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Tradacoustic series no. 176

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

creation: 2022/08/25

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"Crystallum" is a journey into the depth of the sounds by investigating the internal and invisible relationships of their inner components and the complex network of their nature. 
The piece is structured on the relationship and the mapping of all the possible natural harmonic nodes on the strings of each independent instrument of a string quartet. 

"Crystallum" is a compositional kaleidoscope of networks, organized with sounds in several levels and categories and pictured from different angles.

"Crystallum" is the thin thread between the past and the present, orient and occident, Maqam/Adwar system and Just Intonation music and inspired by the nomadology concept of Gilles Deleuze.

Commissioned by NeoQuartet. World premiere on 29th October 2021, at 10. NeoArte Synthesizer of Arts Festival Gdansk, Poland.

Crystallum for string quartet and electronics - 2021

Written for the Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP) Research Project
for violin, and electronics

Violin: Jeanne Côté

Audio: Recorded with MS-EHB-2-Sound Professionals-ultra low noise ear-hook binaural microphones by Jeanne Côté 
Mix and Mastering: Pedram Diba

Work published by BabelScores, Paris, France

ACTOR publication:
https://timbreandorchestration.org/writings/project-reports/musicians-auditory-perception

As Close As Breath

In this edition we welcome back Anne Chris Bakker, a musician and composer from the Netherlands. Some may recall 2021’s collaboration with Andrew Heath, with their album ‘How To Breathe Like A Stone’ and we are pleased to be able to present this solo record, ‘A Sketch in Leaving’.

Anne Chris Bakker’s music makes use of electro acoustic sound sources, to create minimal and experimental ambient music. Releases have been made available through labels such as White Paddy Mountain, Dronarivm and Unknown Tone, as well as a further collaboration with Andrew Heath on Rusted Tone Recordings. There were also recordings as Kleefstra|Bakker|Kleefstra on labels which include Low Point.

Bakker typically starts with small compositions created with guitar and for A Sketch in Leaving, a new approach was forged by using a piano and samples so that a new experimental path could be explored. Inspiration has been drawn from long walks in the Norwegian mountains and this album is in part based upon these experiences. The immense landscape, battered and bruised by the elements represents change and loss, as well as the emergence of freshly formed details. The titles of the album are mainly of places, people and concepts all set to the vast Scandinavian landscape, which is placed as a focal point within the packaging artwork.

A Sketch in Leaving

wlr115 Anne Chris Bakker - A Sketch in Leaving

Performed by Edvard Erdal, Guro Kleven Hagen, Eivind Ringstad and Amalie Stalheim at Norsjø Kammermusikkfest, May 1st 2021

Abrasjon II (2021) for string quartet

MÁRD for Ensemble
Composer: Parsa Zandi
Dedicated to my dear friend and teacher Mohammad H. Javaheri

Performed on June 29 in Graz by:
Flute: Kate Sabine Lasmane
Oboe: Mark Gradwohl
Clarinet: Jacob Niller
Trumpet: Thomas Kern
Harp: Anna Voronova 
Piano: Stepanka Vojtasova
Violin I: Sofya Agnessa Yakuntsova
Violin II: Jelena Jovovic
Viola: Aleksandra Kanke
Violoncello: Yigit Vural
Conductor: Ihor Kolomiyets

MÁRD (2022) for ensemble

Piece composed in 2002 for the trailer of the documentary 'My Three Peaks' ('Le mie Tre Cime') by Andreas Pichler. Direction: Andreas Pichler | Animation: Nunzio Cicero, Gigi Tarantola, Tatiana and Riccardo Arena. 
Part of the piece was later used in the final cut of the documentary. This track marks my very first experience with a sampler! I used Halion software (maybe version 2) and some sample CDs for Akai lent to me by a friend.
I put it here as it was, just cleaned up a couple of clicks, also because although I kept the score I no longer have either the sounds samples or the software to open the original project...

Tre Cime (Trailer Soundtrack - 2002)

I believe this dates to 2019.  I think it was a coffeehouse/listening room kinda thing in Atlanta.  We didn't really rehearse this much so it's a bit loose.  This song tells you so much with such economy of words.  It's a masterpiece, in my opinion.

Ode To Billy Joe (cover by the great Bobbie Gentry) Live (in an undisclosed location) in 2019

On Episode 255, Nujoud Merancy discusses the planning and considerations needed to design an Artemis mission to the Moon.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Artemis Mission Design

Recorded this performance on the 17th of September with a hybrid setup (hardware modular and vcv).

Modular + VCV live performance

Mars Sample Return Scientists Lindsay Hays and Meenakshi Wadhwa discuss the mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps Podcast

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 94: Mars Sample Return

"24" for voice, flute, 3 violins, viola, piano and electronic

Nataliia Popova - flute
Stella Hlukhova - flute
Irina Popova - violin
Frey Franzen - violin
Emilio Estrada - violin
Pavlo Shevchuck - violin
Richard Hellgren - viola
Polina Pohozha - piano and voice

Pepo Galán & Benoît Pioulard - Forty Seconds

For orchestra and electronics
Commissioned by IRCAM and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France;
Conductor: Pascal Rophé;
Electronics developed in collaboration at IRCAM with Etienne Démoulin;
Electronic part performed by Etienne Démoulin;
Recording engineer: Luca Bagnoli
Live recording at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique as part of Manifeste 2023;
Date: June 23, 2023.

