Name: Hermit Songs- X - A desire for hermitage by RadHaus Studio in Rebekkah Hilgraves: opera, jazz, contemporary and spoken samples
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: Live performance at Northern Illinois University, October 2009 with my dear friend Valerie Blair.

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Rebekkah Hilgraves was born in Washington, D.C. and now makes her home in Los Angeles. She began training seriously for a vocal career at an early age. Studies in Voice Performance at Northern Illinois University included art song and opera, early music performance practice, vocal pedagogy and stagecraft. She also began broadcasting at WNIU in DeKalb, continuing in broadcasting, commercial and industrial voice-over work in several major markets in the years since. Currently she hosts a weekly program on Stillstream.com called At Water’s Edge.

Her singing instructors have included Myron Myers in Chicago; Genia Las in Buffalo, New York; Edward Sayegh, a San Francisco-based instructor; Gerald Martin-Moore, Thomas Wolf, and Neal Goren in New York City.

Ms. Hilgraves also teaches private voice lessons, seminars and master classes through her teaching studio in Los Angeles and as a visiting resident at Northern Illinois University.


Voice-over and broadcasting

Member, SAG-AFTRA

Starting at WNIU in DeKalb, Illinois in 1986, Rebekkah has been broadcasting and producing, hosting classical, jazz and news programs in several markets across the U.S., including KQED in San Francisco, KING-FM in Seattle and WNED-FM in Buffalo.

In addition to her work in radio, Rebekkah has also done commercial and industrial voice-over work, including commercials for Thomasville Home Furnishings, Bojangle’s and several other major advertisers, and training and marketing videos for Digital Landing, Marketo and many other clients.

Currently she hosts a weekly program on Stillstream.com (you can hear archived broadcasts here).

Classical

Rebekkah actively performs in numerous operas, solo recitals and as a guest concert artist in venues throughout the United States. She gave the premiere performance of a new work, Rachel Rising (text by Rebekkah, and music by Rob Deemer) in October 2008 in Tennessee, and performed it again in October 2013 at Northern Illinois University as the culmination of a week long teaching residency.

In and around New York City, she has performed the roles of “Violetta” in Verdi’s La Traviata (Little Opera Company of New Jersey, 2006), “Rachel” in the world premiere of The Eglantine by Sam Belich (New York City, 2005), “Elisabetta” in Verdi’s Don Carlo (Opera Drammatica, 2004), “Gerhilde” in Wagner’s Die Walküre (The Valkyrie Project, 2005 and Opera Drammatica, 2004), the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica (Chelsea Opera, 2004 and American Singers Opera Project, 2003), and has performed the soprano solo in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass (Ars Musica Orchestra and Chorale, 2002). In 2003, she also received “Honorable Mention” by the Amici Vocal Competition in Connecticut.

Elsewhere around the U.S., she has appeared as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic (2007), Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra (1998, 1999, 2000) and with Orchestra Seattle/Seattle Chamber Singers (1999, 2000), as well as being a founding member of the women’s vocal ensemble, The Sisters (1998-2000). She presents regular solo recitals in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Buffalo, and New York City.

Ms. Hilgraves’ current repertoire covers a broad range of languages and styles, and includes “Lady Macbeth” in Verdi’s Macbeth, “Leonore” in Beethoven’s Fidelio, “Donna Elvira” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the title role in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Richard Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, as well as song repertoire in French, German, Italian, English, Latin, and Czech. She is also preparing the mélodies by French composer Charles Bordes (1863-1909) for recording, having presented many in their American premieres.

The soprano has been named “Best Actress in a Musical” by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle for the leading role in an original work with the Lamplighters, itself an award-winning light opera company in San Francisco. Ms. Hilgraves has starred in operas and light operas, including in L’Étoile by Chabrier (Princess Laoula) with Pocket Opera (San Francisco); the title role in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan (Lamplighters); the Second Prioress (Madame Lidoine) in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites; “Helen” in Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters by Ned Rorem.

Critics have acclaimed Ms. Hilgraves with “…an opulently effulgent tone…” (John Hammell, Mozart to Motorhead, 2005), “…a gorgeous soprano who can act.” (San Francisco Review, 1996), “…this vivacious soprano…” (John Bell Young, distinguished pianist and critic, Opera News, American Record Guide, 1999) and “…ample and ringing. Lovely! … in your ecstatic transports the grasp of the scholar is transmuted into the lyric flair—the richly nuanced aperçus–of the artist.” (Adrian Corleonis, Fanfare Magazine, Sounds of Seattle, 1999).

