This composition is part of the series Acidic Naiads, composed in April 2023.
Composition, performance, recording by Marco Blaauw.
This piece is played on a double bell trumpet with 1 clip microphone in each muted bell. The microphones connect the trumpet to to a modular synthesizer with 4 different patches.  Switching between patches happens with the 5h valve and a foot switch.
Produced with the help of NEUSTART KULTUR

Noxious Breeze

Raven Chacon, "Call for the Company, in the Morning", 
composition for 8 trumpets, written for The Monochrome Project,
commissioned by the BBC and the Huddersfield Contemporary MUsic Festival.
Live performance at the Angelica Festival, Bologna, 
November 23d, 2022
The Monochrome Project:
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Christopher Collings, Mathilde Conley, Rike Huy, Bob Koertshuis, Nathan Plante, Laura Vukobratović

Raven Chacon, Call for the Company, in the Morning

Juste Janulyte, Unanime, long version for 8 trumpets
The Monochrome Project, live @ festival Romanische Sommer, Cologne 6th June 2021
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Mathilde Conley, Rike Huy, Bob Koertshuis, Nathan Plante, Markus Schwind, Laura Vukobratović

Juste Janulyte, Unanime, The Monochrome Project

The Monochrome Project, first performance of "monochrome light blue darkness", composition by Milica Djordjević.
Recorded at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, May 3d 2024
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Mathilde Conley, Christopher Collings, Rike Huy, Bob Koertshuis, Nathan Plante, Laura Vukobratović

Milica Djordjević "monochrome light blue darkness"

Anna Korsun FOS, performed by The Monochrome Project, recording of the premier performance at the festival Romanische Sommer 2024, Sankt Gereon, Cologne, on 5th June 2024. 

The Monochrome Project:
Marco Blaauw, Christine Chapman, Christopher Collings, Mathilde Conley, Mechthild Drop, Lucy Humphris, Markus Schwind, Laura Vukobratović

Anna Korsun, FOS, The Monochrome Project

Milica Djordjević, Nailing Clouds II, for Eflat flugehorn solo, performed by Marco Blaauw at the festival Acht Brücken.
Recording of the premier performance on 1st of May 2023.

Milica Djordjevic, Nailing Clouds II, for Eflat flugelhorn, Marco Blaauw

Liza Lim, "Shallow Grave" solo for neolithic horn and F trumpet
premier performance by Marco Blaauw at Eclat festival, Stuttgart, February 2024
There’s an image that sticks in my mind: March 2022, 12 days into the war in Ukraine, a military brass band plays, standing around a crater made by a Russian bomb. The image echoes on in our times of extreme and often incomprehensible violence and I’ve been thinking a lot about music’s power to address and reach into a hole in the ground and pull back up some life energy from what has been destroyed. The power of music to speak to the dead, to reach back in time and unwind something; to make passages for the living; music as a living knot in time between the ancestral and the unborn—these are some basic themes of recent work.
Shallow Grave is in two parts. In the first part, Marco Blaauw plays a ‘Neolithic’ horn, a replica of a 3,000-year-old ceramic horn excavated from a rock shelter in Vallabrix, Southern France and recreated by André Schlauch as part of the European Music Archaeology project. It’s shaped like an animal horn but I think of it as a lump of earth with a mouth. The second part of the piece is for solo trumpet; music of bitter and ironic humour, an imaginary ‘Punch and Judy’ show of stupid sock puppets bashing each other with sticks and rocks until the puppets bleed.

Liza Lim, Shallow Grave, performed by Marco Blaauw

Dai Fujikura "Bell" performed by Marco Blaauw, trumpet
studio recording October 2023
"Bell" was composed from pre-existing work “Obi” for sho and backing track. “Obi” was commissioned by Tamami Tono.
The backing track is derived from the original backing track of "Obi," with the sho material performed by Tamami Tono, and the trumpet harmonizer element played by Marco Blaauw. The trumpet transcription from the original piece 'Obi' was crafted by Marco Blaauw, with newly composed trumpet elements by the composer.

uploaded with kind permission from Marco Blaauw

Dai Fujikura, "Bell", performed by Marco Blaauw

Isabel Mundry, Solo auf Schwellen (2003)
performed by Marco Blaauw (2004)
Recorded in 2004, at Deutschland Funk, Cologne

Isabel Mundry, Solo Auf Schwellen (2003)

trumpet solo in acoustics of a large space (long reverberation) 
Recorded in the Vigeland Mausoleum, Oslo, October 2024
Marco Blaauw, double bell trumpet

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