Flute - Robin Meiksins
Violin I - Michael Su
Violin II - Abigail Peterson
Viola - Robert Pile
Cello - Grace Ann Lee

The Last Dance

Composers Conference Ensemble, James Baker, conductor

Wilderness of Woe grows out of free transcriptions of transformed audio taken from live recordings of Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. By stretching brief sonic moments—the sound of slack bow hair scraping against a violin string, the grain of a voice as it begins to sing—up to 200 times their original length, I transform these moments into vast landscapes of sound, revealing their complex micro-structures. These audio landscapes then become the starting point for my composition.

We live in a culture of information overload and distraction; my working method affords an extended focus and reflection on single sounds. Anya Ventura writes: "To be slow is to be disobedient to the world as it is." I invite the listener to go slowly and get lost in this wilderness of sound.

Wilderness of Woe: II. Wayfaring Stranger (2017)

Recorded LIVE at Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival 2017

NYC-based Sam Pluta is perhaps best known for his use of electronics in his instrumental music, but for his commission for us, “binary/momentary logics: flow state/joy state,” the composer goes acoustic while preserving elements of technologically-modified sounds. A perfect send-off for the close of the season, Pluta refers to this super-charged work as “pretty much full-on the whole time,” and you all are in for one wild romp.

SPEKTRAL QUARTET
Maeve Feinberg (violin)
Clara Lyon (violin)
Doyle Armbrust (viola)
Russell Rolen (cello)

Sam Pluta – binary/momentary logics: flow state/joy state (LIVE)

I like to play around with loops in garage band and then name them with bible words

Exodus

More and more Garageband loops together into one melody.

Mellifluous

Fugue in D aeolian

First track off of Foxbind's upcoming demo EP - hope you enjoy! Hold on to your Sun!!

Lyrics:

I misplaced the Sun, oh
I misplaced the Sun.
Show me what it's like
To be loved
In this sky
In this lie.

I misplaced the Sun, yeah
Tore it from the Earth 'n
Let it spin 'til it's
Gone.
Where's my home?
Where's my home?
(Gone)

Co-produced with WWE John Cena & his best bud John Spice

Misplaced the Sun (Demo)

featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn on mindfulness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2LebuLJmmA&t=329s

piano sample by Michael Kim-Sheng
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIoln3Av-_w

produced by Elina

love affair

whatever happens, happens

Sunrise

Currently pursuing a M.Mus in composition at McGill University

The Last Dance

Michael Kim-Sheng

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