"T   O       R             N" is an exploration of various psychological and emotional states resulting from inner and outer conflicts, namely the state of uprootedness, while longing and yet, failing to put down roots elsewhere, or the sense of uncertainty, predicament, and hollowness caused by personal or collective traumas; experiences that can haunt us for long periods of time, if not permanently…
The piece navigates continuity, interruption and the space between them. Within larger continuous sections, smaller segments with timbral, harmonic, gestural, and dynamic contrast invade the space and create fissures. These fissures may provide a temporary release from the preceding tension, while retaining residues from the previous section, and simultaneously, bearing the initial traces of the
upcoming section. At times, the electronics are treated as a magnifying mirror that echo and expand the orchestra. In other cases, they defy it as a disruptive force with contrasting dynamic or timbral qualities.

Image: "Silence" by Johann Heinrich Füssli

T   O       R             N

تهران ۱۳۱۹
ارائه ای از بنیاد آینه

پنجشنبه ها ساعت ۸:۳۰ صبح بوقت لس آنجلس
باز پخش:
پنجشنبه ها ۸:۳۰ شب
دوشنبه ها ۲:۳۰ شب
سه شنبه ها ۲:۳۰ بامداد

https://youtu.be/PptWzwYq_r0
www.ayeneh.org
www.AyenehMedia.org

تاریخ مشروطه ایران - نوشته احمد کسروی - قسمت بیست و نهم

An old forest in central Sweden with woodpeckers drumming

Woodpeckers in early Spring, Sweden

Pedram Diba (b. 1993) is an Iranian-American composer of acoustic, acousmatic, and mixed music currently residing in Paris. Diba's music features intricate, ever-evolving soundscapes that consistently reveal interconnected relationships among various sound elements and components, offering a distinctive and intellectually engaging listening experience.
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His compositions have been showcased in festivals and conferences such as SEAMUS, IRCAM Forum, CIRMMT-ACTOR Symposium, Festival Temporel, NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting, and New Music Gathering, among others.
​
Since 2019, Diba has been a member of the Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project. Through ACTOR, he has participated in and initiated various research-creation projects such as the CORE Ensemble Project, Musicians Auditory Perception (MAP) and Space As Timbre (SAT), which have led to peer-reviewed publications as a direct outcome of these projects.
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Diba completed his B.M. in composition at the University of Oregon where he received the prize of Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar in Composition. Later, he received the Max Stern Fellowship in Music to attend McGill University, where he completed his M.M. in composition under the supervision of Philippe Leroux. Currently, Diba is pursuing his Ph.D. in composition and music technology at Northwestern University with Alex Mincek, Hans Thomalla, and Jay Alan Yim. He is also one of the selected composers participating in the Cursus de composition et d’informatique musicale at IRCAM for 2023-2024. 
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Diba's music is published by BabelScores in both digital and printed formats.
​

Please feel free to contact me via email:
pedram.diba@gmail.com

Official Website:
www.pedramdiba.com

Babel Scores:
https://www.babelscores.com/PedramDiba

IRCAM:
https://www.ircam.fr/person/pedram-diba

ACTOR Project:
https://www.actorproject.org/profiles/pedram-diba

Music,
centered on dance but I made the circle very,
very wide, from everywhere, for everyone.
Enjoy.
...

2024/03/20:
My linux won't boot so I'm presently forced to use Windows, and because of the bug in Soundcloud's system my account is all messed up when I don't use a VPN to connect which I am unable to do now... trying to get help from my VPN provider.  Because of this, and because I started working very long days I will be less present here.  Sorry, I'm trying.

2024/02/22:
Hi,
"Tracks: 0" is wrong, it should read 40.
Ever since the closing of this account by error by SC two or three months ago, this problem has remained unfixed.  Soundcloud and their AI are apparently still working on solving this and other problems with this account, and with my other account ; )

2024/01/29:
What I wrote below was heart felt but presumptuous and pretentious.  I would have to not be stupid myself to be allowed to claim such a thing.  More importantly though, I don't believe it is correct or accurate.  These people are probably not stupid but just don't care.  Justice is a collective thing and many if not most people seem to live in bubbles.  It is perhaps economic oppression which is responsible, they just don't have the resources, the time, the energy to be concerned about what lies behond that bubble.  It used to be fine but there's this thing they call globalization which makes this increasingly impractical or impossible.

mid January 2024:
Justice and vengeance are not the same.  Apparently most people are too stupid to see the difference.  Unfortunately it is not something unique to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and not unique to group conflicts.

What happened to intelligence?  Aren't we supposed to be the "intelligent" specie.
...

Here's the other account, for celebrities, ... this one here is for regular folks:

https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong

I love you.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

As Close As Breath

Pedram Diba

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