It's a wonderful sound space. Many colors mix together and eventually become one color. I could see such a fantasy.

Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy - Elegy

Echoes

Вселенная во мне: I. Adagio, II. Allegro. Альбом: Песни о звёздах

Вселенная во мне: I. Adagio, II. Allegro

This beautifully lyrical setting weaves in atmospheric pianistic writing and improvisatory birdsong sounds amidst lush choral textures. The poem explores the subtle music inherent in nature, suggesting a connection between the present and the past.  Affective text painting makes full use of the warmth of the renowned Ember tone.  

Through imagery of rustling leaves, swaying boughs, and faint odors, the poem creates a sense of mystery and hidden harmonies. It evokes a nostalgic longing for the beauty of bygone eras, represented by the "faded springs."

"There is Music" was commissioned through the Ember Ablaze Composer Lab (EACL), and premiered in New York City on 2 May 2025 at St. Malachy's Church/Actors' Chapel, in a concert entitled "Shifting Grounds."  The composer was awarded this commission as the FY'25 EACL Emerging Composer winner.

Text:  

Under-Song, by Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

There is music in the strong
Deep-throated bush,
Whisperings of song
Heard in the leaves' hush -
Ballads of the trees
In tongues unknown -
A reminiscent tone
On minor keys…

Boughs swaying to and fro
Though no winds pass…
Faint odors in the grass
Where no flowers grow,
And flutterings of wings
And faint first notes,
Once babbled on the boughs
Of faded springs.

Is it music from the graves
Of all things fair
Trembling on the staves
Of spacious air -
Fluted by the winds
Songs with no words -
Sonatas from the throats
Of master birds?

One peering through the husk
Of darkness thrown
May hear it in the dusk -
That ancient tone,
Silvery as the light
Of long dead stars
Yet falling through the night
In trembling bars.

There is Music by Leah Porter Tracy; text by Lola Ridge

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08 Gaspard De La Nuit - 1. Ondine

Everything and Nothing

Turn Away and Return

Emmy award-winning composer Michael Price will release Tender Symmetry, his second album with Erased Tapes, on August 31st 2018. The ambitious musical project takes in a series of iconic National Trust locations across England as its inspiration, turning them into unlikely recording spaces. Michael and a host of musicians and collaborators — including soprano Grace Davidson (featured on Max Richter’s Sleep) and Shards (the choir on Nils Frahm’s All Melody) — travelled across the country in pursuit of places far removed from the traditional recording studio to create seven unique and moving pieces.

The diversity of Michael Price’s choices ranges from the ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire to the Fan Bay WWII shelter, cut deep into the chalk cliffs of Dover. All owned by the National Trust save one, each venue became both the inspiration and the recording studio for Michael Price and his accompaniment of renowned musical ensembles, choirs and soloists. 

While each piece of music is named after the location in which it was created, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience courses through them as well. Soprano Grace Davidson sings Blake’s poignant words about nature, religion and the industrial revolution on several of the pieces including the astoundingly beautiful album closer Shade Of Dreams, written after the birth of Michael’s daughter. “The final piece, Shade of Dreams, is part of a group of pieces I wrote for the birth of our daughter, Emilie. It, like all the works on the album, takes its text from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, in this case, A Cradle Song. As much as Tender Symmetry is about the past, it is firmly about the future, and all our of shared futures.”

Alongside soprano Grace Davidson and Shards choir, other performers include virtuoso cellist Peter Gregson, new music experimentalists Immix Ensemble and Manchester Collective. Tender Symmetry will be available worldwide on LP, CD and digitally, including selected National Trust shops, on August 31st 2018. Michael Price will premiere Tender Symmetry live at London’s Kings Place on September 6th.

Released by:
Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Release date:
31 Augist 2018

P-line:
℗ 2018 Erased Tapes Records Ltd.

Tender Symmetry

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Michael Price - Shade Of Dreams

Excerpts rom "The Life of Pi" soundtrack. Score by Mychael Danna. Additional music by Rob Simonsen. 

Orphans

My Absynth version of Brian Eno - An Ending Ascent. This was all done using Absynth's envelopes.

Brian Eno -  "An Ending (Ascent)"

Beltaine - Beltaine

I write music and record at home. Thank you for listening. I really appreciate you taking the time.

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