for vocal sextet and toy noisemakers
performed by Ekmeles
recorded by David Adamcyk at Scholes Street Studio, New York
composed, mixed and mastered by Katherine Balch

forgetting

Live improvisation on Jan. 6, 2021 @ Ircam, Salle Stravinsky

Yi Zhou 周易, cello
Jon Yu, electronics

Improvisation with Yi Zhou 周易 (Jan. 6, 2021) for cello and electronics

BRIGHTER SUNS (2022) - for solo electric guitar and electronics

*IMPORTANT: you can listen to an improved version of this work following this link: juliozuniga.info/works/brighter_suns.html *


Nico Couck, electric guitar (Nadar Ensemble)
Live recording, May 21, 2022

BRIGHTER SUNS

I take the sandwich of you

Kyrska

New album released.

「森と海」
Bandcamp page
https://satoshisugiyama.bandcamp.com/album/--3

----- caution ------
 I'm in the process of making the CD. I will send it to you by surface mail  as soon as it’s ready.


以下、アルバムについて。


「森と海がまじわるところ」

鬱蒼とした森の記憶を辿るように、レコーダーを手にし土と枯れ葉の小道を登る。
まず、その小高い森の中心と思われる場所で一度目の録音。
そして同じ場所でレコーダーのマイクを空に向け二度目の録音。
遠くに僅かに波音が聴こえた。

その音に誘われて、数日後、友人たちと森を抜け海に降り立つ。
岩場の潮溜りにハイドロフォンを落とす。
マイクを通して海中の音を聴くのはそれが初めてで、海の中から外の世界を見ているような気持ちになった。
小さな生き物たちの気配、波音と森のざわめきと
すべてがまじわるところに僕はいた。


※この録音を聴き返すうちに、10年前に三木葉苗が書いた「美の基準についての覚え書き」を思い出し読み返す。合わせて読んでももらえるといいなと思いこれを付属することにしました。

録音と編集　杉山聡
絵　三木咲良
言葉　三木葉苗

森と海 -Excerpts-

recorded live at benaize on tour w/ nmt & cfolle

Taekwondo Vanlife (Benaize)

composed by Martin Arnold (2003)
played by:
Martin Arnold - melodica
Eric Chenaux - voice, guitar
Ryan Driver - voice, synthesizer
Doug Tielli - voice, trombone
and Arraymusic

Tam Lin

soprano + backing
(2016/7)

words by Caitlin Doherty

sung by Juliet Fraser
live recording (premiere)
9 Feb, St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield
recorded by Sam Gillies

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what light fear blanches 
the alarm
the photographic
hours delay waking until 
sleep again

concede it to a grey- 
not-love, the morning calls 
with no promise 
to refresh

& weighting is beyond 
this hour, each word 
a serious intent, an 
object pain

there are only so many 
Messages of Love
I can send to you
while we are both awake 
the ocean becomes dark 
we trade symbols of hearts 
freely and in colour

— Caitlin Doherty

While we are both

This piece plays with the listener’s sonic expectations of what is familiar by fusing sounds, which a person can easily recognize, with new previously unheard sounds generated by algorithmic processing. By using various sounds and sonic artifacts that are common to the human experience, the work directs the listener to draw upon his inner visual associations with specific sounds and paint a mental soundscape of the acoustic experience. The introduction of other, unfamiliar processed sounds into the composition, invites the listener to break away from this familiar associative chain of acoustic phenomena and push the boundaries of his perception, in the process forming new sonic combinations and auditory experiences.
The musical piece was fully recorded and compiled in the Tonshoom Studio in April 2020. Some sounds were recorded using musical instruments, sound props, and speech; others were synthesized with SuperCollider. The final track was mixed down in Pro Tools and WFSCollider.

03. hybrid by Ivan Yerofeyev

Her Majesty the Fool (2020)
by Oren Boneh
Fanny Vicens, XAMP mictrotonal accordion and electronics

For the video: https://youtu.be/hagaxRg15FE

Composed for Fanny Vicens for premiere at Festival Manifeste IRCAM 2020
Special thanks to Grégoire Lorieux, Thierry De Mey, and the IRCAM Pedagogical Team.
Filmed at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Video production: Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti

Her Majesty the Fool (2020) - for accordion and electronics

Jon Yu is a Taiwanese-American composer whose music explores notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His recent works focus on sculptural elements in electroacoustic instrumental music.

His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists including Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, loadbang, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Eco Ensemble, Earplay, AsianArt Ensemble, haegeum player Soo Yeon Lyuh, and percussionist Oded Geizhals. His music has been presented at June in Buffalo, Dian Red Kechil, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Pacific Rim Music Festival, Festival Musica, Festival Barcelona Modern, impuls Festival, outHEAR New Music Week, and IRCAM ManiFeste. He was the recipient of the 2017 Mivos/Kanter Prize for his string quartet O reche modo, and was the laureate of the Prix Alain Baltes for his vocal sextet PEK TI. From 2018-19, he was in residence in Paris at Cité internationale des arts as a fellow of the George Ladd Prix de Paris. He returned to Paris in 2020-21 to study in the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM under Thierry De Mey. He was awarded with a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024. 

Jon completed his PhD in Music Composition at UC Berkeley, where he studied with Franck Bedrossian, Ken Ueno, and Edmund Campion. He holds a Master’s degree from San Francisco State University, where he studied with Benjamin Sabey. He has also studied privately with Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Rebecca Saunders, and Pierluigi Billone. He currently teaches music theory, composition, orchestration, and musicianship as a lecturer at San José State University and UC Berkeley.

Improvisation with Yi Zhou 周易 (Jan. 6, 2021) for cello and electronics

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