Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0Jk6etzw8

soprano saxophone: Julian Velasco
alto saxophone: Joe Connor
tenor saxophone: Chris Forbes
baritone saxophone: David Schreck

written: 2019-2020
recorded May 20th, 2021 at Evanston SPACE

minus (2020, for saxophone quartet and electronics)

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AccSYqNk8s0


This piece was written for and in collaboration with double bassist and friend Will Yager over a two year period. The work uses a series of cue like notational ‘guides’ (provided in real time via laptop) to instruct the performer through a series of physical, semi-improvisatory performative instructions. These moments rely heavily on the performer’s ability to listen, watch, and move between each moment with well-timed procession and musicality, while also allowing the performer a good amount of agency to explore sonic/performative possibilities from cell to cell. The electronics, both live and fixed, are all synthesized from sounds of wood (a majority of which came from Will’s own double bass). The title comes from the idea that if a plank of wood is said to be 'bowed’, it is said to have a warp along the length of its face.

a warp along the length of the face (2021 for double bass and electronics)

PRESQUE LOUP ...
il était et il n’était pas, 2022, 8 mn 22 
Pièce mixte pour voix, violon, bande électroacoustique
Au Maroc, les contes traditionnels commencent par «Kan ya ma kan»: « Il était et il n’était pas».
Cette pièce s’est construit comme un conte dont le récit a disparu. Restent la structure, les sensations, les lieux, les atmosphères de son déroulé. A la manière d’un enfant qui s’invente des histoires qui lui font gentiment peur, en écoutant les sons de son environnement proche; je me suis saisie de «sons anecdotiques», puisés dans mon quotidien et de «sons fabriqués» analogiquement et numériquement (principalement à partir d’enregistrements de voix, de fûte à coulisse, et d’éléments naturels), pour inventer un semblant de trame narrative, une ballade en forêt à la rencontre de «demi-loups», ni loups, ni chiens. L’idée de transmission orale, et d’apprentissage, que l’on retrouve à la fois dans les contes et les musiques traditionnelles, apparaît comme trame secondaire de cette pièce, et est ouvertement signifée par la présence d’une leçon de polonais qui se propagera dans le jeu du violon et de la voix.
Quand le violon était, la voix n’était pas... La violoniste et la chanteuse se font face, englobées par la bande électroacoustique: quand l’une apparaît, l’autre rapidement disparaît; quand l’une joue, l’autre, l’écoute; quand l’une joue, l’autre s’installe dans les interstices; quand l’une joue, l’autre lui répond; il faudra parvenir à la fin de la bande pour que les deux instruments soient un court instant réunis. Chacune nous livre une demi-histoire et nous donne à sentir un manque...
Violon: Virginie Prieto Voix: Rosalie Dubois / Voix additionnelle leçon de polonais: Sarah Ouazzani / Enregistrements dans le Tarn au coin du feu: Benjamin et Kasia, Rémi Luc / Ballade à Gemenos avec Catherine

Presque loup

Massage Acousmatique

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2022 élan vital recordings 

Manja Ristic / Toni Dimitrov - Dystopian 001

1. Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe
2. Toni Dimitrov - Against Civilization

🏴 'Dystopian 001' is split release between the sound artists Manja Ristić and Toni Dimitrov, and it is part of the new 'Dystopian series', showcasing a more abstract, darker, obscure and politically infused side of the sound of élan vital artist roster. Inspired by everyday life in the last several years living in realized dystopian visions and darkest predictions, the sound on this series will be the soundtrack for our daily dystopian reality. We are all aware that the future of our civilization is not bright, but that doesn't mean we are not living in an exciting epoch.

🏳️ Part one brings two longer pieces, presenting the dark side of the mystical long form experimentations by the Serbian violin and field recordings diva Manja Ristić and the latest field recordings experiments of the sound art naturalist Toni Dimitrov. Through this joint release the artists are trying to explore the potential for change of the society, resulting in a mature, expressive and complex album. 

Composed and arranged by Manja Ristić & Toni Dimitrov 
Mastering LaPlant Studio Belgrade
Cover drawings by Dorian Dimitrov
Design by Toni Dimitrov

Release date 27th March 2022
 https://elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-001

Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe (excerpt)

Mandolin with Ebow, slide, objects, feedback.

That Certain Slant Of Sunlight

Concept and composition by Jessica Sligter. 
Co-composition by Magda Mayas - prepared piano
Deborah Walker - cello
Sarah Saviet - violin
Recording by Jessica Sligter

Outtake soundtrack for Celler og Vev video-work by Mai Hofstad Gunnes (2022)

[headphones strongly recommended]

trombone, electronics, transducers, fx pedals, steel, glass, plywood. 

recorded live at CCRMA, may 9, 2016. 

Michelle Lou - HoneyDripper [2015-16]

A tribute to the legendary mr Parmerud. I have only used my totally unprocessed voice to recreate his electroacoustic piece "Les objets obscures", in the fine, old nordic tradition of passing on the music of one generation to another, by singing.

Singing Åke

Me Ta Podia

Lava

Hans Koch, Bb clarinet
Jonas Kocher, accordion
Gaudenz Badrutt, electronics

All tracks recorded live in 2019. 
Liner notes by John Corbett. Graphic design by Christoph Lanz.

EP on Wide Ear Records, November 2020. www.wideearrecords.ch

Presque loup

Sarah Ouazzani

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