This goes so many unexpected and wonderful places.

Cámara Oscura

taken from the forthcoming album Above The Clouds

What You're Doin' To Me

Cartoons

microM

Electronic composition, sounds created in Pure Data.

Shifting Sands (disquiet0570)

the fourth excerpt from a home session

music by
Marco Lucchi : mellotron and synthesizer
Henrik Meierkord : cello

luglio 2023

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In July the Meierkord family came by to say hello to us. Henrik and I took the opportunity to play something together. Nothing demanding: a sort of 'warm up', which has become a 'session' in my small living room. We mostly used some 'loops' I had on my JamMan, improvising over them, or even more freely. The recordings are quite 'lo-fi', mainly coming from a dictaphone placed in the center of the room, but we believe they are a good testimony of our musical and human entente and of the pleasure of meeting each other in person. See you soon !!

The Living Room [w/ Henrik Meierkord] fourth excerpt

The Red Deer Rut (Brame du Cerf) recorded in the heart of the  the Orleans Forest, the largest Forest in France. 

Zoom F3 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH8020s
23.09.2023

Red Deer Rut - Forêt d'Orleans, France

A collaboration between Glitchface & Procrastinatrix

Glitchface & Procrastinatrix - Compass

Prozak for Lovers             

Love will tear us apart_Prozac for Lovers

sample from my steel tongue drum track.
played drums with it.
Thank you.

art work by afloe_art

Sinicuichi (free download)

Above the Fray (2020)
for multitrack string quartet

Performed by the JACK Quartet:
Christopher Otto (violin), Austin Wulliman (violin), John Pickfold Richards (viola), and Jay Campbell (cello)

Program note:

From today’s orchestras to the Titanic, classical musicians respond to catastrophe in the most peculiar way – play some Bach tunes. As intensely, beautifully, devotedly, and ignorantly as possible. Because Bach must be our universal healer, our vaccine, our band-aid, our paycheck.

Above the Fray pokes fun at this phenomenon by warping and distorting Bach’s famous “Prelude” from Cello Suite no. 1, unraveling its passages into threads that transform, detune, and degrade at different rates for different performers over the course of the piece. Unlike Western art tradition which believes that classical music is a one-size-fits-all solution, this piece dares to ask what if we all are not the same? What if we each have infinitely unique identities that morph differently under different circumstances? What if our responses to a piece of art wildly differ from each other and change over the course of our lives? And what if art itself is not a static monolith, but rather something dynamic that we allow to breathe, reshape, decompose, and reincarnate into new lifeforms over time?

Many thanks to the JACK Quartet and National Sawdust for commissioning this piece.

Above the Fray

Nina Shekhar

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