dream. I'm still a bit baffled. But also very pleased as I very much like this tune and I think that the final composition has done my subconscious proud! Another interesting point, this time on the name ... it is complete gibberish but interestingly ALSO came to me in the semi-conscious state immediately following the dream. I have absolutely no idea why or how, but it did and somehow I feel it's rather fitting as it has a vaguely old english / ancient / Celtic sort of quality that feels well suited to the music.

Anyway, please put on a good pair of headphones and enjoy this little Celtic journey! Thank you for listening!
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Instruments:
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Bowed Strings: nyckelharpa (performing a drone-like bass line during the choruses), hurdy gurdy drone + rhythm (the one making the buzzing noises, my favorite instrument of all time)
Plucked Strings: cittern (B melody, panned hard right), bass citole, plucked psaltery, theorbo (for accents)
Percussion: tympanum romanum, frame drum x2 (one centered, one panned hard right), taiko (panned hard left in latter half of song)
Wind: soprano whistle
Vocals: female soloist, male soloist, female shouts, male shouts, female whispers

Aefthere Ahno

Æfthêre Ahnó

Listening with good quality headphones in a quiet environment is recommended.

2021.12.05 Night Wind and Night Wings. New Moon. Mallee Country. Early Summer.

Like iridescent clouds connecting the sides of a deep valley in the mountains, musical notes and phrases that Resonate like thoughts and feelings can bridge the Unfathomable Dimensions of this Wondrous Universe. 
We just need to Slow Down... and take the first step.


Improvised, Arranged and Mixed by Anomon

℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Inter-Dimensional Flow

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Atmasfera - Gopala (Album "Forgotten Love")

Completed September 14, 2022
Premiered June 3, 2023 at Current Space by Danielle Williams (cond.), Mind on Fire, and recorded live by Jason Charney

Supported by New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund for 2022-23
Commissioned by Mind on Fire

Original text:

Movement I - The apparition of these faces in the crowd...

worn-down, faded bench 
companion to weary travelers 
catching their breath between stations
we sat together
laughing into each other’s shoulders
as we ducked beneath neon-singed clouds 
of rush hour smoke
rolling, tumbling down
old-town alleys turned glass walkways 
noodle bars turned Apple Stores

Taoist temples turned shopping malls 
teeming 
thrumming
into the night
our hands nearly touched 
amidst the rhythms of the crowd 
as indefinite and fleeting
as the skyline around us 
my train arrives
I rise to leave
looking back through tinted plastic, I wonder 
in this city of forgetting
will you remember me?

Movement II - ...petals on a wet, black bough.

when I returned
the bench was no longer there 
they turned it into 
a Starbucks
the largest in the world 
I went in
a ghost among the rows of emptied Gravitas blends 
silhouetted against the Roastery Bar’s harshly gilded tones 
floating up the escalator past smoky mocha updrafts 
and glimmering Tom Dixon fixtures
when through a tinted mezzanine glass panel -

I see us
          past coffee-stained mugs and soft curls of wispy steam 
     together, sitting
undisturbed by the surrounding rush 
of raindrops and unfilled orders
the moment suspended
     a gentle warmth about us
unconcerned, content
as we laugh, sip, and remember -
hazily I saw their outlines rise
the pair evaporating with the last of the moisture 
into the crowd, out the doors
as a gust of smog blew in 
and filled their void

they built a bigger Starbucks in Chicago.

Large Ensemble

Nanjing West Road, for soprano, mixed ensemble, and fixed media

Tirta ening

Tirta Ening

Participation in the "Disquiet Junto" project led by Marc Weidenbaum: Filter Progression.
The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound.
https://disquiet.com/0595/
From a field recording of bees in a vine:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/abeille2
With a Pure Data patch:
https://github.com/gerardparesys/ARGOPd/tree/master/ExMM/ExMM196-4Flt-BP

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Participation au projet "Disquiet Junto" de Marc Weidenbaum: Filtrage progressif.
Faire une musique en travaillant un son statique.
A partir d'un enregistrement d'abeilles dans une vigne:
https://soundcloud.com/gerard-paresys/abeille2
Avec un patch Pure Data:
https://github.com/gerardparesys/ARGOPd/tree/master/ExMM/ExMM196-4Flt-BP

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: 
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0595-filter-progression/

Bee - Disquiet0595

Just for fun, I whipped this together one afternoon. 

I recently worked with a high school choir on a beautiful SATB cover version arranged by Jens Johansen... it stayed stuck in my head for hours after hearing it, so I felt compelled to do my best to record my own version, even though I can't quite reach the low bass notes. 

They won't ever see or hear this I'm sure, but in my heart I dedicate this song to my choir students, who move my heart and inspire me. 💕

Viva La Vida  - A Cappella Cover

Krsnahe Radhahe

Что делать, если без конца кидает то в благость, то в тамас?

Classically trained soprano Merina Dobson-Perry is a working artist and the owner of South Winnipeg Studio, a private voice instruction studio.

Viva La Vida - A Cappella Cover

Merina Dobson-Perry

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