A piece written for and performed by the string ensemble Musica Vitae in April 2021. Special thanks to conductor Michael Bartosch, Mårten Sundén for mixing the track and playing violin, and my teacher Malin Bång for the guidance.

https://www.musicavitae.com

The Soft Machine (2021)

Devin Disanto - Folding Manila Envelopes
Jung Yeon Cho - Printing Calculator

Mastered By – Joe Panzner

Recorded May 14, 2013 at ESS.

Devin DiSanto / Jung Yeon Cho - Two Positions (excerpt)

Devin DiSanto - Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field [Rope Editions]

Art Work and Photography - Devin
Cover Art - Devin, Jae
Mastering - Jack Callahan

ropeeditions.bandcamp.com

Devin DiSanto - 4

B side of Mohel's The Second Temple LP (Verdura 2012)

1. Raga for Brutal France
2. A Trucker's Dream

Janne Martinkauppi: alto/baritone sax
Sami Pekkola: tenor sax
Petri Pirtilä: drums
Jaakko Tolvi: drums
Taneli Viitahuhta: tenor sax, flute

Everybody plays percussions

Recorded on October 13-14th 2010 at Oranssi/Tiivistämö, Helsinki
Recorded and mixed by Ilpo Heikkinen
Mastered by Teemu Korpipää

Cover design by Mase Mylle
Photography by Grimm
Produced by Janne Martinkauppi

Verdura Records 2012

Sinulle äiti

Mohel - The Second Temple (Raga for Brutal France / A Trucker's Dream)

A side of Mohel's The Second Temple LP (Verdura 2012)

1. Religious Drone

Janne Martinkauppi: alto/baritone sax
Sami Pekkola: tenor sax
Petri Pirtilä: drums
Jaakko Tolvi: drums
Taneli Viitahuhta: tenor sax, flute

Everybody plays percussions

Recorded on October 13-14th 2010 at Oranssi/Tiivistämö, Helsinki
Recorded and mixed by Ilpo Heikkinen
Mastered by Teemu Korpipää

Cover design by Mase Mylle
Photography by Grimm
Produced by Janne Martinkauppi

Verdura Records 2012

Sinulle äiti

Mohel - The Second Temple (Religious Drone)

Performed by Ictus
(Photo of Speak Percussion performing 'Lightness')

LIghtness

" [...] ostendo primo conditionem hominum extra societatem civilem, quam conditionem appellare liceat statum naturæ, aliam non esse quam bellum omnium contra omnes; atque in eo bello jus esse omnibus in omnia. I demonstrate, in the first place, that the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all; and in that war all men have equal right unto all things. "
Thomas Hobbes

Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes aka FFA!

Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes aka FFA! /  Symphony Orchestra

Composed spring 2020, for and premiered by Curious Chamber Players September 30th

"...But you would have said communication between them was less happy than in the past: to be
sure, words were more useful than objects and gestures in listing the most important things of
every province and city – monuments, markets, costumes, fauna and flora – and yet when Polo
began to talk about how life must be in those places, day after day, evening after evening, words
failed him, and little by little, he went back to relying on gestures, grimaces, glances...” -Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities (1972)

Enormous thank you to:
Moa Bromander - Bass Flute
Dries Tack - Bass Clarinet
Emelie Molander - Violin
My Hellgren - Cello
Fredrik Munk Larsen - Guitar
Anna Christensson - Piano
Rei Munakata - Conductor

Cities & Layers

https://soundcloud.com/noak-esbj-rnsson/string-orchestra-2021?fbclid=IwAR3tHku-cDpzvlY_s0TnxHXDVQgEsNcIpOauVcsMr5qFp14xjBPUkThffvo

The Soft Machine (2021)

Noak Esbjörnsson

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