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

Global Breath, Gesprächskonzert während der Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik am 4. Mai 2024, Uraufführungen von Liza Lim "shallow grave" und "buzzing" von George Lewis, aufgeführt von Marco Blaauw, keramisches Horn, F Trompete und Doppeltrichter Trompete.
Interviews mit Marco Blaauw und George Lewis. Moderation Theresa Beyer.

Global Breath, Gesprächskonzert, Liza Lim, George Lewis, 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

"Buzzing" composed by George Lewis, world premier performance 
by Marco Blaauw, trumpet, and George Lewis, live electronics, at the festival Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 4th of May, 2024.

George Lewis "Buzzing", performed by Marco Blaauw and George Lewis

a trumpet sound around the world in 40 minutes


Global Breath, World of Trumpet Sounds, composition for radio by Marco Blaauw

The Prix Palma Ars Acustica 2024 goes to Marco Blaauw's radio composition Global Breath – World of Trumpet Sounds, a production from SWR, for its outstanding approach to travelling the world through the means of trumpet instruments, encompassing not only man-made instruments, but also sounds from the environment, ie. animals and birds. A subtle journey through the ancestral rituals of the horn or trumpet. The sound of the trumpet plays the role of an instrument of communication across cultures and continents.
https://www.ebu.ch/music/palma-ars-acustica

Global Breath, World of Trumpet Sounds

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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