Commissioned and performed by Prague Quiet Music Collective

Part of a project called 'Five Uncertain Situations' with Prague City Gallery. Exhibition and concert at Dům U kamenného zvonu (Stone Bell House), Old Town Square, Prague in December 2022.

Bass clarinet - Anna Paulová
Baritone electric guitar - Ian Mikyska
Violin - Milan Jakeš
Double bass - Luan Goncalves

Mixed by Juraj Mišejka

This piece was written in response to a set of photograms from Aleksandra Vajd’s The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, which features two parallel lines, each changing colour halfway. To me this work is about things in flux, things moving toward or away from something else. In my piece, I am interested in how players might focus on periods of instability and change within and between sounds. By leaving the score more open, I hope to provide more space for the players to follow their curiosity and their ears, to be responsive to the sounds and to each other in the moment. - SL

"Sylvia’s piece is a rare occurrence: a simple, relatively undefined score that does not provide instructions for formal development over the entirety of the piece, yet immediately, the first time we rehearsed it, it was clear that the piece had a clear-cut character and a complex web of internal relationships. The simplicity and directness of Vajd’s photograms is here transformed into a focus on all the chaotic and noisy shadows, interferences, and byproducts that appear when players are tasked with exploring well-chosen, fluctuating effects and various transitions between them. Here, instability is always present at multiple levels — perhaps we could even speak of an interaction between instabilities, a dusty sonic layer covering the simple material play of the photograms." - Ian Mikyska

Overlapping Transformations (2022)

Aria Triste

"I think someone is trying to drive you crazy before finally killing you."

A tribute to an early work by the master of Giallo, Dario Argento. Long on style, short on logic, the movie is a twisted tale of murder. The original score by Morricone naturally sets a very high bar, and I am confident I might, with luck, one day manage to limbo under it. In the meantime: my own poor alternative take… Made & mixed live in AUM on IPad, using Hilda, Sopranotron, Speldosa, et al. Sequencing by midiDreams. No keyboards harmed during making of the piece.

Four Flies On Grey Velvet

> desolate street at dawn
> last night’s turmoil
> whispers in the wind

Track for the  Naviar Haiku Challenge 493
Made in Logic Pro, using VCV Rack for audio and MIDI FX (my DrumMap, RareBreed's Eugene, Audible Instrument's Texture Synthesizer, Valley's Plateau)

Haiku by marco sebastiano alessi https://www.naviarrecords.com/
Image by k8 K8 (@_k8_) | Unsplash Photo Community

Desolate Whispers [naviarhaiku493]

Spirit Cooking

Saturdays Modular Improvisation by Chris Gaston 10/09/2023

Paths 2

release date : 25/10/2023 
 naviarhaiku512 – Endless echo

Endless echo
footsteps on an empty house
once full of life

Third poem written by me that gets featured in the haiku challenge. As always, I hope you’ll find it inspiring.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 1st November 2023

Haiku by Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Picture by Raya Mal https://unsplash.com/photos/closed-window-ggeI8TyPeZM

Endless Echo Loop   (naviarhaiku512)

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Descend into the immovable silence of Liturgia Atra, the eighth ritual cycle of the Arkanæa saga. Here, in the cold echo of stone and void, the divine watches without whispering—no warmth, no seduction, only the gravity of ancient liturgy.

Deep, distant Gregorian fragments drift through bowed-stone drones and pipe-organ undercurrents. Metallic scrapes and bone percussion punctuate rusted bells and gongs, while reversed vocal loops and breathless Coptic murmurs swirl like wind in a crypt. Cold analog synths and subterranean thunder recordings ground you in monolithic austerity.

This is a fossilized hymn—an archaic, post-sacramental relic where every tone uncovers what should have stayed buried.

✦ Gregorian Dark Ambient & Cold Ritual Drone
✦ Pipe Organ, Bowed Stone & Bone Percussion
✦ Rusted Bells, Gongs & Subterranean Wind
✦ Reversed Latin & Coptic Vocal Textures
✦ Tape Decay Chants & Monastic Field Recordings
✦ Enigmatic, Minimal & Monumental Atmosphere

Presented by Arkanæa: witness the sacred shadow.

Initium

Meditations with a twist - some movement and some experimentation!

Endless Echo Loop (naviarhaiku512)

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