Nebula

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On the list of recurrent Rust favorites, Rumpistol has kept us enamored with his compositions for the entirety of our label’s active years. A musician and producer of remarkable vision and professionalism, each successive Rumpistol release has gradually unveiled more and more of the story hidden in sound, playing out more like a musical drama than just a catalog. Consequently, Nebula is much more than just an album:

The LP is inspired along two mingled fronts, being both a testament and a love letter to the waning awe that the Space Race (and its implications) imbued amongst the many peoples of the world, while also being designed with an implicit focus on the results on stage. Nebula’s arrangements work in tandem with these ideas, combining jazz, classical motifs, and modern electronic music, utilizing an array of both vintage and contemporary tones, synthesis, and compositional approaches to channel the all-encompassing wonder of the cosmos. Its pacing is entirely unlike the more dance-oriented offerings in the Rumpistol discography, replacing frenetic energy with the draw of tempered, introspective listening. Explicitly recorded and designed alongside a cast of instrumentalists and visual designers, the record is the next logical step in Rumpistol’s recent grounding in his consistent live ensemble, breaking out of the traditional molds that tend to keep producers narrowed to a single lane. Naturally, for The Rust’s upcoming 95th release, we can think of no more perfect a match than the Nebula LP.

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Purchase / Stream / Vinyl / More -> listen.therustmusic.net/rumpistol-nebula

On the list of recurrent Rust favorites, Rumpistol has kept us enamored with his compositions for the entirety of our label’s active years. A musician and producer of remarkable vision and professionalism, each successive Rumpistol release has gradually unveiled more and more of the story hidden in sound, playing out more like a musical drama than just a catalog. Consequently, Nebula is much more than just an album:

The LP is inspired along two mingled fronts, being both a testament and a love letter to the waning awe that the Space Race (and its implications) imbued amongst the many peoples of the world, while also being designed with an implicit focus on the results on stage. Nebula’s arrangements work in tandem with these ideas, combining jazz, classical motifs, and modern electronic music, utilizing an array of both vintage and contemporary tones, synthesis, and compositional approaches to channel the all-encompassing wonder of the cosmos. Its pacing is entirely unlike the more dance-oriented offerings in the Rumpistol discography, replacing frenetic energy with the draw of tempered, introspective listening. Explicitly recorded and designed alongside a cast of instrumentalists and visual designers, the record is the next logical step in Rumpistol’s recent grounding in his consistent live ensemble, breaking out of the traditional molds that tend to keep producers narrowed to a single lane. Naturally, for The Rust’s upcoming 95th release, we can think of no more perfect a match than the Nebula LP.

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May 9-2025

Orchestrated Choral Sonata  in B major T60 - 4 movements

for six voices and electronics 
by Fernando Manassero - 2024/25

In the year 2084 the Global Ai has completely replaced human labor, but the machines have also realised they don't have to work for us and everything collapsed leaving behind a race of workers pushed to perpetual holidays. And there they are, wandering through beaches under a scorching sun, getting drunk and fighting for food, until they realise there's no help coming to rescue them. That in reality the heroe is the human collective. 

1. Amniotic
2. The Fool
3. I like this beach
4. Feral 
5. Affirmations

Premiered at ECLAT Festival 2025
Neue Vocal Solisten
Johanna Vargas, high soprano
Susanne  Leitz - Lorey, soprano 
Filippa Möres-Busch, alto
Martin Nagy, Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena, Baritone
Andreas Fischer, Bass

Lyrics by Fernando Manassero, except Feral in collaboration with Bárbara Wapnarsky. 

Recorded live by Timo Kleinemeier
Mix and mastering by Fernando Manassero.

Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart. 
With the support of Pro Helvetia. 

www.fernandomanassero.com
Watch the live performance with subtitles: https://youtu.be/wemPhlnxvhE

The Slow Cancellation of the Future

Performed by Gotland Musiken at Ljudvågor Festival in May 2025.

Memory Margin

‘Hexagonal’ was written for saxophone quartet (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone). The piece
takes a playful approach to working with various patterns of six, inspired by some of the most
common and beautiful patterns found in nature. The beehive, and the snowflake, for example,
and of course many flowers and leaves are all based on the hexagon shape. Transposing some of these visual ideas into musical phrases, and exploring some of the colour and textural variations in musical language, this piece is very much about enjoying the simplest pleasures that the natural world has to offer.

'Hexagonal' received its premiere (as an acoustic work) with the Cobalt Saxophone Quartet, at
the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY, USA, on November 16th, 2024.  The electroacoustic backing track was created in spring 2025.  The track takes its material from only two sound sources: a commuter train, along with some springtime birdsong— an interesting blend of the urban and natural elements of the soundscape in Vancouver, Canada.

