Superb soundspace!!! Perfect progression!

very nice, i love these acousmatic pieces.

@vortex-sound-dept: Thank you, glad you liked it!

Selected for 'Masterpieces of Experimental Music' - lovely stuff!!

Broadcast on Radio Centraal Antwerp-SEM/Jorisdelaet-July29 2016 14-16h

Must have been great to hear the 12 channel version. Though it is already very interesting with 2 channels.

I composed this piece for Chinabot 4th anniversary and performed it at Cafe OTO in London in July 2021. 
This piece was influenced by the recent lockdowns. During the lockdown I gradually felt that the walls of my room were getting thicker and closer to me. Thus I made a wall of overtones that is gradually getting louder and more prominent than the other sounds in the piece. Of course everything was
happening in my mind so other sounds on the electronic part represented what was happening in my mind, either as a conversation or just repetitive thoughts. The live qanun represented me sitting in my room surrounded by these walls trying to fight with these feelings and thoughts in my mind.

Every single sound in this piece is taken from my instrument (qanun).

Against Walls (solo qanun and fixed media)

Himlen Var was created with the support of EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) during three residency periods from 2013-2015. 

Himlen Var is based upon field-recordings made in the city of Stockholm and the outer Stockholm archipelago (particularly Blidö and Sandhamm), and the analogue synthesizers housed at Ems.

Thanks to:

The staff of Stockholm Public Library and Storkyrkan in Gamla Stan, for out of hours recording access;
Ems, for their support and kindness;
Audiorama, for premiering the work on 28th March 2015.

This is a stereo version of the work, which was written for a 12 channel system. 

Himlen Var (2015)

Promo edit from El Mahdy Jr new album, Ghost Tapes. Out on Discrepant (2015)

Release date: 14th August

More info go to www.discrepant.net 


El Mahdy Jr - Ghost Tapes LP (Promo Edit from LP)

Sam Kelder performing LOAM for viola and electronix

LOAM (2016)

arrival at the station

Ursa Major (2017)

Bernard Parmegiani’s 'De Natura Sonorum' is a monolithic twelve-movement work of electronic music, premiered in 1975. In this arrangement for sextet of the second movement, Accidents/Harmoniques, I have set myself the impossible task of distilling the infinite world of electronic sound into something reproducible by acoustic instruments. Such a process can hold a lens to the parent work to see it in a new way, be a means to discover new techniques and sounds in instrumental composition, and opens questions of reducibility: What are the essential features of a work? To what extent can we say that such a reproduction is ‘the same’ or of the same category of its source material?

Commissioned and premiered by Standing Wave, 18 January 2018, Vancouver Symphony New Music Festival, The Orpheum.

Recording by Brian Chan

A video demonstrating the process is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpaTl-4MOw

Accidents / Harmoniques (Bernard Parmegiani transcription) - Standing Wave

At a lake surrounded by forest, early in the morning I set up and recorded the birds just waking up and beginning to sing.  Had to have the recording gain set to Max for this recording, but I think it is nice how it pulls out the tiny reverb that comes from the birds songs and calls.    Patvinsuo National Park Finland.  Recorded on the 22nd of May 2018 at 3.21am.  MKH8020, Sound Devices MixPre, Marantz PMD661.  Recording 3093.

Quiet Lakeside Atmosphere - 22 May 18 - 3.21am - Patvinsuo

A track featuring a few layered field recordings - earth, water and air - foot steps, hydrophone recording and an ambient recording from a meadow not far from my house, with lots of birds and insects...
I added a super short snippet of piano, that I treated with the great iDensity iPad app - as well as with the Ableton warp engine...
Enjoy

Layered Elements In Reality

The Meaning Of A Word Is At Least Another Word

Unknow fish, recorded in the harbour of Haikou 海口, Taiwan.
23.12.2018, late afternoon.

181223 Unkown Fish - Haikou Harbour

Studio recording of Sad Music for Lonely People, Oct 2023. Matthias Engler and Gunnhildur Einarsdottir.

Sad Music For Lonely People

This is a sample from the album 'Cape York: Melaleuca Swamp', recorded on the the edge of a remote melaleuca (paperbark) swamp in Cape York, far northern Australia. The microphones were placed near the edge of the wetland, adjacent to dry tropical woodland and with an open lilypad-covered lagoon in the background.  Throughout the album there is a nice natural mix of early morning sounds from wetland and woodland species in this unique landscape.

https://wildambience.com/albums/cape-york-melaleuca-swamp/

Cape York: Melaleuca Swamp

Album Sample - 'Cape York: Melaleuca Swamp'

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra
commissioned by Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Wien Modern

Live Recording WDR Orchestra, 12 May 2019, Witten

Himlen Var (2015)

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