Thunderstorm woke me up at 6am so quickly got downstairs and recorded a few minutes with a Schoeps CCM 2 stereo pair.

Gavin Vella

Doorstep Thunderstorm MixPre - 4765

Serious

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Matthias Pintscher
Recorded live at Cité de la Musique, Paris on March 30th 2017

Vayehi erev vayehi boker(2017) for ensemble

I'm writing
hours and days and centuries
beside me
lies the shadow of a girl that was waiting

once a troubled child
now a troubled man
people passing by
but I'm unafraid

nothing to lose
nothing to gain
I'm not your muse
you're far away


I'm singing
no one will know I existed
they're thinking
I'm not a threat just a misfit

once a golden one
now corroded
people passing by
yes I'm older

nothing to lose
nothing to gain
I'm not your muse
you're far away
my friend

misfit

human error

The one and only @frid_mars on the Korg R3, myself on the RC-505 #filmstadtunderground

Dopamin - Filmstadt Underground (atze187/Frid Mars)

TITELLOS

longing is an aviary (2023) for orchestra
 
This work draws its title from Ross Gay’s poem “Because,” which depicts longing with an evocative catalogue of images which are quivering, luminous, and full of motion. I explore this same trembling effect in a series of tightly controlled, virtuosic dances for orchestra which spiral outwards from a single pitch. This music is driven by a kaleidoscopic sense of color, a process of refracting and unwinding, and a momentum which eventually builds into a frenzied, shimmering aviary of birds. longing is an aviary was written for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, conducted by Tim Weiss in Spring 2023.

Performed April 2023 by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and conductor Tim Weiss, Symphony Center, Chicago, IL. Mixed and mastered by Marc Alletag.

Special thanks to Jonathan McCormick and Anna Thompson

Image: 'Aviary' by Annie Davidson

longing is an aviary (2023) for orchestra

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