This is my latest contribution to the Disquiet Junto. The assignment this week was to use the speech about how magic works from The Prestige as inspiration. So the track had to go from part A to part B and back to A. 

I felt like "B" needed to be some kind of trick, not just like verse/chorus/verse. I hope you can figure out what the trick is and, either way, enjoy.

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[disquiet0489] The Prestige

Jet Jaguar - The Greatest Trick Was Bowie's Moustache (Free download) [disquiet0489]

The work is in two movements - Fraying and Prolonged. The first presents a sonic object that gradually disintegrates. The second reframes this object and slows it down, so that the process of decay is frozen, and the object appears almost immortal. The work grew out of reflections on 1 Corinthians 15 and Jiang Zhi's Love Letters (2014). In Jiang Zhi's photographs, flowers are on fire, but are not harmed by the flames.

Alto Flute - Isobel Doughty
Oboe - Caitlin Heathcote
Clarinet in B flat 1 - Heather Ryall
Clarinet in B flat 2 - Julia Raga Pascual
Horn in F - Karen Starkman
Trumpet in B flat 1 - Catherine Pollit
Trumpet in B flat 2 - Thomas Thornton
Tenor trombone 1 - Samuel Dye
Tenor trombone 2 - Jake Jones
Harp - Teresa Raff
Piano - Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Violin 1 - Kanon Miyashita, Tilman Fleig, Yuriko Matsuda, Zora Orfgen
Violin 2 - Camille Saïd, Anastasia Egorova Wise, Zoe Hodi
Viola - Michaela Bartošová, Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel
Violoncello - Lucy Neil, Pieter-Jan De Smet
Double bass - Jess Martin, Cole Morrison
Conductor - James Hoyle

Recorded in October 2018.

Reframe (2017)

…like many surfaces of an attempt, for Schallfeld ensemble (2018)

impuls Minutenkonzerte
esc kunst medien labor Graz
May 26th 2018 

Schallfeld ensemble: 
Myriam García Fidalgo violoncello 
Matej Bunderla saxophone
Szilárd Benes bass clarinet 
Juan Pablo Trad Hasbun double bass 
Davide Gagliardi sound

Program notes:
This piece is about the distance between musical events and the difficulties posed in making connections between them. However, connections between them still somehow exist. They have to be searched for, invented, discovered. There is something disturbing in that process, but also calming. In the second part of the piece I use a text that I wrote, which gives the listeners new opportunities for constructing the flow of the music and deciphering its meaning. 

Text: 

What if we meet and I fall in love?
What if we meet and we don’t like each other?
What if we meet and we like each other 
so much, that we can not 
breathe? 

What if we meet and you start to hate me?
What if we meet and you are boring to me?
What if we meet and I seem old to you?
What if we meet and you like me more?
What if we meet and I like you more?
What if we meet and you fuck me 
so hard, that I don’t wanna
talk? 

What if we meet and I don’t like your smell?
What if we meet and you’re  not impressed 
with my body?
What if we meet and you say something wrong 
something stupid 
something cruel? 
What if we meet and you scare me?
What if we meet and we don’t understand 
each other?

What if we meet and it’s raining 
so heavily
that we have to stay inside and fuck 
all the time
and hug all the time
and talk all the time?

What if we meet and it’s sunny 
so beautiful
that we have to kiss on the grass 
all the time
hide from other people all the time
smile at each other 
all the time?

What if we meet and I hate the way you smoke 
the way you walk
the way you’re touching me?

What if we meet and you don’t like my thoughts, 
my worlds, my colors of the 
rainbow?
What if we meet and we realize that we 
are two different galaxies?
What if we meet and I feel that I’m not 
enough for you?

What if we meet and it gets awkward? 
What if we meet and I get anxious?
What if we meet and you faint?
What if we meet and …? 
                ………
                ……
                 ….
What if we never meet?

Sonja Mutić

...like many surfaces of an attempt, for Schallfeld Ensemble

Granular

MACARENA ROSMANICH
Dunst (2019)

for harp and double bass

Constantin Herzog, double bass
Mirjam Schröder, harp


Live Recording. 19.02.2020
Alte Feuerwache, Cologne, Germany.

DUNST (2019)for harp and double bass

Moon And Mist (Naviarhaiku 338)

Jaka Berger - prepared drums
Marina Džukljev - piano
Samo Šalamon - acoustic guitars

Music by Berger, Džukljev and Šalamon
Themes by Jaka Berger

Released at FMR records (UK) in 2019.

Physical copy avaliable:
marinakeys@gmail.com
or
www.fmr-records.com

released May 3, 2019

Recorded by Jure Gruden
Mixed and mastered by Jure Gruden and Jaka Berger
Recorded in Dejan Berden studio in 2018
Artwork by Brgs

https://marinadzukljev.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-dust-trio-hilarious-experts

Fresh Dust Trio - Coal Trains

Lyrics:

Light fire & a tight knapsack
Got no intention of turning back
Put a target on my price
And I’ll lowball
Think about me during your downfall

Know its hard for you to compute
I’m more than just something to look through
Step down, I dismiss you
Step down

Do you find my kind unholy?
Terrified of my body
Throw a stone, oh do put me
Back in place
Do you find me egocentric?
Making up my own metrics?
Throw a stone, oh do put me
Back in place

Call me deadly 
Choking envy
You’re deadbeat
Past mistakes

Heading over the hills with little left to say
Can’t hold me back from that far away
Hope no-one sees the lines on my face when I arrive
The lines that you gave

I was always a mere thing in your eyes
Just a means to make what you’d like
Bending over, I was down on my might
So yours had the floor
You took all the awards

Would you like me over easy?
Don’t put yourself out to please me
Throw a stone, oh do put me
Back in place
Tell me I take mine with bitters
A shadow in one of your pictures
Throw a stone, oh do put me
Back in place

Call me deadly
Choking envy
You’re deadbeat
Past mistakes
Call me deadly
Choking envy
You’re deadbeat
Past mistakes

Call Me
Call Me
Choking
Choking
Choking envy
Choking envy

Vocals and writing: Kate Brunotts and Lohrd Snohw.
Production: Kate Brunotts
Co-production: Lohrd Snohw

Call Me Deadly - Kate Brunotts & Lohrd Snohw

Blood From Tear Ducts

This dark ambient track comes from the beginning of Lockdown Jam 5, recorded on the 28th May 2020, again using the inspiring work of of @idin-samimi-mofakham, @martyna-kosecka and Michael Vallone (@taraexperiment), as well reintroducing the work of our dear friend @arshia-samsaminia.

Vessels

a rework from Mean Flow of a previous track by Marco Lucchi
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-music

gennaio 2021

Marco Lucchi & Mean Flow - bedroom music n°1

Composer, performer, sound artist from Serbia/Croatia, based in Berlin
www.sonjamutic.com