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Finally listened all the way through! Amazing piece, Paul -- so colorful!

"scattered ways" (2015) EXCERPT
for orchestra 
(3.2.3.2/4.2.2.1/harp/2 perc/toypiano+synth/strings min. 6.6.6.4.3)

Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (RSO Vienna)
Johannes Kalitzke (conductor)

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picture: excerpt of a drawing by Elisabeth Naomi Reuter (from the 1970ies)

scattered ways (2015) RSO Vienna - EXCERPT

9 April 2021

Remix of Chris Kallmyer's traveling wind chimes.

More on this 485th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Strange Weather (The Assignment: Remix the pure sounds of Chris Kallmyer’s traveling wind chimes to your own musical purposes) — at: https://disquiet.com/0485/

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Strange Weather (Infusion) - disquiet0485

Cold Sun

Munitions depot

Funny Games

A fading light so far away 
As I try to escape and breakaway 
And I’ve lost control so pure so cold
 I fall into this ultimate void  

Overwhelmed by the emotions 
Where there’s no end in sight
As blue as the oceans
As I fade into the night 

 I try to break free  
From this darkness, consuming me
 Embraced by its cold hands 
A companion who finally understands

Written and recorded by Eduardo Mora, 12.18.20.

Overwhelmed

L’œuvre a été commandée par Radio France pour l’émission « Création Mondiale » (ex Alla Breve) le 9 février 2020 et a été réalisée dans le studio du Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) à Paris France. La pièce a eu sa création publique le 14 février 2020 au Festival Présences 2020 à la Maison de la Radio (Paris)

Portrait de la compositrice : France Musique 
https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/creation-mondiale-l-integrale/okno-de-rocio-cano-valino-diffusion-integrale-et-portrait-de-la-compositrice-80441

- MUSICWORKS 2020 | First prize in Electronic Music [Canada]
- Marcelle Deschênes Prize 2020 [Canada]
- PRIX KLANG! 2021 | Second prize [France]

(Excerpt) Okno [2020]

a string quartet is like a flock of birds (2020) 
nine meditations and dances for string quartet

Commissioned by Kinetic Ensemble in Fall 2020

Performed Nov. 1st, 2020
Kinetic Ensemble - Textures of Change
Live Oak Friends Meeting House
Houston, TX

I've been thinking a lot recently about togetherness and apartness; how while we grieve and reckon with the collective trauma of the pandemic we've been isolated from one another, but at the same time we're still struggling to find new ways to connect. And in a certain sense, a string quartet epitomizes these ideas: it's a coming together of disparate things, fusing solo virtuosity with a more communal, receptive way of playing. All four parts are equal, and each player has to be both a follower and a leader. And I've also thinking about how wrong it feels to be creating something slow and somber to be performed now, when a return to music-making should really be a cause for joy and celebration. a string quartet is like a flock of birds is structured in 9 interlocking movements, with slow, reflective meditations alternating with fast, rhythmic dances. The whole quartet is focused on the musical idea of togetherness: the 4 parts fit together like a puzzle, and only when all the parts are fit together do melodies emerge. Each section in the piece is about the players slowly finding each other: sometimes overlapping, sometimes drifting apart into different kinds of motion, circling around each other like birds in flight. 

https://www.paulnovakmusic.com/
https://www.kineticensemble.org/

Image: Photo by Daniel Biber

a string quartet is like a flock of birds (2020) for string quartet

Mais qu'est-ce, mais qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour foutre le feu ?

Qu'est-ce qu'on attend ?

"El mensaje está claro, el objetivo es reinvidicar... Las enseñanzas del pasado y las visibilidades del presente se manifiestan a través de la expresión verbal, corporar; de esa manera trascender y concebir la tan anhelada y exhaustiva emancipación femenina"

Dedicado a Ding Ling, Diana Mines y para todxs.

Dirección de Arte: Vermillion
Obra incrustada: Diana Mines (Autorretrato con trenza de niña, 1988.)

a string quartet is like a flock of birds (2020) for string quartet

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