I found the time to liaten only now - very impressive, very effective dynamics and pacing

Enormous work; it deserves to take the time to listen to. Successful.

I am honored to present this most extraordinary work on 'Masterpieces of Experimental Music' 

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)

"It's too late now. It will always be too late. Fortunately!"
Albert Camus, The Fall 

The Fall was begun during a residency at STEIM in Amsterdam in December 2011 / January 2012. I made many hours of recordings in and around the city of Amsterdam, with the intention of creating this large scale work.

Elements of the work were incorporated into Residual bits of sunlight, by Andersson Dance in Stockholm. 

The first movement of this work, Too Late, Too Far, was premiered at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt in August 2014. 

The Fall (2014)

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)

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

The Meaning Of A Word Is At Least Another Word

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

Sad Music For Lonely People

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

The Fall (2014)

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