Performed by Madawaska String Quartet, Music Gallery, Toronto, 2006

Recorded by Paul Hodge

Honourable Mention in the contest for the 2008 Brian M. Israel Prize, awarded by the Society for New Music and the NY Federation of Music Clubs

In the first movement, I use some aleatoric elements over repeated percussive patterns that draw on influences from some popular electronic musics.These passages are contrasted with jazz-influenced writing.The second movement is the most traditional and lyrical.The third ‘brings everything together uncomfortably’.



Diminished But Returning: A String Quartet

This is the end, to my lover
I'll cut my neck for you
to show you

My blood
My guts
My love for you

This is my promise if I'm gone
visit my body
take it if you want

This is the end
Take my heart
It's yours to keep
Stay until the end

I will give my skull to you
if you need it too

Walktrip - Ilostmysanityanditskindascary (cover)

遊戲GAMES

Diminished But Returning - mvt 1 (Madawaska String Quartet)

Diminished But Returning - mvt 2 (Madawaska String Quartet)

Diminished But Returning - mvt 3 (Madawaska String Quartet)

we are the mass who will fight for our rights
we are the thoughts that you have in the night
you control over everything, the land, the rights, and the powerless

shedding blood with no mercy
no remorse, you fucking tyranny
eat the rich, cause we have no liability

"line em up one by one, kill them all and don't leave none"
these tyrants think they have it all, pigs on fucking pedestals

revolution is not an apple that falls when its ripe
you have to make it fall

"putragis amang, putragis amang kami'y namamalimos lamang ng kapirasong lupa.
bakit pinaputok ang kanilang sandata? hayup nga ba kaming, hayup sa turing,
bakit kaming gutom bala ang pinakain? putragis amang, ang palasyo pala ay 'di
dulugan ng awa, ang kongreso pala'y kongreso ng panginoong may lupa. saan namin
hahanapin ang pangakong paglaya? putragis amang, wag nila kaming itulak sa
dingding, mabangis sumalakay ang mga ginutom sa tagisan ng bagang kapag wala
nang madurog na kanin, huhulagpos ang malaong, galit na kimkim."

we'll revolt against these turncoats, over and over reborn again
reborn, red, revolt, again

Ang Tanging May Pananagutan Lamang Ay Ang Panginoong May Lupa

An epic electro-cinematic victory theme; some aching notes and weary synths, but the rest is both ethereal and thumbs-up city.

Temporal Dawn

A crimson-lit midnight blue space, a low bed with chrome fabric coverlets,  a glass ceiling above exposing star-strafed night sky. It’s plastic melancholia infused with desire, a Lynch sort of vibe.

The Rooms of Mercy

Summer Fences

Plays One on TV

calm before cumulonimbus

Never In Dreams

All Kinds of People - Love Burt Bacharach

Jim O'Rourke Always Something There to Remind Me (Thurston Moore)

Pleasentries (With Your Lover)

New album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

Composer, guitarist, theorist, educator, originally from Ottawa. Here, you will find a mix of acoustic and electronic compositions as well as demonstration recordings of more standard classical and jazz repertoire on guitar.

Compositeur/guitariste/théoricien/enseignant canadien, originaire d'Ottawa. Voici des compositions acoustiques et électroacoustiques ainsi que des interpretations des morceaux du répertoire standard classique et jazz.

Nouvel album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

Diminished But Returning - mvt 3 (Madawaska String Quartet)

Sundar Subramanian

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