Engaging. Well worth the listen, a deft bit of "tonicality" at the end which should serve to enrich repeat hearings.

Timestretched to the length of the longest recording. Now available for download / vinyl: https://heyexit.bandcamp.com/album/every-recording-of-gymnopedie-1

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Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1

Live recording of my piano trio, 'Udyana', at soundSCAPE festival 2016 in Maccagno, Italy.

Performers:

Flute - Christina Raczka
Cello - Felix Fan
Piano - Thomas Rosenkranz

Programme note:

Commissioned by soundSCAPE new music festival, 'Udyana' is a reflection on a trip I made to Swat Valley, Pakistan, while it was still under Taliban Control. The true beauty of the landscape conflicted with the sense of threat; at times one sensation would overpower the other, or else both were simultaneously experienced in a strange paradox. The piece aims to capture and present some of these moods.

The musical material mostly consists broken chord-type figures and glissando-type gestures, which develop fairly freely and organically to serve the dramatic shape. The harmony is derived from spectrally analysing the piano's bottom C, including it's full decay phase, generating a pitch set which evolves and grows smaller throughout the piece.

'Udyana' (2016) - Piano, Flute & Cello

for solo violin, pre-recorded spoken voice, and live electronics

Premiere: 8 June 2018; Gallery 1412, Seattle, WA

Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
Ibidunni Ojikutu, spoken voice 

DARN. exhibits a counterpoint of evolving structures. Perhaps the most prominent of these structures is the spoken part that contains a number of reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Music achievement, collected from various online sources. The reactions are integrated into the piece in a particular order, ranging from seemingly naïve questions about what qualifies Lamar’s album DAMN. for the award, to bursts of blatant racism.

The piece is also a study on Roland TR-808, a classic drum machine that has shaped the soundscapes of numerous hip-hop beats. The electronic layer of the piece heavily relies on a digital emulation of the bass drum circuit of TR-808.

DARN.

Performed in EARTH#SKY#SPACE festival in 22/06/18, Hannover.
Conducted by Andreas Felber. Vocalensemble der HMTMH.

Fall, leaves, fall
by Emily Bronte

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

Fall Leaves Fall, for SSAA solo voices (2018)

Farewell, my sweet 9th floor...

"A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order." - Jean-Luc Goddard

New track from the album I am currently working on, enjoy!

Feast // Famine

Recorded December 2004 for Solo CD "Blaauw"

Isabel Mundry, Solo Auf Schwellen for double bell trumpet

Gleitend -Jieun Noh - LIVE recording (2017)

Claroscuro (2019) 

Performed by JACK Quartet

Recording and Mix by Jacob Sachs-Mishalanie

Claroscuro (String Quartet)

Laura Barger and Alexandra LaMastra, piano
Anthony DeMartinis and Russell Greenberg, percussion
Reilly Spitzfaden, no-input mixer

Premiered at the Yarn/Wire Institute in the Staller Center Recital Hall at Stony Brook University on July 1, 2019

Notes on the instruments:

Percussion 1 plays a speaker hooked directly to a 9v battery. Touching a pair of contacts to various irregular pieces of metal or parts of the piano completes the circuit and makes crackling noises. 

Percussion 2 plays a megaphone by scraping various materials on the microphone and making feedback. 

The no-input mixer feeds back the outputs of a mixer to the inputs. Turning on various combinations of channels and adjusting the gain, EQ, pan, etc shapes the feedback.

'Udyana' (2016) - Piano, Flute & Cello

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