RED HOT (2015/17) for clarinet, violin, cello and piano 
1. Ballerina
2. Amoris Chaconne [min.3:33]
3. Wolf on a Hot Tin Roof [min. 8:25]

Performing: PROFIL Ensemble
Diana Mos - violin
Emil Visenescu - clarinet
Mircea Marian - cello
Adrian Maier - piano
Live rec. from the International Week of New Music, Bucharest, June 27, 2021

***
RED HOT is inspired by one of the most famous and bizarre fairytales, “Little Red Riding Hood”, that has circled European folklore since the 10th century; but inspiration was drawn as well from various cinematographic sources, such as Tex Avery’s brilliant cartoon from 1943 (where the characters are sexualized and urbanized) or Jan Kounen’s short film Le Dernier Chaperon Rouge (1997), starring Emmanuelle Béart, a surrealist jewel in which the grotesque and the nightmarish balances an idealised and profoundly strange vision of the forrest. Each of the three parts is based on a distinct repetitive pattern: Ballerina (Kouen inspired) is a music box dominated by thirds that gradually deteriorates; Amoris Chaconne is an imaginary spiral-constructed film music (inspired by the structure of a real film, Los amantes del círculo polar by Julio Medem, 1998); finally, Wolf on a Hot Tin Roof is a visceral ludic imaginary folk music (a paraphrase on another famous love story, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958). The work is a commission of the Romanian Union of Composers and Musicologists and written for Mercury Quartet.

RED HOT (PROFIL ensemble)

live recording from Gen X Festival April 24th 2022, Walt Disney Hall, LA
Voice: Catherine Brookman
Alarm Will Sound
Conductor: Alan Pierson

Recorded and mastered by Daniel Neumann

text: 
1. Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
2. Art-as-Art. Art from Art. Art on Art. Art of Art. Art for Art. Art beyond Art. Artless artifice.
13. Forms into uniform and formlessness. Style as recurrence.
14. Light as reappearance,dullness. Color as black, empty.
16. Verticality and horizontality, rectilineartity, parallelsim, stasis.
17. Outlines, monotones, blankness, quiescence, premeditation.
19. Matter only to the mind.
20. The strictest formula for the freest artistic freedom.
21. The easiest routine to the difficulty.
22. The most common mean to the most common end.
23. The extremely impersonal way for the truly personal.
24. The completest control for the purest spontaneity.
25. The most universal path to the most unique. And vice-versa.

From “25 Lines of Words on Art Statement” by Ad Reinhardt (permission to use text kindly granted by the Reinhardt estate)

music for people who like art (filmed/recorded at Walt Disney Hall, courtesy of LA Phil)

performed by Musarc with
Cara Houghton (flute), Rowan Jones (clarinet), Michelle Hromin (bass clarinet), Andrew Hamilton (violin), Andrew Liddell (viola), Rebecca Burden (cello), Steve Potter (piano).
conducted by Jack Sheen

recorded 2022

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Low Sheen for solo piano with electric keyboard. 

Performed by Ansel Luk on 17.02.24 at The Eleventh Hour, Melbourne. 

Recorded and mixed by Mish Szekelyhidi.

A video of the performance can be found here: https://youtu.be/ydVzYcGYVqc

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Lower Dark Star for voice and piano. 

Performed by Judith Dodsworth and Leigh Harrold on 10.04.24 at The Eleventh Hour, Melbourne. 

Recorded by Krishan Meepe and edited by Saxon Hornett.

A: 0:00
B: 0:55
C: 2:01
D: 2:53

A video of the performance can be found here: https://youtu.be/XunPKj8eA74

Lower Dark Star (2023) - 10.04.24

Concert recording, 20/07/2024, Bratislava, recorded by Krisztina Megyeri. Performed by: Anna Lachegyi - viol, Róza Lachegyi - baroque violin, Dóra Pétery - harpsichord.  
Cover photo credit: George Logan.

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In airde sna spéartha bhí lampa mór buí ar a
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As / From: An Béal Bocht / The Poor Mouth
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