for percussion and fixed media.

I. Chroma
II. Value
III. Hue

performed by Joanne Chiang.
premiered in Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music in May 2022.

artwork: Sol LeWitt - Composite Series, Plate #01 (1971)

Video: https://youtu.be/knODmkcNeqU?si=qTI2aO6x1ZOQl39B

Three Studies

Voices of Cecilia Stark, John Lurie, Richard Edson, and Rabindranath Tagore 

Excerpts from a scene in ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ (1984), written and directed by Jim Jarmusch; and from ‘Tabu Mone Rheko’ (Yet Remember Me), written and sung by Rabindranath Tagore, recorded in 1932. English translation of the full poem below

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Aunt Lotte: Who are you?
Bela: Hi
Aunt Lotte: Who’s there?
Bela: It’s me, Bela. You don’t remember me? Bela Molnar – I’m your nephew
Aunt Lotte: No, I don’t see you for about ten years. How can I … thinking of you?
Bela: Are you happy to see me?
Aunt Lotte: I’m very happy to see you
Bela: Yeah?
Aunt Lotte: Who’s that fella?
Bela: This is my friend Eddie
Aunt Lotte: I’m glad to see you
Eddie: Hi
Aunt Lotte: I’m glad to see you. I’m glad to see you two. Come on, you
Bela: Okay
Aunt Lotte: Come on in
Eddie: Thank you, thank you

...

Rabindranath Tagore: 

Mone rekho
Oh, tobu mone rekho

Jodi dure jai chole
Tobu mone rekho
Jodi puraton prem dhaka pore jai nabopremajale
Mone rekho
Oh, tobu mone rekho

[…] Aachhi na aachhi

Mone rekho
Oh, tobu mone rekho

Mone rekho
Oh, tobu mone rekho

…

Tobu Mone Rekho (Yet Remember Me)

Yet remember me, if I were to travel far
If old amour were to be covered, in snares of loving new
If I were to be near
But you see me not, like a shade, I remain… or not
Yet remember me
If tears rest on thine eyelid
If play stops in still of honeyed nightfall
Yet remember me
One day when work halts abrupt on an autumn morn – yet remember
If ye remember
In splashed tears, and ye see me not from the corner of thine eye
Yet remember me

Poem by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Written in 1887

don't you remember me

a project created in december 2020 found from the archive 

Procedure:
A MIDI sequence was created with Elektron Octatrack,
which drives a piano track in Ableton.
The sequence was then broken down into four melodic lines.
The first line were transposed by +7 semintones
the second by +11 semitones
the third -13 semitones
the fourth line remains in the same pitch
then the harmony was extracted from each melodic line.
For each track, the ghost plays its part and sings as it pleases.
Next, for the sake of musicality, each ghost decides which notes to play and which to omit from its part.
During the performance the Time increase and the ensemble takes place
second take with the "singing ghost" track add

work in progress 

cover art is a waterpaint made by me in 1999

ghost I *take two

a project created in december 2020 found from the archive

Procedure:
A MIDI sequence was created with Elektron Octatrack,
which drives a piano track in Ableton.
The sequence was then broken down into four melodic lines.
The first line were transposed by +7 semintones
the second by +11 semitones
the third -13 semitones
the fourth line remains in the same pitch
then the harmony was extracted from each melodic line.
For each track, the ghost plays its part and sings as it pleases.
Next, for the sake of musicality, each ghost decides which notes to play and which to omit from its part.
During the performance the Time increase and the ensemble takes place
second take with the "singing ghost" track add

work in progress

cover art is a waterpaint made by me in 1999

ghost II *take two

a project created in december 2020 found from the archive 

Procedure:
A MIDI sequence was created with Elektron Octatrack,
which drives a piano track in Ableton.
The sequence was then broken down into four melodic lines.
The first line were transposed by +7 semintones
the second by +11 semitones
the third -13 semitones
the fourth line remains in the same pitch
then the harmony was extracted from each melodic line.
For each track, the ghost plays its part and sings as it pleases.
Next, for the sake of musicality, each ghost decides which notes to play and which to omit from its part.
During the performance the Time increase and the ensemble takes place
second take with the "singing ghost" track add

work in progress

cover art is a waterpaint made by me in 1999

ghost III *take two

ghost IV *take two

a project created in december 2020 found from the archive

Procedure:
A MIDI sequence was created with Elektron Octatrack,
which drives a piano track in Ableton.
The sequence was then broken down into four melodic lines.
The harmony was extracted from each melodic line.
For each track, the ghost plays its part and sings as it pleases.
Next, for the sake of musicality, each ghost decides which notes to play and which to omit from its part.
During the performance the Time increase and the ensemble takes place

work in progress

cover art is a waterpaint made by me in 1999


4 ghosts ensemble on piano

the latest composition from this series of songs, no further editing at the moment
work in progress

VI. il poema del'assenza ( Let the ghosts sing )

from the ep "late august stars against the early september sky"
Buy:
https://kwils.bandcamp.com/album/late-august-stars-against-the-early-september-sky-ep

don't you remember me

precarious propositions