Tantalisingly "Gamelan like" at times [ e.g.@35 secs]but as soon as I think I recognise it as such I realise that is it's own unique self. Really enjoyed listening to this music;especially on repeat listening,though the subject matter that inspired it is truly terrible.

Got Conections Got Projections

Part of the compilation:
"a tiny tribute to Lou Ottens: lo​-​fi​-​ambient tunes for tape and instruments",
released by the label Tiny Drones For Lovers.

About "tiny tribute to Lou Ottens":

"Each track was created using at least one tape.
This is a tiny tribute to that great inventor who was Lou Ottens. His invention of the cassette influenced the mixtapes culture, but above all it gave musicians the possibility to create new worlds by working on tapes and their specificities. A hug mr. Ottens and a huge thank you from Tiny Drones."

community a tiny tribute to Lou Ottens: lo​-​fi​-​ambient tunes for tape and instruments

Double Prélude

Space Games

Heavy Space Bikes

Here's A link to the artwork;

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/prisoner-brain-captivity-thinking-6253261/

RiZLiX - Beat The Block

https://soundcloud.com/02022022/mmxixxviifrstspclm

MMXXIIVXVIIINVRSN

Can you hear the beat in the deafening noise?
Can you see beauty in the sound of space-time tearing?

If so, you are a member of the 暗黒爆音クラブ.

Welcome

暗黒爆音クラブ ：Dark matter Noise Club

Should of been home by now		
Could be with my kids by now
Instead you had your way with things

Should of been home by now		
Could be having steak and wine
Instead you had to break it

Shoulda woulda coulda somehow		
Think you might have tempted fate
You’re telling me it’s really named ‘HAL’?

HAL nine zero zero one			
Could have been home by now
we didn’t have the patience

Chin up, we’ll figure it out

HAL nine zero zero one
Forever lost in darkest space

[Words & Music - The Feckless]

one human at a time

HAL Nine Zero Zero One

https://youtu.be/r_YsaUAet2w

Edited: I decided to replace the song with the one that can be seen and heard on Youtube. In the aftermath, even the monotonous percussion work gets on my nerves. I left it out and played with the tempos a bit instead. I think that without percussion I come rather close to the Greek saga.

I hope the version doesn't disappoint the previous listeners of the "old" version too much.

🎞️ Video

Icarus (Ίκαρος)

Selected to be published in the Vibraphone Project's Centennial Compendium of scores in early 2023, this is a computer generated performance.

A streaming version of this work with an accompanying image montage to help convey more vividly the story of this music is found on my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y372ReVfhY0

I composed this work as an expression of deep concern for our planet and its people in the midst of the global warming impacts unfolding before our eyes. One local example of the devastating and rapidly unfolding impact of global warming is Indonesia and its capital Jakarta. So severe are the city’s infrastructure and health problems and so quickly is Jakarta sinking below sea level, the Indonesia government is in the process of moving its capital from the island of Java to the island of Borneo in a yet-to-be built city named Kalimantan. 

Jakarta has recently been identified as the fastest sinking city in the world due to the disastrous combination of depleting ground water from the aquifer beneath the city and global sea level rise due to global warming. With the growing urgent problem of supplying enough potable water to the city, the aquifer beneath the city is being over used and causing land of the northern area of Jakarta to sink below sea level. With the world’s rising sea levels compounding the problem and no coordinated effort to address solutions for these problems, parts this city could be completely submerged by the year 2050. 

It is with this image in mind of Jakarta sinking that I composed this music. The vibraphone has instrumental cousins in the metal xylophones of the Javanese gamelan orchestra and I take advantage of this in suggesting gamelan-like music at moments in this composition. The vibraphone’s fan vibrato is used sparingly for strategic moments to suggest a feeling of watery emersion. The over-all tessitura of the piece descends from its beginning through to a climatic cadence on a closely packed aggregate of pitches suggesting an F minor/major ninth chord (F, G, A-flat, C) on the lowest bars of the vibraphone. After this doleful sunken cadence, a coda softly rises from the depths of this cadential chord to convey a sense of hope.

My Heart With Jakarta Sinks In Rising Seas

‘The Solar System does not play well-tempered’ was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music for the ‘200 Pieces’ celebration of the institution’s bicentenary. It was premiered by Leo Kerr on 30th Nov 2021 in the Angela Burgess Recital Hall. 

The slightly whimsical title comes from a talk given by Dr Nicole Pawellek at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, in which she looked at historical theories of ‘music of the spheres’ (the title of her talk) through the lens of modern astronomy and astrophysics. There was one particular slide that leapt out at me showing how, amazingly, densities in the asteroid belt appear to exactly match the ratios of partials in the harmonic series! This became the starting point for my piece: on one side portraying the dramatic contrasts between the cold depths of space and violent encounters with asteroids, and on the other side, using the harmonics shared between a musical instrument in one’s hand and the asteroid belt as a source of harmonic and structural inspiration!

The Solar System does not play well-tempered (MP3)

20240501

I am a composer that is classically trained with broad interest and experience in world musics. MM New England Conservatory '86, BM University of Massachusetts at Amherst '76.

My compositions have won awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, New England Reed Trio International Chamber Music Composition Competition, a Bryant Fellowship from Harvard University, and a certificate from the 21st Century Music Project Competition of the the International Center for Japanese Culture in Yokohama, Japan. My works have been performed across the United States, Europe and Japan.

As a composer, I am interested in considering commissions and collaborations. Performing scores and parts are available to all my works here on SoundCloud through Universal Edition, J. W. Pepper Music, Frank Warren Music Service, or by contacting me.

I hope you enjoy listening here.

My Heart With Jakarta Sinks In Rising Seas

Martin Max Schreiner, composer

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