Funeral procession for my grandfather

Le souffle coupé, dans une ambiance sourde, j'ai salué pour la dernière fois le corps de mon grand-père. L'impact de la pelle contre la terre encore humide, ma main étourdie qui frappe le bois en guise de dernier salut, le son granuleux de la terre que l'on jette sur le cercueil pour le recouvrir ; ce sont les dernières images acoustiques et signes de sa présence.
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negative_soil (2020) - for 9 musicians and electronics

June 2021, Paris 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyhhsNXbRvU

Day Was Departing _ For Tenor, Electronics and Video

Petite pièce écrite pour l'atelier L2 de la classe de Jazz du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.
Hugo Van Rechem: Composition/Violon
Balthazar Naturel: Cor Anglais
Paco Andreo: Valve Trombone
PM Lapprand: Sax Soprano
Simon Corneille: Saxophone Alto & Baryton 
Yessaï Karapetian: Fender Rhodes
Benjamin Thiebault: Piano
Aurélien Holl: Guitare
Etienne Renard: Basse
Florent Berteau: Batterie

Paul Boulier: Mix

Enregistré en salle Maurice Fleuret au CNSMDP.


Ainsi il ouvrit sa fenêtre et le Périphérique lui dit ces mots

premiered by Oerknal Ensemble at Bilkent Concert Hall October 23, 2019. 

Gregory Charette, conductor
Susanne Peters, flute
Daniel Boeke, bass clarinet
Christian Smith, percussion
Sophie Patey, piano
Jellantsje de Vries, violin
René van Munster, cello

Mastering: Deniz Aslan

Palimpsest

For electric guitar and ensemble
Performed by musicians from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, DAI students from CNSMDP and Samuel Taylor (electric guitar)

I have a deep attraction to the ruggedness of forests and the intense vibrations they emit. Although this piece was not directly inspired by forests, nor is it programatic in other sense for that matter, I feel it brought the nature lover out in me. I think of my music a bit like an English garden, in which the ruggedness of nature is allowed to resonate, with the gardener guiding plants rather than forcing them into geometrical shapes and forms. While I do write very precise harmonies, timbres and textures, I like to allow the music to breath and flow in a way that reflects the natural textures, motions and layers of a forest.

Quakin' 'n' Groovin' (Ensemble Intercontemporain)

"Greetings from Astridplein" is my recent collaboration with composer Matthew Shlomowitz and guitarist Tom Pauwels. Made for BBC radio 3, this work took an interesting turn when the three of us felt it would be constructive for the piece if I musically produce and transform it into a ("musical") radio play. Adding field recordings, cutting and re-editing the material (with full respect to the score), envisioning the sound of each guitar channel and then mixing and mashing them up into a new "cinematic" creation were in a sense a chance for me to discover a new territory within the world of interpretation. 
* All guitars recordings by Tom Pauwels and myself

Deutsch-Pauwels-Shlomowitz: Greetings from Astridplein

Cellist: Mariel Roberts

"thoughts on imperceptibility" aims to let listeners "hear" frequencies that are below and above what is normally perceptible.

Composed for the 2020 Online Cortona Sessions

thoughts on imperceptibility

Recorded by the composer. Score included with bandcamp album download: https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-for-piano

Seven Just Intonation Miniatures for Piano

Recorded by Austin Wulliman
Version for 4 violins

"dx/dt" recontextualizes music notation as a position versus time graph. Utilizing a unique Pythagorean tuning system where 4 instruments cover a full 12 note series of perfect 5ths, this piece can be performed on 4 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, or 4 double basses. Only open strings and natural harmonics are used throughout the piece, through which delicate and pure sounds immerse the listener.

dx/dt

Sound artist Hagai Izenberg is using here an eclectic mixture of recordings starting with a weather report narration by David Lynch , moving into my recording of Steve Reich's "Electric Counterpoint" (taken from the album 33 RPM) and then followed by the sound files listed below. All together resulting a cinematic radio spectacle where "ready made" audio materials are being recontextualised as they detach from their origin.
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Materials used in order of appearance:
Weather Report by David Lynch (US)
33 RPM by Yaron Deutsch (Israel)
Los Angeles Police Department (live broadcast)
Do Not Disturb by Glands Of External Secretion (US)
Airports recordings mesh-up (YouTube)
Musique Grossière by PARSA (Iran)
In this lingering Twilight Sparkle by Mark Leckey (UK)
The Untitled (August 2020) by Ben Vida (US)
My Little Pony Halloween Spooky Moments (YouTube)
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Cover photo by Natasha Shakhnes
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Quakin' 'n' Groovin' (Ensemble Intercontemporain)

Samuel Taylor

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