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John Gibson: Thrum

Live recording of the world premiere of Spirits Hover as part of the LA Phil Noon to Midnight festival — April 9, 2022 Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

Performance by Wild Up (Christopher Rountree, conductor)
Mastering Engineer, Murat Çolak
Recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of the LA Phil

Spirits Hover

Debut Single from M O N A K R

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Calling Out

Olivier Messiaen's "Appel Interstellaire" (Interstellar Call) for unaccompanied horn, originally written as part of a larger work called "Des canyons aux étoiles..." or "From the canyons to the stars..."

Appel Interstellaire

"in memoriam reducere studemus" was commissioned by Donald Nally and West Chester University and first performed on April 27, 1996, on a concert marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Anton Webern. It draws on Heinrich Isaac's motet "Natus ante secula," as edited by Webern, which was in turn based on Notker Balbulus's sequence of the same name. The text is abridged from "Anton's Webern's birthday," by Pierre Joris, with the assistance of the poet. The performance is by Donald Nally and The Crossing, recorded live on June 14, 2015. Score available at http://frogpeak.org/fpartists/fpbrooks.html.

in memoriam reducere studemus

Scrapman

New Rooms Moon

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)

Originally for 8-channel playback, here is a binaural mix - it's pretty quiet.

I started grainstream by recording the sound of seeds and grains pouring into mixing bowls.  The many discrete attacks of individual grains and the resonance from the vessels fuse into granular textures.  From the simple gesture of pouring, I sculpted these sounds into evolving streams and scattered them across the multichannel sound-field.  The first streams appear very close (hyper-real) and begin to accumulate in density.  Gradually, processed (unreal) streams emerge with more aggressive characters and overtake the 'natural' sounds.  Suddenly, a hail storm (real) interrupts with percussive, rhythmic character that is  then washed over by swirling, ritualistic bells.  grainstream is a meditation on the centuries old practice of seed-saving and the threats imposed by patenting seed DNA.  My aim is to create a music that embraces the need for balancing variety and repetition in rich, sustainable systems (both musical and agricultural).


grainstream (electroacoustic version)

Nicholas Cline

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