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

Voice of John Cage (1912-1992)
Excerpt from his performance of ‘Empty Words’ (1974) 
Recorded at the Subtropics Music Festival in Miami, Florida in April 1991

Vocal guest appearance by Kim Gordon
Excerpt from a video interview for Huck Magazine (2017)

“John Cage's Empty Words (1974) is a marathon text drawn from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau. This is one of Cage’s most sustained and elaborate moves toward the “demilitarization” of language, in four parts: Part I omits sentences, Part II omits phrases, and Part III omits words. Part IV, which omits syllables, leaves us nothing but a virtual lullaby of letters and sounds.”

Source: The John Cage Trust 
https://johncage.org

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I went to see John Cage when I was ten

It puzzled me
It kept me up at night
I got a fever

Couldn’t stop thinking about it, though

It’s just something that always gnawed at me, like
Why was everything so spread out?
Why was the sound all spread out?

How did he get all these people to keep quiet and listen to him?

It kept me up at night
I got a fever

Kim Gordon

empty words etc.

for six players and electronics (2023). 

commissioned by Sinfonia Smith Square and premiered in Anghiari, Italy in July 2023.

flute: Ellie Blamires
clarinet: Raymond Brien
bassoon: Hollie Redshaw
violin: Naomi Warburton
viola: Wanshu Qiu
cello: Miki Piszczorowicz

I was thinking about euphoria in pop music, that simple, single-minded ecstatic feeling you get from so many love songs. I found some vocal samples I liked and slowed them down and looped them, imagining each one as a kind of sculpture, gently rotating round and round in a neutral, dream-like space. Still euphoric, but frozen like TV static, repeating obsessively like prayer ritual.

1. I STILL FEEL
2. YOU'RE ALL I NEED
3. DON'T RUN FROM ALL THE THINGS YOU FEAR
4. THINKIN' ABOUT YOU, I'M THINKIN' ABOUT YOU
5. WE AIN'T GOT NO PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS, YEAH. I LET 'EM GO
6. TELL ME I'M YOURS
7. AH, JUST DON'T WALK AWAY
8. I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU BUT I CAN'T SAY NO
9. I WANNA BE WITH YOU
10. YOU TOLD ME YOU WOULD NEVER, EVER FADE AWAY

https://bennobuto.com/break-up-mantras

Break-Up Mantras

St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, 6 April 2024.

for choir, organ, violin and sampler.

National Youth Chamber Choir and members of Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with Sofi Jeannin. For London Handel Festival.

https://bennobuto.com/face-anthem

FACE ANTHEM

【Haku Cover】MONO NO AWARE  かむかもしかもにどもかも！

song #1

back together *your safe haven

jeevan.eu/track/tenebrae

Any proceeds will be forwarded to families in Gaza.

linktr.ee/jeevn 
http://gazafunds.com

Stop the holocaust.
Stop the holocaust.
Stop the holocaust.

PWYW / donate to Gaza

Tenebrae

“Sun Sets” is an instrumental piece I wrote while processing my grandfather’s passing. It’s built on guitar and piano with some ambient textures, and to me it feels like the journey of a spirit, gently returning home. Hope it brings some peace to whoever listens. 


#instrumental #ambient #guitar #piano #soundscape #emotional #meditative #healing #spiritual

empty words etc.

precarious propositions