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Emma's Song [For Cello & Piano]

Takahiro Kido - Where Time Goes

1: mathematical rhythms, harmonic maths
2: gentle sway of patterned sounds, as if the wind
3: A gentle weave of many harmonics
4: As if a guitar bending notes
performed by Emanon String Quartet

1 Songs of symmetry 2

André Gagnon Le Pianiste

songs for someone

missng someone i`ve never seen

I Died When She Left Me

written and performed by luca longobardi

avalaible on Bandcamp at: http://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/residue-solo-piano-version

Residue (solo piano version)

All music composed & performed by Dominique Charpentier 
© 2017 Dominique Charpentier. Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance & broadcasting prohibited. All rights reserved. Made in the E.U
Recorded, mixed & masterised by Dominique Charpentier. 
Photo by Chad Greiter: https://unsplash.com/@cgreiter

This piece was inspired by the beautiful city of Rome

Roma

Hi - here is the last piece from my concert in London last year, called Devotion.  I hope you like this :)

Devotion (Live at St James's Church)

Joanna L'Estrange, Solo Vocalist For Serenity By Nicolas Errera

Premiere performance, recorded January 18th, 2020 at uOttawa as part of the Percussive Arts Society's PAS Days.

Personnel: Andrew Harris, Alec Joly Pavelich, Ron Berman, Nate Mears

Thank-you to Brydone Charlton, Jean Lesage, Robin Lawson and Andrew Harris.

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when
the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name
is spoken for the last time.”
- David Eagleman (author and neuroscientist), Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

I am interested in the death of languages and how this applies to the natural world - not only is there a final individual of a dying species, but there is also a final utterance of a dying species’ language.

The terminarch, or endling, is the last known individual of a species or subspecies.

I have chosen 12 birdsongs, all of which are from endangered Canadian species:
King Rail
Ancient Murrelet
Sage Thrasher
Greater Prairie Chicken
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Burrowing Owl
Rusty Blackbird
Acadian Flycatcher
Flummulated Owl
Yellow Rail
Short-Eared Owl
Lewis' Woodpecker

When I set out to transcribe birdsong for a percussion quartet, it was important for me to preserve the dissonances of both pitch and rhythm, and in particular, the fluctuation between repetitions. No two iterations of a bird call are precisely the same. 
This birdsong featured in this piece undergo various kinds of musical deconstruction.

This piece uses the simple concept of consonance vs. dissonance.

As humans, we seem to want to create an order, a consonance that is not naturally occuring in nature.
We like flatness, right angles, and repetition at fixed intervals.
As the birdsong deteriorates, a hymn emerges that is extremely consonant and orderly, in terms of harmony and rhythm.
With this music I ask myself, where lies the chaos in this relationship? Is it the randomness of the birdsong? Or is it truly chaotic to demand a consonant resolution in a natural world that is indifferent to our orderly desires?

Terminarch - live performance

Music by Max Richter 
you can watch the masterpiece (Official Music Video by Yulia Mahr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWrc6ihmaE0

Max Richter - Mercy

Mohamed Alaa ✪

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