Name: Minos by mjleach in Choral
Duration: 5 min 50 s
Description: Minos, for tenor soloist and mixed chorus (SSAATB, is the sixth section of a work-in-progress, Ariadne of Knossos, a piece exploring the pre-Hellenic origins of the Ariadne myth. I have used lyrics from several languages, which reflects the many different strands of the Ariadne myth. This section is an evocation of the bull, which was sacred in Crete before the Greeks conquered it.

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Great Horned Owl Duet at Canaveral Seashore
Recorded during the night in the woods close to Leeper House.

MS Setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8 
in a Cinela Pianissimo suspension/windscreen
on a Sound Devices MixPre6
Original recording in Wave 96kHz 24bit
Done during a residency at ACA Soundscape Fieldstation at Canaveral National Seashore in December 2021
GPS: 28.9035710, -80.8172030
Sound Ref : FL-211203-013

Great Horned Owl Duet at Canaveral Seashore

release on 11 March 2022
Dimer are :
Fabian Adams: @fabian-adams-968514271 // Jan-Einar Groh : @mopped

The Leipzig duo Dimer is composed of Fabian Adams on saxophone and Jan-Einar Groh on drums. On this album, each track is built from succinct elements. Whether it is melody, timbre or rhythm, each one is introduced with care and then blossoms in the long run.

Dimer - Setting 2_1

Matthew Sullivan "Gaba" excerpts

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Oversyche I

release on 16 September 2022 : https://wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com/album/visage-zyg-ne
@roxanem-tayer

Roxane Métayer is a French sound and visual artist now living in Brussels. She composes with the violin, primary wind instruments (ocarina and various flutes), archaic percussion and field recordings, fragmenting and reassembling them with synthetic effects. Nature becomes the backdrop of these wild soundscapes, populated by a phantasmagorical bestiary and an exuberant flora.

Artwork by Coline Llobet
Mastering by Adrien Lambert

Roxane Métayer - Sur Les Ailes, Huit Tâches

’tis no mere trick; here’s is a treat for you: a new Sequences release! 
‘Hypnagogia’, a 13 track collection of horror vacuum pieces. 
Discarded and strewn about, forgotten, dusty and old. 
They are presented here, together & hermetically sealed, instead of being eternally lost in the ether. 
A hommage to all things haunted. A candle for our ghosts of the past.
Footprints in a boundless terrain.

Guitar processed through cassette tapes and eurorack modular system.
Recorded & mixed May - October 2022.

Released on All Hallows’ Eve 2022.

Hypnagogia

In The Shine Of The Lamp

O Magna Vasti Creta is the first section of a work-in-progress, Ariadne of Knossos, exploring the pre-Hellenic origins of the Ariadne myth. I have used lyrics from several languages, which reflects the many different strands of the Ariadne myth. This piece is an evocation of the power, majesty, and mystery of Ariadne before her eclipse by the conquering Greeks.

O Magna Vasti Creta

Minos, for tenor soloist and mixed chorus (SSAATB, is the sixth section of a work-in-progress, Ariadne of Knossos, a piece exploring the pre-Hellenic origins of the Ariadne myth. I have used lyrics from several languages, which reflects the many different strands of the Ariadne myth. This section is an evocation of the bull, which was sacred in Crete before the Greeks conquered it.

Minos

"Ceremony of the Bull" is the third section of a work-in-progress, Ariadne of Knossos, which is a theatrical musical piece exploring the pre-Hellenic origins of the Ariadne myth. It is for mixed chorus (SSAATB) and string quartet. I have used lyrics from several languages, which reflect the many different strands of the Ariadne myth. This section is an evocation of the bull, which was sacred in Crete before the Greeks conquered it.

Ariadne of Knossos

Ceremony of the Bull

"Call of the Dance," for soprano soloist and 8-part women's chorus, is the second section of Ariadne of Knossos, a work-in-progress, which will be a theatrical musical piece exploring the pre-Hellenic origins of the Ariadne myth. I have used lyrics from several languages, which reflects the many different strands of the Ariadne myth. This refers to the ancient tradition of all-women choirs, many of which also incorporated movement.

Call Of The Dance

The Crane Dance is a dramatic solo for soprano and women's chorus describing the holy dance of Crete. In ancient Crete there was a form of choral dance using choruses of girls who accompanied dancers, called the hypercheme, in which a dancing and gesticulating chorus was reinforced by a stationary group of singers. There are no dancers in this piece, but the singers describe a dance. The piece starts fairly serenely and builds in intensity as the dancing becomes more frenzied, which is reflected in the choral accompaniment.

The Crane Dance

MARY JANE LEACH is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach’s deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities: “an acoustic Through the Looking Glass world based on sound that the performer is not making.” (The New Yorker).

Minos

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