Percussion

NEFES.PAS.ÇIRA.IŞI (2015)

Composed for and premiered by Christian Smith (percussion) and Rosa Soler (flutes) in 2015 at impuls festival - Graz, Austria. 

Video recording of the live performance at Basel Hochschule Für Musik: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2lRkUlq6A

https://soundcloud.com/christian-s-smith

http://www.impuls.cc/

IMPORTANT: Please listen at a LOUD comfortable volume that makes your ear parts move a little. You should hear a lot of air shifting. (Ideally headphones or biggish bass-friendly speakers.) 


Written in close collaboration with Distractfold Ensemble, featuring: 


Rocío Bolaños - bass clarinet (w transposition pedals)
Daniel Brew - electric guitar
Linda Jankowska -  bowed kick + snare drums (drums outfitted with bridges + strings)
Christian Smith - bowed kick drum (as above)+ other percussion
Alice Purton - cello (w transposition pedals)
Sabrina Schroeder - transducers (playing bass drum, floor tom, and plywood cubes via live-manipulated sound waves through transducers).

Transducer performance interface developed with programming and design support from Josiah Oberholtzer, and from Michael Acker of the Experimentalstudio de SWR Freiburg. 

This live-performance recording was made at the 48th Internationale Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (Aug. 7th, 2016)

BONE GAMES (2016) for amplified ensemble

"Assemblage Theory" for two duos and a trio:
[cl, va], [vn, vc], [fl. in g, e.gtr, drums]

Distractfold Ensemble

Rocío Bolaños: Clarinet
Emma Richards: Viola

Linda Jankowska: Violin
Alice Purton; Cello

Zinajda Kodrič: flute in G
Daniel Brew: E. Guitar
Christian Smith: Drums

Recorded @ Elliot Program Center, Stanford University

https://corunda.bandcamp.com/album/mineral-superficies-de-tiempo-2

Assemblage Theory (2017) / for two duos and a trio _Distractfold

Powell Street Festival's performance of NEFES.PAS.ÇIRA.IŞI (2015) at the ISCM World New Music Days 2017 in Vancouver. 

Mark Takeshi McGregor - Flutes
Brian Nesselroad - Percussion

Performed and recorded at the ANNEX, 11/07/2017.

NEFES.PAS.ÇIRA.IŞI - Mark Takeshi McGregor & Brian Nesselroad

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1M45Ol93S4&feature=youtu.be

Jesse Broekman wrote Body of Unseen Beings in 2016 for Brian Archinal (Ensemble Nikel) shortly after his piece for my group Oerknal in The Hague, Narrow|Numerous, and is featured on our album of the same name: http://www.7mntn.com/narrow-numerous/ 
and here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhM910mG7Gs&list=OLAK5uy_m8AP8xJAv7LqIn-poL1JwvAyHksDIJh4w&index=5

Much of the rhythmic material in the older piece is featured heavily in BOUS.  

This performance is from October 27th, 2018 at Studio Loos in The Hague.

Body of Unseen Beings - Jesse Broekman

Recorded April 6th 2013.  Scott Levine, Sound Engineer.  
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/scott-levine/35/b01/b94



Bone Alphabet (1991-92) by Brian Ferneyhough

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NEFES.PAS.ÇIRA.IŞI (2015)

Murat Çolak