Jazz

Ms. Hilgraves has appeared as a jazz vocalist in venues around North America. Her jazz career is nearly as long-lived as her classical career. Under the careful instruction of the great jazz musicians Scotty Wright (San Francisco) and Robert Murphy (North Carolina), and studying the work of jazz greats Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and others, she successfully moves from classical singing to jazz and back again at will.

She can be heard on a recording by Los Caribes, a Buffalo-based Latin jazz group headed by Michael Colquhoun. Michael’s review of Rebekkah’s work was: “…you are currently listed as Coro under percussion – that’s gonna change to a listing under Brass considering Your VOICE girl! I can hear you from here!!”

Rebekkah Hilgraves: opera, jazz, contemporary and spoken samples

5)	Euterpe’s Lament (Hila Plitmann & Sangeeta Kaur, sopranos / Virginie d’Avezac de Castéra, viola / Éru Matsumoto, cello / Danaë  Xanthe Vlasse, piano & lyra) 6:44 

LINER NOTES:

Euterpe was the ancient Greek muse of music. She and her eight sisters were daughters of the great god Zeus; each muse was responsible for safeguarding major cultural elements, including history and all the arts.

This piece was written during the first global pandemic of this century, which brought about an unprecedented worldwide shutdown that included concert halls, museums, and cultural venues; the lyrics to this music depict the suffering of Euterpe and her sisters, as they face the isolation of a desolate artistic landscape, while expressing faith in a fulfilling future.

Euterpe’s Lament (Lyrics by Danaë Xanthe Vlasse, inspired by Cécilia Tsan)

My distance from you, cruel as it is,
it tells of my love, 
my love for you!
Confined, I am nonetheless not alone! 
Your voice, virtual or real, soothes my aching soul!

My soul!
Unprecedented and unbearable! 
The universe speaks and we must go deep into our souls 
to discover the truth,
Truth essential in our lives!

And after the storm goes away, away,
together we will build the genuine beauty,
beauty of human nature.


Full Track Info and Liner Notes Here: https://www.danaevlasse.com/digital-booklet.html

Euterpe's Lament (Plitman/Kaur, sops, Virginie d’Avezac, viola, Éru Matsumoto, cello, D. Vlasse, pno

Lady Macbeth - Sleepwalking scene (Act V, Scene 1), 2nd reading

Rebekkah MsEscrow

Recorded in John's studio using our binaural mic. Listen in headphones to get the full effect.

Lush Life (with John Capo, piano)

Test mix. Kevin Newell - vocals. Sally Sparks, guitars, Haken Continuum, Piano, Synthesizers, bass, percussion. More tweaks to be done. 

The song was inspired by the a news story I read about a search for WWII British Spitfire fighters that are believed to have been shipped in crates to Burma, then buried by British troops. David Cundall has spent his life's fortune searching for these planes. If they found them, they would be like new, preserved in their oil rag soaked crates in pieces. It got me thinking about how the stories of the past fade and why we cling to them, yet forget the lessons of the past.

Spitfires in Burma

Live performance at Northern Illinois University, October 2009 with my dear friend Valerie Blair.

Hermit Songs- X - A desire for hermitage

«፨» Art Imagination - Aya & Rain Jungle (SACRAL MEDITATION)«፨»
«፨» Deya Dova - Grandmother Tree & The Feathered Serpent «፨»
«፨» Andrew Pekler - Synthetic Night «፨»
«፨» Arkadiusz Reikowski - The Woods (feat. Marc Bonilla) «፨»
«፨» Dandara - Dimension «፨»
«፨» Discoshaman - Temple OfThe Way Of Light «፨»
«፨» Lulacruza - Arpa Iris «፨»
«፨» Un Rêve - The Rain Inside «፨»
«፨» Sleepy Koala - Dans la main de Chronos «፨»
«፨» SiJ & Sergey Gabbasov - Tengri «፨»
«፨» Raiz Profunda - Pista 2 «፨»
«፨» Lido Pimienta - Humano (El Búho Humano En La Selva Edit) «፨»
«፨» JAJA - Chan Chara «፨»
«፨» Ohxalá (feat. Spike) - Urubu Violeta «፨»
«፨» Ibu Selva - El espiritu de la Colmena «፨»
«፨» Yazi - Sketch 4 «፨»
«፨» Jai Kushॐ - The Zen Approach «፨»
«፨» Sunday Morning - absolute «፨»
«፨» The Orb - The 10 Sultans Of Rudyard (Moo Moo Mix) «፨»
«፨» Exempt & Thomas Skrobek - Acid Rain Feat Sanya Manzoor (Winter Winds Vol.1) «፨»
«፨» Barnaby Carter - Its My Constant «፨»
«፨» NILLO - Montanha (Sainte Vies Perspective) «፨»
«፨» Arutani - Luces Del Recuerdo «፨»
«፨» Chancha Via Circuito - Sueño En Paraguay (Psilosamples Remix) «፨»
«፨» document1 - 3rd trip «፨»
«፨» *mαḋεṃαṉ - .u.r.me. «፨»

No djin just playin.

