Thalweg

SS B 15.6

Connecting The Dots

Gone Trick

⁂©12-8-2023/Lyrics & Sung by Lady ElectroTrek 
*All Rights Reserved

Karma's A Sweet Bitch

Reversed Fate

All music written, recorded and performed by Ryan J Raffa in Taipei, Taiwan during late 2021 on moog matriarch, modular, fender rhodes, snare drums, cymbals, percussion, op1, tape machines, and field recorders.

Every sound was captured for this specific occasion

Mastering by Taylor Deupree
Vinyl cut by Barry "Baza" Grint at Alchemy
Layout by Drew Heffron
Photographs by Ryan J Raffa

4 e and a is about the infinite spaces between. As a classically trained percussionist, Raffa sat in front of a metronome for the majority of their life. And in their mind, they would play with the spaces between those clicks. In especially challenging times, Ryan would attempt to expand and stretch those spaces into forever. Just existing in the between. This record is about these moments (and places) when we are living in those infinite spaces.

That time of intense musical focus was also Ryan's first introduction to an analog synthesizer. As a teenager, their drum teacher was Herb Flower, an incredible human with light beams of creative energy pouring out of him and his musical family at all times. A parent of another student of Mr. Flower’s was an electrical engineer who had recently been laid off during large cutbacks at Carrier, one of the major employers at that time in Syracuse where Raffa grew up. This parent, with their newly acquired free time, hand-built a drum machine, housed in a large wooden cabinet with 8 or so unmarked knobs, and they gave this synthesizer to Mr. Flower. The sound from that machine was glorious. And Mr. Flower, their drum teacher, would turn a few knobs, make a pattern and have me play along with it during rehearsal. These moments were such a gift, and I know those moments are still reverberating today. Raffa thinks about that time of experimentation, of exploration, of shared love of sound and music as a place that they can go to, a place we can all go to, whenever we choose.

4 e and a

Thoughtful In Late Nights

Solo Piano - Chris Bright

winter - 12:10:23, 6.37 PM

Who Are They?

pict free wallpaper

getting to know the place when Karl arrives

2023-12-17

Farm Hvarf

starlings, sparrows (2022)
for amplified clarinet, cello and prepared piano with synthesizer
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Trio Catch
BOGLÁRKA PECZE Klarinette
EVA BOESCH Violoncello
SUN-YOUNG NAM Klavier/Synthesizer
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WP: 7.5.2022, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik; Trio Catch
Duration: ca. 16′ - (some short excerpts here on soundcloud with kind permission by Trio Catch)

starlings, sparrows (2022) - Excerpts - Trio Catch

Alaska

Sarah Nemtsov - composer (*1980) - Germany, Berlin

starlings, sparrows (2022) - Excerpts - Trio Catch

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