Back for 2025 is our Side-By-Side interview series, exclusively for Recorder31. Each week, two professional recorder players meet up for a chat about their careers, current projects and other recorder stories! These candid conversations offer an inspirational glance into life as a recorder player and we hope you love listening to them!

In the final interview in this year's series, LA-based recorder player and jazz musician Tali Rubinstein joins forces with London-based contemporary artist and 'roborecorder' pioneer Liza Bec. Meeting for the first time during their interview, together they discuss their use of the instrument in contexts outside of classical music, along with their backgrounds in music and approaches to composition and performance.

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Recorder31 Side-By-Side Interview | Tali Rubinstein & Liza Bec

Well hello… are we having fun yet as we travel around the sun? First off, I do not know how to play piano. Bear with me on this. I am just learning hand and finger placement on the keyboard. I did not use any of that to do this song. Ha. A friend just gave me an older electronic keyboard that he dug out from all the dusty junk in his shed. So I have been noodling about and learning a bit of music along the way. I am also testing glass, as a percussion instrument. I already broke my favorite glass slide. (Just get a drum set Dude!) Hahaha. I am also exploring my vocal range, as an advanced beginner, when it comes to singing. You’ll hear that on this track, as the song is in a higher register than I am used to singing in. The first vocal stanza is just me finding my voice. Hahahaha. (I guess I need to try some pre-singing.) The recorder works but isn’t in the key of the song, so I had to wing in, insofar as melodies. That is what I like about music, these little creative explorations that develop into ‘music’. I had about an hour or so to lay this down… Outside summer distractions have cut into my music time. Hope you are all well. Thanks for dropping by, Mark

First Keys

Famous J-POP[Wind]. 4Recrders arrangement.

Wind

Live recording of my set at StromWandlungSchall IV / Altes Schlachthaus Mosbach.

An improvisation on Paetzold contrabass recorder, processed by a Pure Data patch, together with a pre-recording of Ciat-Lonbarde Peterlin, table top guitar, samples of bells, and processed voice.

The piece is intended as a walk through a landscape of sounds, reflecting on the different meanings of "Wandlung" (transition/transformation/transfiguration/transsubstantiation).

Huge thanks to Thomas Breuer @vactrolog for organizing this fantastic event which showed the wealth of positions in electronic music!

Mosbacher Wandlung (Glückskeks) [Live at StromWandlungSchall IV]

Warm, folk-inspired tavern music featuring  Lute and Tenor Recorder

A Wayfarer's Refuge

Awaiting a loved one's return, especially when delayed at a far-away airport, brings a mix of anticipation, excitement, anxiety, and eventually, the comfort of reunited love.

Awaiting You - Recorder Duet

Adam Walton ‘Afal’ single release
Friday 26th September 2025
Whipcord Records

‘Afal’ is a brand new recording from north Wales songwriter Adam Walton.

‘Afal’ embraces the melancholy and colours of Autumn. It’s a flashback to annual late September foraging behind The Sportsmans Arms on the Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) when I was a teenager, lying on our backs and falling into the sky.

I broke down up there once, in the late 90’s or early 00’s, on the way to a Gruff Rhys gig. No signal on my clamshell mobile phone. I walked to the only habitation I could see… an isolated cottage defying the heather, to call the AA as night fell hard.

The skies up there are bigger and darker than most places, and while I waited for the AA van to arrive, orbs of light span and wheeled above me… eerie and beautiful.

I’ve never know what they were. 

This single has no connection to my previous album of the same name.

‘Afal’ is the Welsh word for ‘apple’. I munched through 12 of them recording the rhythm track. A doff of the cap to McCartney’s contribution to The Beach Boys’ ‘Vegetables’. I haven’t been able to eat another apple since.

‘Afal’ is on my new album ‘Burmo’ which I’m releasing on the 14th November on Whipcord Records.

‘The Silent Strings’ isn’t on the album. It’s a standalone b-side because I love standalone b-sides.

‘Afal’ - written, played and recorded by Adam Walton (published by Copyright Control).

‘The Silent Strings’ - written and played by Adam Walton (published by Copyright Control). Recorded by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr.

The Silent Strings

A soothing lullaby for a King lost in the Sea of Souls.

Mydeimos's Lullaby (HSR Mydei Fan Song)

A tale of frightened people attempting to fight people who are different than them. 

Hold A Flame

IG: Young_monstertmn
Youtube: @Youngmonstertmn
Elegyy Mixtape 10:10:25

To Już Nie To Samo

To Już Nie To Samo

The first (of 11) tracks in a new album called Miniatures for Harp and Recorders.

For this track the Bass Recorder (from the new Audio Modeling SWAM VariFlute app) is played by me using GeoShred.


