Forms of Sound Festival- February 3, 2017. Lands' End Ensemble / New Voices New Directions Concert. Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn is a multi-movement work for a mixed chamber ensemble and sound files. In this work, I explored transmutations and combinations of a variety of musical material derived from the musical traditions of several minority religious communities in Istanbul. The piece comprises six movements, each of which is dedicated to one of the musical traditions of Istanbul. The first movement, "Time", is dedicated to Orthodox Christianity; the second movement, "Cry", is dedicated to Sunni Islam; the third movement, "Kam", is dedicated to the old pagan religion of the Turkic people (Tengriism); the fourth movement, "Triangle", is dedicated to Catholic Christianity; the fifth movement, "Exodus…again", is dedicated to Judaism and, the sixth movement, "Spin", is dedicated to Sufi Islam. Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn captures the expressive character of the religious practices in a manner that reveals the ways in which they have maintained their own identity and profoundly affected each other. The piece is a celebration of the generous character of Istanbulite society and an attempt to bring that spirit, in an aesthetic manner, to a wider audience.

Sacred Voices of the Golden Horn

Watch out... Gets abrasive over time.

A networked rendition of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room" that I recorded partly for fun and partly to demonstrate network glitches for the MUSI 551 class I taught in January 2018.

I am sitting on a network

Naithan Bosse

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