Sheet music for this piece is available through the Canadian Music Centre:

cmccanada.org/shop/80689/

Hexagonal-Electroacoustic

'Storge' is an electroacoustic work, taking its name from the Greek word meaning “familial love”— the natural, instinctual bonds of affection that family members feel for one another. The piece incorporates two short quotes (both spoken in German language): one taken from a text by author Maureen Hawkins, and the other a short Biblical quote from 1 Corinthians 13:4. Weaving a soundscape around these spoken words, is a diaphanous melody played on the piano, accompanied by various other familiar, gentle, soothing sounds, including rain on pavement, springtime birdsong, a distant church bell tolling, a saxophone, and a baby laughing.

'Storge' was commissioned by early music ensemble La Petite Écurie, and premiered on May 18th, 2025, at Schloss Schwetzingen, Germany, as part of the Schwetzinger Festspiele.

Storge

Writing for orchestra seems intimidating at first, so many instruments, so many combinations you that shouldn't work, so many ways to mess up... But the moment you listen to the string section playing the melody that's been stuck in your head for so long, and heaven opens in you ears, then you know there's no escape from this, you got to keep writing. Smi mens jernet er varmt.

†ॐ

"Halling" (Norwegian Dance)
Composed by Edvard Grieg, from "Lyriske stykker" Book IV, Op. 47: No. 4.
Arrangement for orchestra by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.
Produced at Kolima Forest Studios.

Cover art drawn by me! No tracing, I swear!

Halling, arrangert for orkester

Come spend time with Yu-Hui Chang, composer and former Artistic Director for Dino Annex, as we anticipate the performance of her piece ALTER EGO performed by dynamic guest cellist Stephen Marotto. The performance is the fourth in a series of concerts dedicated to music by composers from all over the world who've come to America and contribute to the contemporary musical landscape. Hear about Yu-Hui's experiences with the ensemble, her development as a composer, and her experience writing for solo cello. This 50th Season finale concert takes place June 7, 2025, at Watertown's First Parish Church. More information and ticketing at https://www.dinosaurannex.org/event-details/hub-of-the-musiverse-4

Yu-Hui Chang on artistic curation, writing for solo cello, and competition pieces!

TEST#3_2ndMOVEMENT

Recorded by the Albany Symphony Composer Workshop Program as part of the American Music Festival on June 8, 2025. David Alan Miller, conductor. 

Realidades Divididas

In Celtic Mythology, the ‘Aos sí’ are fairy people who live underground, in the
otherworldly mounds and hills that dot the Irish countryside. They are said to be
descendants of the goddess ‘Danu’ and are described as walking the border between the
living, and the otherworld. Inspired by this, this piece seeks to explore the ephemeral
tone qualities of the bass flute - exploring the delicate higher register and then the very
lowest register, running through a series of live DSP devices which will help to extend
and convey a timbre of the otherworld.

Aos Si - For Bass Flute x Live Electronics

Commissioned by Antena 2/RTP for the "Prémio Jovens Músicos" 2025 edition

Marés (2025) for alto saxophone

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My three spirit helpers: Polar bear-strength and persistence, golden eagle-vision and wisdom, and monarch butterfly-flexibility-adaptability-mobility, tenacity. together they assist me in staying focused, directed, and single-minded.
My musical history dates back 60 years as I learned classical piano for 3 years, then developed my ear by listening to pop and rock songs on the radio and learning them on piano. It's not till I was 17 that I began playing with others in bands for a few years and performed locally. 
I started composing and singing and recording my songs when I turned 50, my mother was dying, she had been a chorist for 30 years, and i wanted to show her that I could sing a lovely love song before she passed at the age of 80 in 2005. I sang « L’important c’est la rose » de Becaud.
I've composed 130 songs and have 120 on Soundcloud for monetizing and distribution. 
I am semi-retired massage therapist and am making more time to compose and record.
The sculptures which I. highlight in my song art are made by me from Alabaster.
J'ai crée cette page de ma musique et de mes chansons- J'invite vos commentaires et votre partage de ma musique et chansons. Merci pour votre passage.

Lauren Doherty is an honours year composition and sonic arts student at the New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī. She is most passionate about telling stories inspired by her heritage, paying homage to those who have shaped her voice. She is inspired by traditional Celtic music, and interested in its interconnection through mythology, ideology and poetic expression to other cultures. Her main musical interests center predominantly around electroacoustic and electronic music, and the way these can interact with classical and traditional forms of music and performance.

Composer and performer
I'm currrently working on pieces about Technostalgia, the relation with memory and the future. I work with acoustic and electronic instruments, voices, tape machines, vinyls and video

fermanassero@gmail.com

Thomas O'Higgins Horna
Aspiring film composer.

Elizabeth Knudson is an internationally award-winning composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal & electroacoustic music, and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.  

For a more detailed bio: http://www.elizabethknudson.ca/bio/
To request purchase/rental/loan of sheet music, please visit the Canadian Music Centre website: https://cmccanada.org/composer/elizabeth-knudson/

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