And Then She Drifted Off Into The Night Never To Bee Seen Again

Voice of Tanaya Vyas, reciting ‘Trees’, a poem by Gulzar
Published in Gulzar: Green Poems, Penguin Books India, 2014
Translated into English by Pavan K. Varma
   
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Trees

When trees pause to think, flowers bloom 
Dipping their fingers in the sunshine
They write their thoughts on swaying branches
Picking their words in different hues of colour
They converse with fragrances and call us to them, 

Look at our passion:
The moment anything emerges which is fragrant, 
We chop off its neck!

trees

unlike the first version (recorded in 2020) the introduction is missing with that fantastic Pad-style sound which was actually a sample I recorded of a jute piece of furniture, the same sample used for the song precisely called: Juta.
here the piano part, unlike the first version which was more focused on the search for harmonic contrasts, is actually performed and I had to give up many notes (which for technical reasons I am not able to perform) and I don't even know if it is really possible for someone... I have been practicing it for some time and I still do it almost every day in performance and for some time I have wanted a new recording made properly with my hands on the keyboard.
You can find the first version here, in case you want to compare the two versions:

https://soundcloud.com/alias_nadir/dont-forget-to-breathe-whatever-happens?si=c6357eb0ab834e21ba0debb36a9f692c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

still in progress

Don't Forget To Breathe (whatever Happens) _*Solo Piano

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

for choir, organ, violin and electronics.

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！

Video: https://youtu.be/npdlfmjvhgk

Tic-tac-toe on a guitar. This short recording is an instance of a process meta-composition called OX, all of whose musical parameters are generated in realtime from a game of noughts and crosses. The only random thing is the gameplay itself.

Download: jeevan.eu/track/ox

Proceeds from downloads will go towards fundraisers for Gaza families, listed on http://gazafunds.com.

OX 1

Charity release

meadow [wip]

Mixes of original material that was recorded as part of the Dover Unlocked project. The strings and choirs were written by Anna Phoebe and Richard Bundy and recorded in historical and architectural spaces, using the natural reverbs, in and around Dover town. 

Dover Unlocked -- Chill Mix 1

Clay

Babystar

L'io lontano

first version

Don’t froget to breathe (whatever happens) © 2022 by Nadìr is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Don't Forget To Breathe (whatever happens)

https://precariouspropositions.wordpress.com/

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