Michael Vincent Waller
Ensemble Dedalus
Roulette 9/9/13

Amélie Berson, flûte
Cyprien Busolini, alto
Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, saxophones
Thierry Madiot, trombone
Deborah Walker, violoncelle
Didier Aschour, guitare

Ritratto for flute, alto sax, electric guitar, viola, cello and trombone

Check In

Check In (feat. Matt Ox)

Oscar

CONNECTIONS

Bali (feat. Valee)

Goin' Crazy (feat. TiaCorine, Matt Ox & Warhol.SS)

9Fifty (feat. Valee & Xavier Wulf)

TikTok (feat. TiaCorine & Zelooperz)

Right Back (feat. Valee & Lil Gotit)

Tru Tru

Tru Tru (feat. TiaCorine)

CELINE ( Prod. NEON )

Michael Vincent Waller is an American composer based in New York. Some describe them as one of the most interesting composing of the big city, and we surely agree. His music has been described as lyrical and introspective, drawing inspiration from impressionism, post-minimalism and world music. There’s a melancholic longing quite unique in his sound.

A student of names such as minimalist legend La Monte Young, Bunita Marcus, and Elizabeth Hoffman influenced, Waller compositions are suffused with an avant-garde essence of enthralling beauty.

Waller's most recent publication, Moments (Unseen Worlds, 2019 is a collection of minimalist pieces performed solo by pianist R. Andrew Lee and vibraphonist William Winant. The piano pieces bring memories of Satie gravitating between softness and more dramatic tones. The album draws on Western classical music tradition in its most archetypal forms through its use of modal melodies, triadic harmonies and metered rhythms. Yet the emotional heart of the music is not in attack, but resonance. The afterlife of sounds. Those elements that can’t be grasped and placed into easy historical categories. Behind his surface attacks, Waller finds hazy, edgeless zones that draw us downwards, into introspection – an “inward gaze.

For this mix Waller has prepared as pretty fluid stream of consciousness, starting with the austere and contemplative, building to the dense and dark electronic, blurring into jazz, funk, hip/hop -- then shifting suddenly back to hardcore dark chamber music, which smoothes out to drones, and finally emotive piano music.... (then a reprieve, coda / tour-de-force outro).



Tracklist
Bunita Marcus - Solo
Luigi Nono - Omaggio a Gyorgy Kurtag
Elaine Radigue - Naldjorlak
Deep Listening Band - Cave Water (Troglodyte's Delight)
Linda Caitlin Smith - Far From Shore
Zbigniew Karkowski - Electrostatics
Iannis Zenakis - S.709
Miles Davis - Savad (Live in Switzerland, 10/22/71)
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down
GZA - 4th Chamber
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Trans (Abschnitt 1)
Jlin - Unknown Tongues
Morton Feldman - Turfan Fragments
Phill Niblock - Hurdy Hurry
Peter Garland - Nostalgia for a Southern Cross
Michael Pisaro - Akasa
Young Thug - Check
Michael Vincent Waller - Love IV. Sizing
Kanye West - Jesus is Lord

Michael Vincent Waller - A Stream of Conciousness (January 2020)

http://michaelvincentwaller.com
Michael Vincent Waller is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living and working in NYC. Waller's work is expansive in its incorporation of avant-garde sound worlds and connecting them back to a more traditional, classical beauty - hailed by the New York Times as "sweetly lyrical" and "pensive". He also has studied world music, specifically raga, and focused on modal analysis. Waller's chamber works have been commissioned and performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble, FLUX Quartet, Ensemble Epomeo, Ensemble Dedalus, Eric Huebner, Jenny Q. Chai, String Noise (Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim Harris), Hilo String Duo (Caroline Chin & Brian Snow), Zentripedal Duo, Project SiS (Christine Kim), Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and many more, at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, and Spectrum. He has studied with La Monte Young, Bunita Marcus, Petr Kotik, and Elizabeth Hoffman as a graduate of New York University.

Ritratto for flute, alto sax, electric guitar, viola, cello and trombone

Michael Vincent Waller

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