Bonne Fête

dopamine was written for the JACK Quartet. It uses scordatura (retuning) and natural harmonics on the all the instruments to obtain precise microtonal notes and chords. The title refers to a hormone and neurotransmitter which occurs in humans and some mammals. Dopamine is typically associated with the pleasure system; people with higher dopamine levels tend to seek out more pleasurable activities and vice versa. Dopamine is also associated with creativity and the generation of new ideas. I used dopamine as a metaphor for this string quartet because it was written within a short span of a few days in an unprecedented creative fervor. My motivation came from both the creative experience and from the music itself, which gave me great pleasure to listen to. Perhaps my own level of dopamine was very high as I wrote this music. I suppose I will never know.

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https://jeffmyers.bandcamp.com/track/dopamine

dopamine for string quartet

We've Met Before, Haven't We? explores the complex web of harmonics based on the notes of the cimbalom most closely in tune with the harmonic series, A, D, and E. The violin emphasizes the resonance of the cimbalom harmonics, with a particular focus on the very rarely heard 43rd
harmonic. In this way, the piece serves to investigate the more theoretical upper reaches of the
harmonic series, and create a soundworld out of frequencies very rarely used in music.

We've Met Before, Haven't We

Commissioned by Spółdzielni Muzycznej contemporary ensemble

Małgorzata Mikulska – bass flute
Tomasz Sowa – Bb clarinet
Krzysztof Guńka – tenor saxophone
Barbara Mglej – viola
Paulina Woś – violin
Jakub Gucik – cello
Aleksander Wnuk – percussion
Aleksandra Płaczek – piano/electronic

https://sacrumprofanum.com/en
https://spoldzielniamuzyczna.com/

November 11th 2024, Kraków. Poland

"ergodic" live at Sacrum Profanum 2024

méson kaí ákron

2/4 of the EP "psychonomy" this time regarding how strange it is that "hard" sciences are about material (and mathematical?) reality while the "soft" ones lean towards the humanities : what are we supposed to become, liquidities?

listening way in 
deep through bushes
for the crack, falling
off a tree’s, spleen
the whole burning
our woods smooshes
in a pulp the green
however I’ve been

praying ; I’d toil
brews and foil
to move some place
quiet, out of race

making way in
to steep in soft
science gone aloft
on globular croft
liquid we’d wear fins
disposable and lean
flaking stuffing bins
boiling, made in tins
while little costs
as much, pristine
the matters tossed
in the dark of frost

praying ; I’d toil
brews and foil
to move some place
quiet, out of race

oils

241127Laura Palmer

Chelou is a French slang word meaning strange, bizarre, or shady. This composition seeks to
explore the different “shades” and interactions between different harmonic sound colors in order to produce a strange and disorienting feeling.  This includes the technique of introducing pitches based on the harmonic series’ of other harmonics, leading to a surreal and complex form of counterpoint. Chelou is composed in 43 limit just intonation, a tuning system where the notes played exist outside of the 12 equally tuned keys of a piano.

Chelou

A piece in 89 limit just intonation, with a subsonic 10hz fundamental.

Not Ready for Prime Time (87 and 89)

Heads up: this is best listened to with your eyes closed, imagining adventures in space!!
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Mostly in Just Intonation, this 90-minutes album by Tachy Bunker is an electronic prog-rock/symphony that narrates the cosmic natural life of ancestors of the Orbissators, hiding in nebulas waiting for travelers to dismantle.

In it you'll find synthesizers, some throat singing, bagpipes, gamelan ensembles, an orchestra, and many influences spanning from Streets of Rage 2 to Caftaphata.

I hope that you will listen to and be excited about my projects, if so either buy or go to my website to get enlisted on my newsletter!!
https://tachybunker.fr/sfs

Next up is the big Xalora album, where Dr. Bunker goes to a pulsars-orbiting exoplanet and records the ecosystem & culture of the life there

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Spiders from Space I

A demo of a slow harmony study using a 1-3-5-9-11 Dekany

3 of Pentacles (Rotation 9) - v3 DEMO

Zinc & Copper

Elena Kakaliagou - horn
Hilary Jeffery - trombone
Robin Hayward - tuba

spaced out well tuned brass for tuning baths

Well Tuned Brass_excerpt nr.2

As Above, So Below (71 53 27)

Slow Death (31 17 13)

These are two voice field recorded tracks, made in an abandoned U-shaped concrete military tunnel-like structure. The chatter of swallows and other ambient sounds occur. This is unedited, and no effects are added. 

tune to this moment

Composer, mathematician, visual artist. 
Seeks collaboration with performers and choreographers.

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Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. His music is a rich collusion of styles, constantly blurring the boundaries between the familiar and foreign, mirroring the diasporic evolution of cultural identity in the twenty-first century. Currently living in Los Angeles, his unique voice finds outlet in puppet operas, accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, electronic collages, site-specific installations, chamber music, post-punk opera, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. 

Zinc & Copper - well tuned brass from Berlin
Elena Kakaliagou - french horn
Hilary Jeffery - trombone, trumpet 
Robin Hayward - microtonal tuba, tuning vine
+ many guest musicians and composers!

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/lapiselle

experiments in sound, listening, duration & perception

☨ You won't survive the Second Cosmocide ☨

Hidden discography:
https://on.soundcloud.com/nb6Aa1BLnMp61Pmd8

Overtime verwo decided to commit all his composition to microtonality, mostly using a sobre mix of rational and irrational intervals to do classical theme development within various styles like rock, jazz, electronic, trip-hop, sometimes involving simple polyrhythmic beats resulting in ethereal yet unsettling soundscapes.

Microtonal - Indie - Post Punk - Alternative - Experimental - Classical - Jazz

The music of Jeff Myers has been called “Striking…and harmonically rich” by the New York Times and “…brilliant and powerful…” by The Classical Voice of New England. Myers draws on preexisting musical works, styles and genres, as well as visual art and natural phenomena. Filipino kulintang music, works by M.C. Escher, overtone music, folk music and geographical narratives have been a source for inspiration. His operatic collaboration with writer and filmmaker Royce Vavrek yielded the one-act opera The Hunger Art, based on Kafka’s "The Hunger Artist" and the Adam and Eve story. Currently Myers is working on a new full length opera with Mr. Vavrek (Maren of Vardø) and a new one-act opera with writer Quincy Long (Buried Alive) As part of American Lyric Theater’s “Poe Project”.

His music has been played by Hilary Hahn on her international tour (encores project and forthcoming recording on Deutsche Grammaphon), ensembles such as L’Orchestre National de Lorraine, American Composers Orchestra, Ann Arbor Symphony, New York Youth Symphony, members of New World Symphony, University of Michigan Symphony Band, American Lyric Theater, Center City Opera, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Transit, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, and the JACK Quartet. He has received awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, as well as fellowships from the Aspen Festival, Tanglewood, Festival Acanthes, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and grants from institutions and private funds such as the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center, Puffin Foundation, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust, the Anna Sosenko Trust, and The Fromm Foundation. His music has been heard at Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, Kimmel Center, Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, Symphony Space, Arsenal, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Tenri Cultural Institute to name a few. Myers holds degrees from San José State University, the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan. He currently resides New York as a freelance composer.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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