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Recording on the road, at  37°09'01.7"S  56°53'06.9"W
Used what I have with me: the Requinto on the photo (taken on recording location) an instrument I bought in Tegucigalpa  22 years ago that proved to be a nice travel companion and perhaps the worst instrument I own. A real bastard when it comes for tuning and playing comfort. 

8 tracks of it recorded with an AKG 451, then I converted one melody track to midi and triggered a lead synth on z3TA-2.
Added some upright bass notes from my vault, notes I recorded 13000 km away from here long time ago, or  in a different timeline....

A major, 168bpm in 7/4 time.

Created for Disquiet Junto Project 0321: Let’s Active , 24th an d25th February 2018.


More on this 321st weekly Disquiet Junto project (Let’s Active: Make a short piece of music that decreases the mind’s tendency to wander, based on research by Dr. Liila Taruffi, PhD, and her colleagues) at:

https://disquiet.com/0321

More on Taruffi, music, and mind-wandering at:
http://liilataruffi.com

More on the Disquiet Junto at:
https://disquiet.com/junto

Would You Focus Please? (disquiet0321)

Hello.
Hybrid Eb minor/major nine minutes meditational soundscape.
Drone performed on my Harmonium from New Delhi, using all 3 possible stops and a "drone".(4 tracks)
Live Hang improvisation recorded with two microphones in Paris.
Upright bass (bowed ) softly a root note all along.

Track dedicated to Ganesh, inspired on this mantra:
"Om Gam Ganapataye namaha"

An old clock guests chiming at 3'30.
The bell (1 minute marks) is from Toledo, Spain, circa 1972.

Cheers

dd


More on this 323rd weekly Disquiet Junto project (Music for Meditation: Record a piece of music suited to meditation) at:
https://disquiet.com/0323
Subscribe to project announcements here:
http://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha (disquiet0323)

This track is a piece for the disquiet junto brief here :

https://disquiet.com/2018/03/08/disquiet-junto-project-0323-music-for-meditation/

"Step 1: Consider music appropriate for meditation. Think of the sounds, the tones, the forms that might suit such a thing.

Step 2: Record a short piece of music for meditation. Make your track a set number of minutes (that is, a length divisible by 60 seconds), preferably between 7 minutes and 20 minutes. Whatever length you choose, insert a bell/chime sound precisely one minute after the track begins and precisely one minute before the track comes to an end."

I wanted to explore an orchestral but highly textured / cinematic dream like response. Kit used :

Custom sampled instrument of vocals by Kelly Snook
Spitfire Audio Olafur Arnalds Chamber Evolutions
Spitfire Audio Albion One ( Winds and Brass )
Spitfire Labs Hand Bells
Hollow Sun Moog Taurus
TC VSS3 Reverb
Ableton effects
VEQ4
J37 Tape Saturation

disquiet0323 - music for meditation

Rear Admiral George H. Miller, USN (Ret.). Interview #2, 29 January 1971, Washington, D.C. Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr.

1971 Interview with Rear Admiral George H. Miller, USN (Ret.)About the Torpedoed USS Houston (CL-81)

Background/Foreground

Numinous day, morning winter light raising a warm glow from old, whitewashed bricks, the neighborhood nothing special, the people, only human, a man smoking a cigarette in a parking lot, a bird waiting to sing, a silence after heartbreak. Tell me, someone, how is it possible to kill in a world so beautiful? Tell me how it is possible to secure silence against gunshots and cries of pain. But also, don't secure the silence, but fill it: with your voices, hopes, joys, griefs, anguish and all: so it doesn't hurt my ears: so we wind good sounds into a fabric to outargue death. Good morning, friends.

--<a href="http://www.shymala.com" target="_blank">Shymala Dason</a>

Numinous Day

This started with a field recording of the Slack alert signal recorded in a room with a very low pitched air handler.  Turned it into a Patterning drum set, and mangled it with the Borderlands granular synth.

Fun to do and fun to post.

Slacker

Get It - Live at White Horse Feb 19, 2020

A brief clip from "La Bamba" from Los Caribes. Rebekkah did all the female backing vocals on this track.

La Bamba (demo 1)

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