Semnopithecus vetulus subsp vetulus - Semnopithèque blanchâtre - Purple-faced langur. 
Sinharaja forest
zoom f6  + Sennheiser MKH 8040 LCR ORTF
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Semnopithecus vetulus vetulus Sri Lanka Sinharaja - Purple-faced langur - Semnopithèque blanchâtre

Fay(tr)/fault; A fault is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. Faults allow the blocks to move relative to each other. This movement may occur rapidly, in the form of an earthquake - or may occur slowly, in the form of creep. Most faults produce repeated displacements over geologic time.
The aim of this piece is mainly create polyphonic texture with a solo instrument. The main material has explored in the piece with it’s inharmonicity and the textural and rhythmical aspect of it’s granular quality.

performed by Gregory Chalier (2022)

fay, for amplified solo bass flute (2022)

thus do we bid adieu this year of anguish and travail. 

don't let the door hitcha on the way out, and this time please let's make sure the new one comin' in is on the guest list.

ghost-whisperer: Sophia Carlotta Flohr

vale mmxxii

a short excerpt from " Riavvolti ( elegia for Alzheimer's disease )"

2023-11-01

Oscillation

Multlayer performance by Jeff Gburek and Karolina Ossowska. Compositional framework generated by JG -- process derived from feeding a fire place while playing frame drum, cymbals and singing bowls so that the sounds of kindling, shovelling ash and other actions blend with the playful dance or organizing the burn. Karolina Ossowska improvised 3 violin tracks to accompany the stem sounds. These violin sounds (col legno battuto, flageolets, pressurized bow-drags) were reconfigured, splintered with various time-line offsets but remain organic and never subjected to any granular convolutions. Sounds from shortwave radio SDR create a kind of cantus firmus reflecting yet again the ionosopheric morphing layers of the planet in geomagnetic warped transitions as expressed by signals bounced into open radios tuned between stations on the floor. Work in progress/regress, clearly. I am reminded of a recent conversation whereine I paid homage to the nature mystic and great Romanian-born architect of chaos theory music, Iannis Xenakis.

Witch Hazel Gathering

premiered by and composed for Madison Greenstone and Alexandra Smith.

No additional processing - only acoustic clarinet and metal sheet.

no dogs in space (2022) bass clarinet and metal sheet with transducer

Grain | Stream
for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists & electronics

Première:
October 22nd, 2023 - Donaueschinger Musiktage 

Performers:
Yarn/Wire
Russell Greenberg, Sae Hashimoto (Percussion)
Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer (Klavier)

The idea of stream recalled in the title and central in the piece has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie consists of two canvases showing a dry desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falling down from the balance’s dishes. 
That’s a strong symbol of a possible new life re-growing from the desert landscape which is directly connected with the art of alchemy transforming lead into gold.


On the other hand streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time until leading the perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosen.

Grain I Stream

habitat

Deux exemples du chant d'un Siffleur des montagnes de Martinique. Expl 01 oiseau isolé à la parabole. Expl02 oiseau en ambiance cardioide.

SIFFLEUR DES MONTAGNES F Deroussen

From second light till after sunrise.

MKH 8040s in ORTF into MixPre-6.

Recorded with respect on the land of the Ngadjuri people.

2024.05.26 A Dawn of Ravens. Late Autumn.

Passionné par les sons en général mais avant tout par les sons de la nature. J'ai donc une affection particulière pour l'audionaturalisme mais je suis ouvert aussi au field recording plus largement.

Semnopithecus vetulus vetulus Sri Lanka Sinharaja - Purple-faced langur - Semnopithèque blanchâtre

Chercheur de sons - Olivier Pichard

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