Single from the album ' 死生観(Views of life and death )'

Album playlist : https://soundcloud.com/user-541428630/sets/my-heart-to-reflect-in
Download : https://orientallove.bandcamp.com/album/view-of-life-and-death

sampling source
      voice : Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫）
      sax    :  Kaoru Abe ( 阿部薫)
noise improvisation contains 檄 .
     (檄 means the speech of Yukio Mishima just before the harakiri )

(voice 1)
The world I had been living in where was it heading , how would it change like this ? That was completely strange .

We are living in an era without heroic death .
There is no state of tension that living is based on dying .
There are no "great causes" .

I only had a strange blank feeling bypassing emotions .

Though the world was supposed to collapse , still the trees , the green around was bathing in the thick light of summer .
That was completely strange .

Human lives are mysterious, in that human beings are not strong enough to live and die just for themselves .
It is because human beings always think of living for some kind of ideal and they soon get bored of living just for themselves .
It is because of this that the need to die for something arises .

(the idea )that death will come sometime and when I was thinking that it would come in near future , that psychological state , compared now , was happy .
That is actually a strange thing , but in my memory , it does not just look beautiful .
Human beings , in those moment , strangely become happy .

something more honorable , something for a cause is how I would like to die .
And living thinking these things I think I will probably die on a Tatami mat .
There are no `great causes` .

(voice 2)
It seemed to continue as an era of peace and security, but there is no drama . ( there are no "great causes ". )

Modern people can no longer die dramatically .
( there are no "great causes ". )
You might call this the boredom of living .

I think it is natural for me to find it obscene for human beings to live only for themselves .
If we can not find values that go beyond thinking just for ourselves in our minds , we might come to think it to be meaningless to go on living .

Samurai  had to choose death first in sink or swim situations .
It is because of this that the need to die for something arises .
That need is the "great cause " that talked about in the past samurai .
Dying for "great causes"  was considered the most glorious , heroic , or brilliant way of dying .

However , there are no " great causes " now .

So , I will die like a bee inside a cell in a hospital room .
( there are no "great causes ". )

Video

三島由紀夫と死生観についての考察 ( Views of life and death about Yukio MIshima)

Vormaks II

a video here:
https://youtu.be/NaMYCAw5194
or
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3XBcJYIaxa/

hormigas

Sympathetic Resonance

Quatuor Bozzini performance at Guildhall School of Music 12.03.2019
Clemens Merkel - violin
Alissa Cheung - violin
Stéphanie Bozzini - viola
Isabelle Bozzini - cello

difference Is everywhere (altered) - Quatuor Bozzini 12 - 03 - 2019

a video here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9WsdM1IMA4/
or:
https://youtu.be/DbJJ7sI0YE0

short radio preamble

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)
/live recording/

Branko Džinović (accordion)
Aleksandar Latković (cello)

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Hall
10 March 2020

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)

Back To The Fields

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]

Tutta

https://demiancatwater.bandcamp.com/releases

difference Is everywhere (altered) - Quatuor Bozzini 12 - 03 - 2019

Paul Newland