Kindly recorded for Brain Pickings. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/07/26/david-whyte-the-truelove

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

David Whyte reads his poem "The Truelove"

The music, sounds, and stories of composer Miguel Frasconi, known for work with instruments made from glass and also a master of analog electronic sound. Here are solos for glass, mbira, and a piece for the Jack String Quartet, all recorded in concert at Roulette, plus a 1995 electronic trio with J.A. Deane and Bob Ostertag recorded at the Hotel Utah in San Francisco.

roulette.org

Miguel Frasconi: Breaking Glass

Aleatoric Orchestral

Ensemble InterContemporain
Nicolò Umberto Foron, conductor

Premiere (live recording)
Friday 10th November 2023

60° Festival Nuova Consonanza 
Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone

© Ph: Cantarelli Marta
© Archivio Nuova Consonanza

Seeds of Light

This story is called Barbie. It's about women who dream of becoming barbie dolls, and men who dream of making love to barbie dolls.

Vanita Monk: reading
Victor Sue Bio: electric guitar
Joe Monk: keyboard, drone and echo processing

All words are excerpts from the novel Vanita & Joe Monk’s Antarctica
(Monastery Books 2008, ISBN 978-90-813947-1-0).
All words copyright © 2008 by Vanita & Joe Monk. All rights reserved.
All music by the musicians performing

Recorded in Rotterdam, July 15, 2006
Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Johanna Monk

Barbie

Composed for the site specific theater work SURRENDER by Lauren Elder at Project Artaud, San Francisco, 1993. For an ensemble of voice, strings, accordion, and drum. Text by the Mexican shaman and poet, Maria Sabina.
This is the first of weekly #throwbackthursday from my personal archive.

Maria Sabina Chant (1993)

Don'cha Go 'Way Mad & Mexicali Rose

Suzana Lașcu - voice
Toms Mikals - piano
Johannes Fend - double bass

Silk, Copper & Plastic @ CrownCafe

Exploring this newly discovered Buchla Music Easel patch.

Embracing the Chaos

Continued exploration of this newly discovered Buchla Music Easel patch...

Surfing the Uncertainty

More experiments with the 700 FM Voice module and it's companion effects module the AuraTie. Everything is real time with those being the main sources.  I've strung together a series of different self-playing soundscapes.  More on the modules here: https://gmxe.org/

700FM Alien Soundscapes

a brief piece with Waterphone, Shakuhachi and plucked piano

Silk, Copper & Plastic @ CrownCafe

Suzana Laşcu

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