Lexie Ross Directors' Cup Acceptance at Orlando World Center Marriott

I've never witnessed hail bigger than a dime-size in diameter. This hail storm yielded small golf ball-sized hail. You'll hear sirens come in at some point, thunder, and the sound the hail hitting the metal air conditioner units below my window. Unfortunately, I messed with the levels as it was recording due to fluctuating signals and the fact that I'm still kind of new to this field recording stuff.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Denton Hail, Thunder, and Sirens.WAV

II. Luminous Etudes:Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserr- Like the river with no end 
for flute and piano, Jean Ferrandis, flute, Alison Edwards, piano 
Like the River with No End for flute and piano is from my collection of Luminous Etudes: Visions of the Black Madonna of Montserrat for ensembles, piano, voice, projected images and electronics investigating sound and healing and the bio-mechanisms of vibro-acoustics in music performance. This work for flute and piano is inspired by the poem Arte Poética  by Jorge Luis Borges (1960), the Blood Moon of April 2015 (from the tetrad of four consecutive total lunar eclipses) and based on materials from O Virgo Splendens from the 14th century Llibre Vermell. 

Arte Poética  by Jorge Luis Borges (1960) Translation by William S. Merwin

To look at the river made of time and water 
And remember that time is another river, 
To know that we are lost like the river 
And that faces dissolve like water . . . 
Art is that Ithaca 
Of green eternity, not of marvels.
It is also like the river with no end
 That flows and remains and is the mirror of one same
 Inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same 
And is another, like the river with no end.


Madsen - Luminous Etudes - Like The River With No End

Performed/composed by Jane Rigler, on piccolo and pump organ (simultaneously) on August 26th, 2016, at the Civitella Ranieri chapel. Made in one track, no over-dubbing or other edits, besides minor mastering/mixing.
Gratitude to Composers Now and Civitella Ranieri for making this piece possible.

St. Christopher's shoulders (for piccoloist playing the pump organ), 2016

Lost Horse Mine: for Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Eclipse String Quartet, Vicki Ray pianist, Saousan Jarjour, voice-premiered February 21, 2018

Madsen - Luminous Etudes - Like The River With No End

Pamela Madsen Composer

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