Awesome, man! Very compelling work! 🤘🏾

Great piece, is it possible to see the video somewhere?

Extract from "KNVF" released on Erratum Musical on March 19th 2021. 

Following the release of her 2018 solo tape, Ggggg (Anticausal Systems), vocalist Charmaine Lee returns with her debut LP, KNVF, for Erratum Musical (Paris, France). In just two years, the album marks a considerable evolution from the austere concentration of Ggggg towards expansive sonic worlds. Inspired by the arcs of popular music, Charmaine freely and fearlessly navigates a wide range of aesthetics, digging beneath each surface to disclose a highly personal sense of musicality. Microphones of varying fidelities, contact mics placed on the throat, and amplified hair combs are used to simulate polyphony and a dialogue between the inner and outer body. With Charmaine’s unique vocal articulations atop a bed of feedback and extreme frequencies, form follows expression in an ever-evolving context built on the traditions of noise, vocal, and improvised music. KNVF is a powerful statement in modern vocal music and a thrilling new development in Charmaine‘s artistry that will reward those who listen for the journey.

Charmaine Lee (b. 1991) is a New York-based vocalist from Sydney, Australia. Her music is predominantly improvised, favoring a uniquely personal approach to vocal expression concerned with spontaneity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice. She has performed with leading improvisers Nate Wooley, id m theft able, C. Spencer Yeh, and Ikue Mori, and maintains ongoing collaborations with Conrad Tao, Victoria Shen, Zach Rowden, and Eric Wubbels. Charmaine has performed at ISSUE Project Room, the Kitchen, Roulette, The Poetry Project, and MoMA PS1, and participated in festivals including Resonant Bodies, Huddersfield Contemporary, and Ende Tymes. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions including The Moon Represents My Heart: Music, Memory and Belonging at the Museum of Chinese in America (2019). As a composer, Charmaine has been commissioned by the Wet Ink Ensemble (2018) and Spektral Quartet (2018). In 2019, she was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room and is currently a 2021 Van Lier Fellow at Roulette. Charmaine is a member of the Editorial Board of Sound American.

Artist Website: www.charmainelee.com 
Bandcamp: www.charmainelee.bandcamp.com 
Instagram: @charmainelee
Twitter: @charmainelee
CHARMAINE LEE - KNVF 
EM025 - 2021

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KNVF

Monstas' Marriage

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

Premiered on June 12th, 2021 at Le Centquatre-Paris as part of Ircam ManiFeste.

Joshua Hyde: alto saxophone
Zoë De Sousa: choreography and filmed dance 
Jon Yu, Dominic Constantine, and Mareike Engelhardt: video

This affirmation (2021) for alto saxophone, video, and electronics

for ensemble & electronics 

Paulo Amendoeira (percussion)Paola Aviles (harpe) Amélie Berson (flute) Phoebe Bognár (flute) Félix Lacquement (guitar) María Alejandra Jiménez (violin) Thierry Madiot (trombone) Mireia Pellisa Martín (saxophone) Carlo Sampaolesi (accordion) Adèle Viret (cello) + special thanks to Thomas Nicholson (Cage-clock-conducting)

commissioned by GMEA — Centre National de Création Musicale d'Albi-Tarn & part of the project 'experiences'

recording made at the Athanor, Albi, 06.08.2022
recording/ mixing by Benjamin Maumus, sound engineering at GMEA

for experiencers

cactus rockers / Los Cuñados (MTB＋IKARIYA)

https://audilesnow.bandcamp.com/album/sk-adnia

Bezwonny utwór o wymiarach 41x29 m

B2 - La Plage Des Riches

Ahhh the last effing track of the EP. This was a favorite making it cause the guitar like synth just sounds pretty.... I hope you enjoy it and the ep as a whole <3 Really wanted to add cute vocals but eh, It's fine the way it is. <3

𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖕𝖆𝖐𝖚 𝕰𝖞𝖊𝖘

SenSen - The Organist

For her own pleasure

via bandcamp

One Moon Many Moons Preludium

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.

This affirmation (2021) for alto saxophone, video, and electronics

Jon Yu

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