"This work is comprised of single tones in flexible time brackets for four saxophones or multiples thereof. The pitches do not sound as written. The intonation should be unique to each player, thus a unison should be “a unison.of differences.” Sounds may be long or short. When they have duration, the loudness should be soft. Very short sounds are free as to loudness, even sfz if wished or ppp.”

Different approach where I dramatically 'mistuned' the saxophones in advance.

John Cage Four5 (02.23)

Written for George W Welch, 1987 - (following Charing X and Green Park on the old Jubilee Line). Kate Smith, violin; Michael Newman, viola; Hugh McDowell, cello; James Hill, tuba; Jonathan Parry, piano; Simon Allen, vibraphone; Ian Gardiner, marimba; Mark Thomson, percussion. Recorded by Radio 3 at Maida Vale 1, 1990

Bond St. (1987)

for Chamber Orchestra
Ensemble Zeitfluss
Antanina Kalechyts, conductor

Kontrapunk (2022)

Piano Sketch 1: Prelude

Performed by: 
Viola - Stephen Upshaw, Cello - Louise McMonagle, Double Bass - Marianne Schofield, Electric guitars - Pétur Jonasson and Jack Ross

Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

@KingsPlace

Link to video of performance: https://youtu.be/6aAdKge_jTY

Atom Cry performed by the Riot Ensemble (2023)

for Paetzold contrabass recorder and accordion

Commissioned by Tabea Debus and Samuele Telari, with funding from Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

Recording from 2022 - Sam Stadlen (Stadlen Productions)

Tabea Debus (contrabass recorder)
Samuele Telari (accordion)

As part of 'Sounds of Now: Rotations' at Music in the Round, Sheffield
Film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpV8ClWuDAo

slowly, turning (2022)

May song (2022)
six voices and prerecorded audio
Performed by Exaudi, at Exposure 2023, Milton Court, 22 May 23

Cressida Sharp, sop.
Jessica Gillingwater, mez-sop.
Tom Williams, counterten.
David de Winter, ten.
Michael Hickman, bari.
Simon Whiteley, bass

James Weeks, cond.

Text by Goethe (1771), trans. Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon (in Jeschke, Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women, Materials, 2018 http://material-s.blogspot.com/2020/10/lisa-jeschke-anthology-of-poems-by.html.)

How beautiful shines 
To me, the nature! 
How the sun glows! 
How the mead smiles!

Blossoms penetrate 
From each branch 
And a thousand voices 
Out of the shrubbery

And joy, and joy 
From each breast. 
O earth, o sun,
O joy o lust!

O love, o love!
As golden, as beautiful 
As the morning clouds 
On those heights

You bless gloriously 
The fresh field
The blossoms’ steam 
The bountiful world.

O girl, girl
How I love you! 
Your eyes gaze! 
How you love me!

This is the way the lark loves 
Song and air
And morning flowers
The smell of heaven

How much I love you, 
My blood warmed
By you, for me, a youth, 
And joy and courage

For new songs
And dances
May you be happy eternally 
As long as you love me.

Prerecorded sounds include two field recordings of a wind turbine in Bernau bei Berlin, recorded by Peter Cusack, 2021.

Art: Unknown photographer, WT-Energiesystems Albertshof wind turbines, Bernau bei Berlin, c. 2020

Thanks to James Weeks and Exaudi, and to Paolo Carlotto and Nick Moroz for audio engineering assistance.

May song

Saxophone Concerto
for saxophone and orchestra

Commissioned by Arte no Tempo and Aveiro City Council

Luís Salomé . saxophone
Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras
conducted by Nuno Coelho

Live recording @ Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro, PT)

+ info: 
https://joaocarlospinto.com/

Saxophone Concerto (2021) - for saxophone & orchestra

The UK has been engulfed in a cladding crisis, and my home is one of the buildings affected. 

Throughout 2023 and early 2024, the cladding/insulation on my flat has been replaced. I have recorded the sounds of the drills, lifts, builders etc. and combined them with the mundane sounds of my building (e.g. alarms, extractor fans, the opening/closing of blinds).

Clad In Fire-Resistant Armour

View on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD0Urpdcmg&t=0s

Performed live at the Soundhub Showcase at LSO St Luke's, Saturday 9 February 2019.

Find out more about LSO Soundhub: https://lso.co.uk/lso-discovery/the-next-generation/lso-soundhub.html

Conductor: Darren Bloom
Recorder: Tabea Debus
Flute: Pasha Mansurov
Bb/ bass clarinet: Scott Lygate
Trombone: Becky Smith
Cello: Colin Alexander
Viola: Anna Bastow
Violin: Clare Duckworth
Percussionists: Neil Percy, Tom Edwards

Aesop

Composer from London.

A lot of my newer pieces are not on soundcloud, so please check my website for most recent recordings.

Photo by Michael Carlo 2023

Aesop

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