commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of Andre Hoffman, President of the Foundation Hoffman, a Swiss grant-making foundation and the Radcliffe Trust. The first performance was given by the Elias Quartet at Wigmore Hall as part of their Bracing Change: New string commissions series on 11.05.17.

difference is everywhere

focolai (2019)

exploring ppooll
https://ppooll.klingt.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

in the company of a harmonium

https://soundcloud.com/ttuttle: words, music, singing
doug: music

words:
hear at the tough trough
thoroughly rough sauce

who non in a hot pot
long pole casters 
what got the who not

see her at the laugh track
heroine

laugh track

Available on Spotify, Apple Music, and many other platforms:
https://linktr.ee/eternalsearch

Track 1 from the Sampler compilation album
Produced by @masaki-2

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Masaki Uchida - Irae

The basic tracks for some of these songs were scattered through other music I had recorded over the last ten years.  Quarantine has given me the time to hear some of this music with fresh ears. In most instances dozens of instrument tracks were stripped away to find some forgotten core that made me nod or smile.  Then I started again.  All new recording has been done since the start of lock down and tries to put a sound on the subtle dislocation of a global disaster that is mostly (for me) expressed in my daily life as an absence, a taking away rather than a presence; a distantly felt thing.  

All tracks recorded and mixed at Shadowbear Studio.  Mastering at Black Knoll Studio.  Photo taken by Csilla Varadi.

Sunday Light

This is the world premiere of the new work for double-bell horn, developed during the Virtual Brass Academy with Christine Chapman and Ensemble MusikFabrik, July 2020. This performance took place on July 30th, 2020 - in Cologne.
I am indebted to Ensemble MusikFabrik and the fantastic work they did with us in introducing us to the worlds of double-bell instruments, and to the ever-expanding repertoire of new music for these instruments they are bringing to the world.

The work explores a sense of dual forces that act and react upon each other, and how the relative mediator (the performer) indeed interacts with the score, the instrument and it's two bells, and finally how the theatre of the piece - both through actions and the position of the instrument - is transmitted to the audience. In the four sections of the piece that each explore a different facet of the manipulation of the horn - first through the use of a contra-bassoon reed to produce aggressive yet fulfilling multiphonics; then in the second and third exploring the two bells and their range of possibilities. The final section condenses the instrument down to only it's single-bell form and the mute and interacts briefly with it to express a settling within the performance. Gasping, grunting, growling and grandeur are all some of the ideas explored in this short miniature.

Image: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/1/15721268/gravitational-waves-ligo-future)

Understated Matter - for solo double-bell horn [premiere]

The sounds of Claravox Centennial performed by Gregoire Blanc.

Learn more about Claravox here: https://www.moogmusic.com/products/claravox-centennial

Learn more about Gregoire Blanc here: http://gregoireblanc.com/en/home/

Whitenoiseboomboom

Synths/effects: Korg NTS-1 + volca keys
Sequencer: Korg SQ-1

Fade

Maple and an Iron wood Chapman Stick Extraviganza. And Darbuka stolen from low and high places.

Darbuka

zoom live recording at Arboretum Festival, August 19th 2017

arranged for 11 strings
Forest Strings Ensemble

Carissa Klopoushak
Marc Djokic
Andrea Armijo Fortin
Heather Schnarr
Hilda Cowie
Marjolaine Lambert
Marlena Pellegrino
Thaddeus Morden
Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Sonya Probst
Paul Casey

difference is everywhere

Paul Newland