I heard this piece on the radio (France Musique - Electrain de nuit) and really liked it, glad you put it on SoundCloud.

This is beautiful. Really firing my imagination! Thanks

The texture of the children's voices blends so effectively...excellent.

I generally don't like music made entirely from field recordings - yours is _very_ different, though.

absolutely gorgeous rise and fall! so impressed with your work...

a lovely "period" to a phrase...wonderful

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)

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)

This work is dedicated to Annette Vande Gorne and Musique et Recherches.

A series of memories interrupt, overlap and flow into one another on a summer's day.

This piece is made exclusively from field-recordings taken in Brussels and Ohain in July 2011 and was begun at the studios of M&R and completed in the composer's own studio.

The creation of this piece was supported by the PRS Foundation and the Bliss Trust.

The Sun Warms The Memory (2011)

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 Sun Warms The Memory (2011)

Sam Salem

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