"under current" (FRAGMENT) for electric guitar & orchestra; Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar) & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, cond Ilan Volkov - SUB ROSA RECORDS SR564 - [Entire track: 39 mins]

"under_current" (Stefan Prins, 2020-2021/23) - fragment

Electronic music ranging from ambient to experimental.

I was trained in tradition, yet I stepped beyond its walls. Sound is my language, not to decorate but to liberate. Composer, performer, and listener — one fire, three sparks, inseparable.

I write and compose to uncover what is hidden: the truth buried beneath power, the dignity of the ordinary, the current of awareness that flows through all.

I belong to no authority, only to sound, to truth, to the silence from which all begins. My work is not mastery, but remembrance — a manifesto in every note, every word, every breath.

I am a composer of the 21st century: a studio artist. The studio is my forge, my battlefield, my sanctuary. Machines hum like choirs, circuits burn like torches, cables twist like roots in the earth. Tradition breaks open in this fire — the score turns to light, the instrument becomes the world itself.

To be a studio artist is to seize sound at its rawest, to sculpt electricity and breath as one, to summon the invisible power that belongs to all. Here music is not bound by walls, not enslaved by profit, not tamed by form. It is free, untouchable, unending — a living flame for the century that is ours.

Ali Latif-Shushtari (*1990) was born in Iran. After studying Mathematics in high school, he started an academic major in Solid-state Physics at the University of Isfahan and the University of Kashan, successfully fulfilling both a BSc and an MSc specializing in Nano-electronics. Alongside his academic studies, he began to educate himself in classical music and soon discovered his passion for music theory and composition which finally led him to change his academic focus. In September 2019, he was admitted directly to a Master’s degree program in Music Composition at Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), a program he successfully finished in October 2022 under the mentorship of Xavier Dayer, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Leo Dick. He has attended numerous workshops and masterclasses instructed by composers such as Stefan Prins, Mauro Lanza, Dieter Ammann, Oscar Bianchi, and Gilbert Nouno. His music has been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble ICTUS, Windspiel Duo für Neue Musik, Ensemble Shockwave, and Ensemble Vortex. He was also one of the two assistant composers and the co-directors in the CHROMA XXI and XXII projects; an installation of instruments and sound objects created by Rebecca Saunders realized in October 2021.
He currently is pursuing his Ph.D. in Composition / Musicology at Graduate School Freiburg-Bern for Artistic Research. His research is focused on the Analysis/Integration of liminality in interdisciplinary composition.

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"Live where your heart can be given and your life starts to unfold." – Tommy Hall.

#experimental #improvisation #nowave #stoner #psych #kraut #noiserock #punk #folklore.

Adam Majdecki-Janicki (1985) has been writing poetry, lyrics, composing, playing, and recording since 1998. His most important achievements to date include his debut poetry collection “Siva in Rags” (Kendra Steiner Editions, USA, 2008), the vinyl and CD “Second Hand Man” (Mimics Cool, Poland, 2011), the CD-R and vinyl “Stoned Gypsy Wanderer” (Kendra Steiner Editions, USA, 2014 / Ramble Records, Australia, 2021), the experimental/ambient album “Eimi” (Snow in Water Records, France, 2020), the vinyl album of his group Säure Adler (Ramble Records, Australia, 2021), and countless other physical and digital releases worldwide.

Mateusz Śmigasiewicz (1989), artysta dźwiękowy, kompozytor, muzyk. Absolwent Uniwersytetu Muzycznego Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie w klasie kompozycji i multimediów prof. Zygmunta Krauze. Uczestnik kursów kompozytorskich pod kierunkiem wielu wybitnych artystów, takich jak Simon Steen-Andersen, Phillipp Manoury, Johannes Kreidler, Mark Andre, Agata Zubel, Stefan Prins, Marco Stroppa, Marta Ptaszyńska, Maurizio Sotelo, czy Ondřej Adámek. Działa twórczo na wielu polach, komponując muzykę kameralną, symfoniczną, elektroakustyczną oraz muzykę ilustracyjną do teatru i filmu. 

Interesuje go rozstrajanie zastanych współbrzmień, zagęszczanie faktur, rozciąganie czasu, rozszerzanie przestrzeni – również poprzez tworzenie na zasadzie bliskiej współpracy z wykonawcą. Działa intuicyjnie, choć bliska jest mu procesualność. Uwielbia aranżować sytuacje, w których reguły komunikacji nie są do końca jasne, posługując się przeczuciami zamiast słów.

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Mateusz Śmigasiewicz (b. 1989) is a Polish composer, sound artist and musician. He studied with prof. Zygmunt Krauze at Fryderyk Chopin Music University and in 2015 gained a master degree in composition and multi-media (graduation - 2015). He participated in master classes with many composers, including Simon Steen-Andersen, Phillippe Manoury, Johannes Kreidler, Mark Andre, Stefan Prins, Marco Stroppa, Ondřej Adámek. Mateusz works in many areas, composing chamber music, electroacoustic, electronic music and music film and theater.

He is interested in detuning existing consonances, thickening textures, stretching time, expanding space - also by creating in close collaboration with the performer. He works intuitively, although processuality is important to him. He loves to arrange situations in which the rules of communication are not entirely clear, using premonitions instead of words.

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ACOUSTIC AND   ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC  COMPOSER .
STUDIED  COMPOSITION WITH  SERGIU  NATRA .
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC  MUSIC  WITH YIZHAK  SADAI .
PIANO  --  WITH  PNINA  SALZMAN  , BART  BERMAN  , AVI  SCHONFELD .
CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC  COMPOSER , ACOUSTIC ,
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC   MUSIC , 
EXPERIMENTAL  MUSIC . SOUND  ARTIST .
IMPROVISATION AND INTUITIVE MUSIC .
PIANIST .
ACCORDION AND  RECORDER  PLAYER .
FOUNDED  AND  CURATED    2  SERIES  OF  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC  MUSIC   IN TEL AVIV  ,  ISRAEL  -- 
 " NIGHT  HAPPENING -  FORUM FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC "    1986  -  2007
" OTHER  ISRAELI  MUSIC "      1985   -  1987
MANY COLLABORATIONS  WITH  POETS , ACTORS , DANCERS ,  PAINTERS ,
 VIDEO ARTISTS , PERFORMANCE  ARTISTS .
MORE THAN  120  PREMIERS  OF  NEW  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC MUSIC - 
ACOUSTIC , ELECTROACOUSTIC , MULTI-MEDIA  --  WERE  PRESENTED
IN  HIS  SERIES DURING  23  YEARS OF ACTIVITY .
HIS  MUSIC WAS  PERFORMED  IN  EUROPE , CANADA , USA .
WON  VARIOUS GRANTS AND PRIZES .