Mixed Friends 49

Recorded by Lydian Quartet

I – NODE: Tuning Knot  00:00-03:22
II – Recently Found Fragments: Chant Loop  03:28-11:38
III – Striding Rituals: Nocturnal Gatherings for Mass Wooing  11:44-17:30
III.5 or 5.IV – Optional habits  17:43-18:40
IV – CODEX: I know I know this (…almost remembering…)  18:44-25:04
V – Turn the Corner: Post-Rapture Celebration  25:08-28:04
VI - NODE: Ex nihilo…In nihil [-for Mary Ruth-]  28:05-35:30

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past is dedicated to the Lydian String Quartet and was composed as part of their Composition Commission Award, which was made possible by the generosity and vision of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn. It was composed in San Francisco and Cambridge and is 35 minutes long.

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past (2013-14/rev. 2017) for string quartet

Giorgio Colombo Taccani CONTRORA  for piano (2014)
dedicated to: Francesco Prode
EDIZIONI SUVINI ZERBONI - MILANO
Francesco Prode,  piano
More at www.colombotaccani.it/controra.html

"Controra" for piano (2014)

1983 
4.3.3.3 – 3.4.3.1 hp, celeste, 3 perc. Strings
This early work, composed when a student at the Royal College of Music, is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s famous Jabberwocky from ‘Through the Looking Glass’. 
It is suitable for youth orchestras and presents appropriate challenges to students of c. Grade 7 and 8 standards.
This recording is of the premiere performance given by the Royal College of Music Sinfonia conducted by Christopher Adey.

Jabberwocky (1983)

Transcription pour piano à 4 mains par Otto Singer junior.
Live du 4 mars 2018
Piano Bechstein

Rêveries, Passions

boom bong bong bong

This is a lost and found Track from Diversity Disappears Sessions, last Year. 
Was a challenge to play saxophone in an Submarine - especially for a bloody Beginner ;-)

Diversity Disappears - Remixes

Mariana Trench Session (Diversity Disappears outtake)

Summer song for harpsichord - June 24, 2018
I hope you will have as much fun listening as I played it!

Summer song for harpsichord

Wilde Blume

Naviar Quartet [disquiet0338]

I laid out the four tracks in sequence, balanced and mixed them and created a source track. This was then subjected to my usual indignities with The Mangle and Audiobulb’s ambient software, mixed and decorated with its own entrails.

Thanks to the Naviar family for providing such wonderful tracks to work with.

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In collaboration with Naviar Haiku, make a four-person band from the provided four live solo recordings.

Step 1: First, major thanks to Neil Stringfellow (aka Audio Obscura) for proposing this collaboration between the Disquiet Junto and the Naviar Haiku series, and for the support of Naviar’s Marco Sebastiano Alessi. We’ll be making music based on segments of recordings by four musicians from the May 25, 2018, Naviar Haiku Fest. Get the four recordings here from the Zip file:

http://bit.ly/juntonaviar

Step 2: Having downloaded the four tracks (by Ikjoyce, Audio Obscura, Subsepai, and sevenism), listen to them. Each is a single minute from longer solo performances. Imagine how they might work together.

Step 3: Create a new track employing material from all four (and no other external sound sources, though processing is OK) that suggests the existence of a quartet performing live.


More on this 337th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0338: Imaginary Quartet / In collaboration with Naviar Haiku, make a four-person band from the provided four live solo recordings.) at:

https://disquiet.com/0338/ 

Major thanks to Neil Stringfellow (aka Audio Obscura) for proposing this collaboration between the Disquiet Junto and the Naviar Haiku series, and for the support of Naviar’s Marco Sebastiano Alessi. The audio employed as raw material in this project is from live recordings by Ikjoyce, Audio Obscura, Subsepai, and sevenism. More on the Naviar Haiku at:

http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku/


Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Naviar Quartet [disquiet0338]

Homework - 2018 - 22

[This music benefits from a full-sized loudspeaker.  Headphones will typically lack the requisite low-frequency response.] 

Artists interested in formal methods tend to get advice of two quite opposite sorts.  Purists urge presenting the structure objectively, so not gilding the lily.  Hedonists see structure as merely a spur to creativity, and thus, in the final product, best hidden (if not simply erased or discarded) by subjective, emotive elaborations.

Curiously, purity itself sometimes distracts from that kept pure.  Perception can get dominated by very general notions of rigidity, regularity, (near) repetition, and in the case of music, fatigue to the ear.  

The title advertises a middle course.   The structural idea involves Egyptian fraction decomposition of unity: ways to segment a monochord into distinct lengths to that each one vibrates as a harmonic of the unstopped string.   Using 6 segments, there exist 2320 ways to do this (ignoring the ordering of the segments).  Some of these involve segments so short that they vibrate so high that the tones will span an interval wider than the range of human hearing.  This piece enumerates the musically useful quarter of the catalog.  The sets of tones get applied both melodically and for building the timbres that project the melodies.  

 Sorted in one obvious way, the catalog has a particular natural large-scale harmonic logic.

The catalog gets embellished with rubato - changes in attack, decay, tempo, rate of tempo change and the use of repetition.   These non- structural details actually seem to make easier concentrating on the subtle particulars of the emergent microtonal harmonic progressions and the voice leading.  Despite zero connection to traditional music theory here, the C major prelude in the WTC might seem a distant ancestor.

Not Quite Gilded Lily On A Not Quite Barren Trellis (electronic)

25Jun18

Heavily influenced by the the excellent dark ambient soundscapes created by Dimensional (https://soundcloud.com/dimensionalsound)

:D

Boson Spin - Toward the Elder Sign

So inspired by Georg Boehme's  gorgeous baritone sax sound, as he brings to life our original, Next Stop to Paradise. Georg has such a deep understanding of jazz, and brings so much of it into Next Stop.  Georg leads a serious jazz ensemble in Cologne, Germany - writing, arranging, playing, soloing, and probably some great parties too!  Just ask him.  Wish he were hanging around in New Canaan, CT and NYC.   Follow his wonderful music here - https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

Thanks as always for your generous time listening, for your comments and for your shares.  I took the photo in East Hampton, NY

Next Stop Paradise - with Georg Boehme / baritone saxophone

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

Mixed Friends 49

Robert Knote