AMAZING, MY MIND IS COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY, DESTROYED, BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

Ben Patterson - Paper Piece
Nicolas Tourney (conductor) & Ensemble Auracle
Recorded at Bravos Foundry (Galicia, Spain) in September 2021.

Ben Patterson - Paper Piece

For amplified string quartet and live video
Duration ca. 9 min
Composition: Helga Arias
Live Video: Ross Karre
International Contemporary Ensemble:
Sonic Matter Festival, Zurich. 02.12.2021
Josh Modney Vn
Jennifer Curtis, Vn
Rosa San Martín Valdor, Vla
Michael Nicolas, Vc

This piece was entirely conceived and written during the pandemic, as a mean of enabling the creation of a work over long distance and without direct interaction between the participants.
Despite being a string quartet, the composition focuses on the individualities of each performer rather than seeking a common "string" sound.
To this end, the concept includes a process of "unfolding" the personal and musical characteristics of each one of the performers, told through psychological, musical and skill tests.
The audiovisual material that compound the final work is a result of assembling information about each performer and their musical persona.
The whole process took place through collaborative apps such as zoom. The participants never met until few hours before the premiere.

I See You

Everything went quiet

P = 3 : ?

perf. by London sinfonietta, cond. Jack Sheen. 2nd of December 2022, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank center, London (UK)

"To dream is to forget.." - Fernando Pessoa. The Book of Disquiet

"I’ve been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it…" Morton Feldman, 1982

Co-commissioned by and written for Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta and Remix Ensemble

Cyclically floating between different phases of density and intensity, minor and major, slowing or accelerating waves, the piece is woven from hypnotically repetitive patterns of 7 slightly different tempos which intertwine through 16 lines of the ensemble conceived as a complex human body with regular breathing, heart beating, eye movements, blood flow etc., all happening at the same time but not synchronised.

The title “Sleeping Patterns” refers to the brain wave oscillations through different sleep stages as well as to the Morton Feldman’s question “Why Patterns?”

Duration: 20’

Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, hn, tbn, acc, kbd, 2 vibr, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb

© Éditions Salabert/Universal Music Publishing Classical

"Sleeping patterns" for ensemble (2022), London sinfonietta (excerpt)

Décombres(2006) for contrabass clarinet and electronic. Alain Billard, clarinet

“Our order possesses the key which opens up all Masonic and Hermetic texts.” - Carl Kellner, chemist, industrialist, occultist. Founder of Ordo Templi Orientis - Order of the Temple of the East, a.k.a. O.T.O, later taken over by the Great Beast himself. Aleister Crowley.  That key was sex. Specifically, sexual magic rituals. It always comes down to sex in the end… 

Various apps recorded live in AUM on iPad. Free to download. Remix at will. PM me if you want stems, AUM project.

O.T.O.

Video: https://youtu.be/IydYOyJmGrk

Alessandro Perini - "N-S" (2017)
for cello, piano and tape

• Francesco Dillon, cello
• Emanuele Torquati, piano

From the concert "Distant Voices, Malmö"

May 5th, 2017 - Inter Arts Center, Malmö (Sweden)

Curated by Hertzbreakerz

In collaboration with Ars Nova, with the support of Konstnärsnämnden and Längmanska Kulturfonden

http://alessandroperini.com/?p=1193

"N-S" for cello, piano and tape (Francesco Dillon / Emanuele Torquati), 2017

Antanáklasi I [2019] | pour flûte et électronique

And/Or (2019) - 14 musicians and electronics - Turning Point Ensemble - live-recording

This work explores the micro-synchronicity within a pulsation to create timbral and musical situations that are:
organic and/or synthetic,
mechanical and/or lyrical,
symmetrical and/or asymmetrical,
integrated and/or separated,
on-the-beat and/or off-the-beat,



Performers: Turning Point Ensemble
Conductor: Owen Underhill
Electronics: Anthony Tan

And/Or (2019) - 14 musicians and electronics - Turning Point Ensemble

An interlude.

Enjoy!

Download: https://encym.bandcamp.com/album/in-fact-ill-be-staying-in-tonight

Décombres(2006) for contrabass clarinet and electronic. Alain Billard, clarinet

Raphaël Cendo

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