Soffia La Notte

Cozy Fireplace for Sleep

Snow is Falling

10 MAR / part 31

The final moments of an hour-long piano improvisation in Port Meadow, Oxford. Released for #PianoDay 2016. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CVLS0-ZYI&feature=youtu.be 

Duck

Bildet er tatt av Heinz Hummel fra Pixabay

The Workers' Song

Composed for a 4 chord challenge in February/March 2017 at the Piano Soundboard, with the set chord progression of Dm Am Gm C. Quite unusual for me to stick to these kind of limits!

Dreamcatcher

Live video: https://youtu.be/TNJbb7keU1w

Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

He did these pieces for music students in 1722, and it seems that all composers and musicians from then on became his students.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Piano 3, using a sampled Fazioli grand piano, a subtle sampled Roland SH-101 bass synthesizer, and reverb effect.

Video

J.S. Bach - Prelude No. 1 in C major [chill out]

Made in honor of Piano Day 2018

Download: https://derekhunterwilson.bandcamp.com/track/go-anywhere
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/go-anywhere-single/1364694758
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/779VQJCq0GNwiOJEb03IYD?si=dmHkO86oTdidPKt0e-46Jw
Amazon: http://a.co/1o8lVdj

Recorded January 2018 at Type Foundry, Portland, OR 
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Jason Powers
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Composition Notes: 

“Go Anywhere” is a composition that originally was written in the early stages of a relationship. The spark of this new connection poured over into my music writing and helped initially birth the piece. Shortly after the initial writing of the piece though the woman told me she “didn’t see this going anywhere”. The ending opened up a vista of possibilities and freedom that carried over to the song as well. Unlike other pieces I’ve written, just when I thought I had finished writing it, a new aspect of it unfolded and revealed itself to me. Over the course of almost two years it’s continued to evolve and grow sounding very different than when it originally came to be. 

This is by no means a “final” version of the song. Even after I recorded the piece new aspects of it came to the surface. I can imagine “Go Anywhere” in a variety of instrument configurations and arrangements. I imagine it will continue to grow and evolve going wherever it chooses.

Go Anywhere

https://ftmots.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-stations

From the Mouth of the Sun (aka Aaron Martin & Dag Rosenqvist) return with ‘Sleep Stations,’ an EP of six new songs, out May 18th, 2018 on Lost Tribe Sound. ’Sleep Stations’ rests comfortably alongside 2017’s ‘Hymn Binding’ their third full-length album and their original score for Joshua Z. Weinstein’s feature film, ‘Menashe.’ With ‘Sleep Stations’ the duo assures us that their exquisite palette of classical leaning, electro-acoustics reaped from their previous albums still leaves much to be explored.

In fact, the pieces of ‘Sleep Stations’ were composed during many of the same sessions as ‘Hymn Binding’ and ‘Menashe,’ yet they feel like a natural continuation of From the Mouth of the Sun’s sound, a stepping stone towards the next chapter, if you will. The core sound will be instantly recognizable for those who’ve followed their previous endeavors, comprised of cello, piano, acoustic guitars, lap steel, banjo, ukulele, pump organ, soft humming electronics and warm layer of static.

The title track ‘Sleep Stations’ was originally meant to be included on the album ‘Hymn Binding.’ It acted as a centerpiece and starting point for the music that From the Mouth of the Sun recorded later during the process of scoring the ‘Menashe’ film. The film ended up requiring an extremely spare palette, thus the ‘Sleep Stations’ EP represents a longing for a fuller and more controlled sound that exhibits the dynamic range that From the Mouth of the Sun strive for with their work.

There is a softness and detachment to ‘Sleep Stations’ more so, that seems to give the album an of aerial view of the landscape below. Where ‘Hymn Binding’ felt more grounded in the earth and soil, ‘Sleep Stations’ floats high above, feeling weightless, suspended in slow motion flight.

Arranging ‘Sleep Stations’ as an EP, has allowed Aaron and Dag to tell a shorter story, one that doesn’t have to be such a grand gesture, which is something they’ve wanted to explore for a while now. It’s a beautiful reminder, that a collection of music can still be simple yet deeply affecting, without being overwrought and excessive.
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CASSETTE DETAILS
‘Sleep Stations,’ our 3rd installment in the Dead West Tape Series, arrives on a limited pro-dubbed hi-bias tape cassette, housed in a reverse printed 300gsm heavy stock outer case. The edition (limited to 100) also comes with a download card offering a choice of formats including FLAC, 320K MP3, etc. Mastering was performed by Matthew Collings (aka one half of the duo Graveyard Tapes).
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DEAD WEST TAPE SERIES
Dead West is a series of limited cassette tape releases from the Lost Tribe Sound record label, inspired by the relocation of the LTS headquarters from the dry desert of Arizona to the lowland plains of Wisconsin’s farm country. The Dead West focuses on music built for exploring and soundtracking your environment, whether you're deep in the middle of lush woodlands, or just laying back at home with rested eyes. ‘Sleep Stations’ is the third release in the series. The first two releases in the series come from the composer William Ryan Fritch (Ill Tides) and experimental guitarist Seabuckthorn (I Could See The Smoke).
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credits
releases May 18, 2018

Music & Arrangements by Dag Rosenqvist & Aaron Martin
Mastering by Matthew Collings
Cover Image: NASA/JPL/U of Arizona
Layout & Design by Ryan Keane
© Dag Rosenqvist / Aaron Martin / Lost Tribe Sound LLC
Published by Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP) 2018

About the Death of Stars

Hand-Built Dream was inspired by a visit with my friend and fellow pianist Greg Maroney at his home in rural Pennsylvania. The idyllic, bucolic musical sanctuary he and his partner have created for themselves was such a magical, shining place that I began writing this piece on his Steinway.

This is Track 5 of The 52, a project in which Rachel LaFond is releasing a new single every week for a year.

Hand-Built Dream

An introspective interrogation of the nature of form in language and the superlative absurdity of being- Part I of a series - Lingua Grotesqua

The sound of forms

Theatre director, playwright & String theorist out and about in the deliciously mutative alleys of possibility that the craft of story telling in theatre, movies and theoretical physics plunges us into.
Website: https://jait.pt


The sound of forms

Aeolian Glissings