Name: Strategy by Nic Gotham
Duration: 17 min 45 s
Description: 8 women (vocal ensemble "Putni") sing text excerpted from The Art of War by Sun Tzu (John Minford's translation used with permission) accompanied by alto sax (Nic Gotham), piano (Normunds Kalnins) and string bass (Kristaps Petersons). Composition by Nic Gotham

The closing aria from Act 1 of Vivier's opera Kopernikus, arr. by Trio Scordatura. With special guest Arnold Marinissen, percussion.

Tao tao tao (Claude Vivier, 1978, arr. Trio Scordatura)

8 women (vocal ensemble "Putni") sing text excerpted from The Art of War by Sun Tzu (John Minford's translation used with permission) accompanied by alto sax (Nic Gotham), piano (Normunds Kalnins) and string bass (Kristaps Petersons). Composition by Nic Gotham

Strategy

premiere performance, Theater Dakota, The Hague, April 2013 (with third movement spliced in from a rehearsal because the original distorted). Four movements: I. Progiesmiais II. Grass Wounds III. Jonui Plepui IV. Taksi Chorale.

Transmission (Anton Lukoszevieze, 2013)

I'm a composer and saxophone-player. Born in the UK, I've spent most of my life in Canada but lived in Riga, Latvia from 1998 to 2012. I now live in Toronto again.  As a musician, I split my time evenly between writing "contemporary classical" music and writing and playing jazz and jazz-related music. (Please visit NiMo Jazz here on SoundCloud to hear some of this.)

Strategy

Nic Gotham

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