commissioned & premiered by Loadbang

Trumpet: Andy Kozar
Trombone: William Lang
Bass Clarinet: Adrián Sandí 
Baritone Voice: Jeffrey  Gavett 
Date: October 1, 2021
Venue: Opera America (NYC)
Event: loadbang Presents: Premieres Vol. 17
Audio and Video by Stuart Breczinski

video: https://youtu.be/cfU1rI2Ge9w

ghosts & monsters (2021) | loadbang ensemble

for 7 musicians
commission of the Philharmonie of Paris and of ensemble Cairn
Live recording of the premiere (12/03/2022) by ensemble Cairn at the Philharmonie of Paris during the concert series "Tremplin de la Création"
flutes : Cédric Jullion
clarinet : Ayumi Mori
percussion : Arnaud Lassus
piano : Caroline Cren
violin : Constance Ronzatti
viola : Julie Michael
cello : Alexa Ciciretti
conductor : Guillaume Bourgogne

"Dès que la Joie se lève, tout s'élargit. Notre respiration se fait plus ample, notre corps, l'instant d'avant replié sur lui-même, n'occupant que sa place ou son coin, tout à coup se redresse et vibre de mobilité, nous voudrions sauter, bondir, courir, danser, car nous sommes plus vifs dans un plus vaste espace, et le défilé resserré de notre gorge devient le gué du cri, du chant ou du rire déployé. Rire ou pleurer, rire en pleurant, pleurer en riant, qu'importe !, c'est la réponse au même excès de ce qui vient. Notre visage s'ouvre et s'éclaire. Qu'est-ce qui vient ? L'à venir."
Jean-Louis Chrétien, La Joie Spacieuse, 2007

La Joie Spacieuse (03/2022)

New Year’s Day–
that I’m still on this journey
unbelievable

haiku by Kobayashi Issa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

eiffel blah

halF belieF [naviarhaiku469]

evolutionary tactics through splice and chance

More on this 580th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Evo Evol Evolve (The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves), at: Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve – Disquiet

More on the Disquiet Junto at: Disquiet Junto F.A.Q. – Disquiet

Subscribe to project announcements here: Disquiet Junto by Marc Weidenbaum (Disquiet.com)

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co 1: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0580-evo-evol-evolve/

Evolutionary Phrase Backup [disquiet0580]

6 May 2023 in the gallery Dezernat5
Susanne Wegener - Vocals
Sascha Sauerborn - Drums/Electronics
Herbert Weisrock - Baritone Saxophone
Thomas Sander - Guitar/Electronics

MERKWÜRDIGER TON

gale in the mountains –
watch how the fallen blossoms
carpet the water

A contemporary of Basho, Den Sutejo was the eldest daughter of a distinguished samurai family living in the mountainous area northwest of Kyoto. After her husband’s death, she became a nun and spent the final years of her life as a Zen devotee.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 15th November 2023

Haiku by: Den Sutejo [Translated by Makoto Ueda] https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html

Picture by Gariele Wright https://unsplash.com/photos/closeup-photo-of-pink-petaled-flower-uSkJ0rk9OBE

Fallen Blossom (NaviarHaiku514)

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Thoughtful In Late Nights

Last Days Before The Next Life

Recorded, mixed & mastered 13 Jan 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1280 of the 100 Day Project.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

Using a template that includes two Operator instruments, I created a simple arpeggiated  arrangement for both and then added a beat that changes incrementally. I also added some brief snippets of unrecognizable computer-generated voicemail from the local pharmacy using Ableton Simpler. I then automated parameters across the length of each track to highlight transformation.

I committed all this midi to audio and then stretched each track slightly and in different ways to let them go gradually out of sync to highlight separation. Having one arpeggiated Operator start a bit off-kilter anyway, this gets pretty extreme at the end. Here come the warm operators! 

Artwork: Penn Station, NYC 17 Dec 2010, by Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “The Radius Of The Shoulder Zone” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0628: Alchemical Brothers. The Assignment: Explore an aspect of the ancient occult science using music.

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

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#experimentalmusic #electronic #DisquietJunto #arpeggiated #transformation #alchemical #occultscience #SmilePuppy #disquet062 #separation

This track was originally released under the artist name "Smile Puppy."

The Radius Of The Shoulder Zone (disquiet0628)

WUNDERKAMMER

Descry

Ryan J Raffa is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound and image. They explore personal geographies, collective memory, and transformation through improvisation. Raffa is currently based in Taipei, Taiwan.

-> rjraffa.bandcamp.com
-> rjraffa.net
-> instagram.com/rjraffa/
-> twitter.com/rjraffa

Thoughtful In Late Nights

Ryan J Raffa

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