http://www.babelscores.com/en/catalog/instruments-and-electronics/empreintes-digitales

Joakim Sandgren - Empreintes Digitales

Johan Svensson - Down for violin and electronics (2012). Premiered at Amici della Musica Cagliari 2012, recorded at NMH Oslo 2013.

Johan Svensson - Down for violin and electronics (2012)

This is the fourth in a series of Ambient Music pieces. It is composed as generative music. The source-code can be found at github.com/danielstahl/ambient-music-4.

Ambient Music 4

for sextet and electromechanical devices

Ensemble Mosaik
Berlin, Berghain
04/09/2014

Regnum vegetabile follows the model of our previous work Regnum animale, and thus it can be said that it is a sort of second chapter in a reflexion about nature and its conceptualisation.

As in Regnum animale, two references are at the base of Regnum vegetabile. The first is the Medieval tradition of herbaria, intended as multi-faceted catalogues of miscellaneous plants, among which different relations can be defined. A second reference for the work is taxonomy, that is, the systematic description of living organisms that dates back to Linnaeus' Systema Naturae as the Rationalistic possibility of ordering the polymorphous (and many times teratomorphic) appearance of nature. In Regnum vegetabile the main refer- ence from the plant regnum are cacti, green plants with wooden-like structures and animal-like claws that are not by chance native of the New World.
One of the foundational aspects of taxonomy in the so-called “binomial nomenclature”, that provides for each organism a name specifying its place in relation to other organisms by means of the couple genus et species. This way of “giving name” to beings is at the origin of the titles of the piece.
The heterogeneity of herbaria and cacti is at the origin of both the setup and the organisation devised for Regnum vegetabile. The for- mer includes traditional acoustic instruments (string and wind trio), surrounded by an amass of computer-driven, electro-mechanical devices that focus on air production (i.e. wind instruments) by means of modified hair dryers.
For what concerns the organisation, indeed the general model is the catalog: Regnum vegetabile is thus a sequence of short pieces, each one dedicated to an imaginary plant. Here the second model –taxonomy– enters into play: each of the pieces has received a name following the binomial nomenclature. Hence, Regnum vegetabile is also the second chapter (after Regnum animale) of a systematic report about the strange creatures found in a terra incognita.

Mauro Lanza / Andrea Valle - "Regnum Vegetabile" (2014)

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrm5t0i4V1k

Work: Emergency Procedures (for large ensemble, four soloists and electronics)
Composer: Daniel Moreira (www.daniel-moreira.com)

performed by: 
Ensemble Modern (www.ensemble-modern.com)
conductor: Johannes Kalitzke (www.johanneskalitzke.com)

Cresc. Biennale für moderne Musik
Hessischer Rundfunk, Sendesaal
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
24.Nov.2013

Emergency Procedures (Ensemble Modern, Cond. Johannes Kalitzke) 2013

Studio recording with Karin Hellqvist

For: violin and electronics

Down (2012) [new mix] for violin and electronics. Performed by Karin Hellqvist

junkyard piece I (for an ensemble of musicians and found objects) [2014/15]

*live recording of the premiere with ensemble recherche (20.11.2015 - Freiburg, DE)

junkyard piece I (version 1), 2014/15 *live recording (premiere), ensemble recherche

marsyas and apollo (2017), étude for piano harmonics.
Performed by Jonas Olsson.
Recorded at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå, on December 3, 2017 by Johan Svensson and Martin Rane Bauck. Mixed by Martin Rane Bauck.
Part of the project www.pianoharmonics.com.

marsyas and apollo (2017), étude for piano harmonics [Jonas Olsson]

Piece for prepared solo piano written as a tribute to John Cage, in 2012
The idea was to describe an imaginary sculpture, a big mechanical mobile and its movements. Musical automaton.

Michelle Agnes, piano


Recording and mix Ulrich Schneider

Mobile for solo piano (2013)

World premiere in Göteborg
Current saxophone quartet

Down (2012) [new mix] for violin and electronics. Performed by Karin Hellqvist

Johan Svensson

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