Bernhard Plagg - trumpet 1
Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet 2
Lionel Speciale - horn
Vladimir Vereś - trombone
Fabian Neckermann - tuba

Sound recording in the studio of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, 2023

The composition was released in June 2025 on the CD BRASS TACKS 3 by Parma Recordings
https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6714

Program Note
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) was created on the occasion of a composition competition for brass quintets announced by the publishing house Furore Verlag in 2017.
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to record the piece in a recording studio and to make it available to the public. The trumpeter Bernhard Plagg was kind enough to take on the project. He put together a brass quintet, organised rehearsal dates, etc.
The composition consists of two elements that alternate or interpenetrate each other. On the one hand, composed, notated music, harmonic and rhythmic in the broadest sense. And on the other, improvised music, mainly consisting of differentiated, nuanced noises and representing a kind of random music, like random sounds in nature.

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SHORT INTERVIEW

1.) What unique qualities of brass instruments do you aim to highlight in your composition?

My composition consists of two different parts: composed music, which is rhythmic and harmonic in the broadest sense, and improvised music, which consists exclusively of noises and contains aleatoric elements. I had given the musicians a list of playing techniques with details such as hissing sounds, frullato, clicking sounds, whistling, drumming with the fingers on the sound tube and the like. I wanted to show the fantastic things you can do with brass instruments, apart from playing them conventionally

2.) Did you draw on any traditional brass idioms — such as fanfares or chorales — and how did you choose to either embrace or subvert them?

When composing, I actually proceeded quite intuitively, without giving it much thought. The result was optimistic, joyful music. The harmony constantly modulates along the circle of fifths. Every few seconds, another accidental is added, resulting in a continuous circling.
I wanted to counter this with a modern, avant-garde contrast. The noisy, improvised passages are quite exciting and at times ironic or witty. The brief was to create a random music like in nature. However, the composed parts are actually also avant-garde, and often both – the composed and the improvised – permeate each other.

3.) What composers, traditions, or personal experiences informed your work on BRASS TACKS VOL. 3?

I believe that Tagundnachtgleiche is a bit influenced by Bach, although I cannot explain it further. And I also have a lot of experience with improvised music

4.) If you achieve instant mastery over any instrument in the brass family, what would you pick?

Tuba, probably. Or, tenor horn. In any case, one of the lower brass instruments with a soft, voluminous, deep sound.



Tagundnachtgleiche - brass quintet

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and tape
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for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2024/02/22/disquiet-junto-project-0634-bust-a-move/
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from F. J. Haydn - Sinfonia n^6 "Le Matin" - 2° movimento - Adagio
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with the voice of Akemi Takeya
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febbraio 2024

Iki no kôzô

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Iki no k​ô​zô # 3 - w/Akemi Takeya [disquiet # 0634]

I was there for the obsidial dread

Soundscape Experiment #112

Wind Theme

Currenteer retural

Let Go

paris 1 20 bpm 13125 take 1

Short

satiated 15 bpm take 1 21325

This song expresses the passing thunderstorm from begining to end. It consists of three parts.
 
 I: Lotus pond
      Lotus flowers are out peacefully in moist air.
 II: The god of thunder and the god of wind
     The sky is gradually covered by heavy clouds. The god of thunder beats drums on his back and the god of wind blasts. They enjoy playing.
 III: The last raindrop
     The thunderstorm has gone. The last raindrop is falling and glittering in the sunshine.
 
 Thunder sounds in this track were not sampled but synthesized.

 Thank you.

Thunderstorm

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