Bass F Major

Miniatures for Harp and Recorders, 3 of 11.
BeatHawk Harp played by Piano Motifs.
Alto Recorder (from SWAM VariFlute) played by me with GeoShred.

Duet F# Mixolydian

"she asked how's your day?"
"just rolled up a grammy so i feel oki :)"

say no to drugs!

Miniatures for Harp and Recorders, track 5 of 11.
This track uses the Tenor Recorder (from the new Audio Modeling SWAM VariFlute app) and is played by me using GeoShred.

Tenor B Locrian

Miniatures for Harp and Recorders, 6 of 11.
BeatHawk Harp played by Piano Motifs.
Soprano Recorder (from SWAM VariFlute) played by me with GeoShred.

Duet F Minor

Miniatures for Harp and Recorders, track 8 of 11.
This track uses the Alto Recorder (from the new Audio Modeling SWAM VariFlute app) and is played by me using GeoShred.

Alto G Phrygian

Miniatures for Harp and Recorders, 9 of 11.
BeatHawk Harp played by Piano Motifs.
Bass Recorder (from SWAM VariFlute) played by me with GeoShred.

Duet F Phrygian Dominant

Composer / Conductor: Xing Yu
World premiere in Kraków, Poland

This piece is based on a calligraphic work Shu Pu.
Shu Pu (書譜, also translated as “A Narrative on Calligraphy”or “Treatise on Calligraphy”) is a representative Chinese calligraphic work by the Tang Calligrapher Sun Guoting. The work of about 3500 Chinese characters was written in 687AD and can be currently observed in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan[1]. However, whether this is the whole, part or the preamble of an unfinished work is still in debate.

XING YU - Grassschrift Nr. 1, für Blockflöte, Cembalo und Schlagzeug (revised in 2020)

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Cinematix covers and remixes of music from video games, animes, TV and films. Also compose original songs. Toronto girl, Hong Kong soul🧋

I love video games and making music / ゲームが好きな作曲家

Xing Yu (*1997)
Composer | Conductor,
-Publisher: Donemus Publishing.
-Composer in Residence in Hera Trio and Crown Mountain Trio based in Atlanta, USA.
-Master Composition: HfMT Hamburg, Germany. 
-Bachelor Composition: AMKP Kraków, Poland. 

“Sein Sinn für Farben und Effekte ist fantastisch” / “His sense of colors and effects is fantastic”
— — Justus Frantz

“The works of Xing Yu, despite his young age, are very original, interesting and mature. Each performance of his compositions is met with great enthusiasm by the audience. The composer is an extremely hardworking and reliable person, and his scores are refined down to the last detail. They are prepared very carefully and aesthetically, with attention to the smallest editorial details.”
— — Prof. Dr. Marcel Chyrzyński

    The compositions of Xing Yu are distinguished by a unique synthesis of Western avant-garde techniques and traditional Chinese aesthetics. His compositions have got premiered and performed in many concerts and festivals in many different countries including Germany, the USA, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Philippines, in concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kraków Philharmonic etc. 
    Since 2025, most of his compositions have been published by the publisher “Donemus Publishing” located in The Hague, Netherlands.
    Since 2025, he has been selected as a lecturer in music composition in Vienna Premier Music Academy in Vienna, Austria. 
    In 2025, he was a freelance lecturer in music theory for the students in preparatory courses from the “Franz Liszt Academy of Music/ Béla Bártok Conservatory” in Budapest.
    Since 2024, he has been invited to be the “Composer in Residence” in Hera Trio and Crown Mountain Trio based in Atlanta, USA! 
    In October 2024, his commissioned work “Die Kunst des Teufels Nr. 1” for violin, violoncello and piano was premiered in Carnegie Hall in New York City, USA by chamber ensemble Crown Mountain Trio(Trio-CMT). 
    In 2024, he dedicated his solo flute piece “Monologue” to his friend, Polish flutist Krzysztof Kaczka, and he also premiered this piece during his concert in Manila, Philippines in March, 2024, and later in the same year he performed this piece in Kranj, Slovenia. 
    He also joined the concerts during the 31st, 32nd, 33rd and 37th “Kraków international festival of composers” in Kraków, Poland, where his compositions such as “Swordsman”(2021) and “Die Kunst des Teufels Nr. 2”(2025) were premiered. 
    In 2022, he worked with Maestro Justus Frantz, as his concert assistant and conducting trainee in his orchestra “Philharmonie der Nationen” in Germany. 
    In 2018 his composition “Cursive Script No. 1/Grassschrift Nr. 1” was commissioned by concert for Warsztat Kompozytorsko-Wykonawczy in class of Prof. dr. hab. Tomasz Sobaniec in Kraków, Poland. He also performed this piece as a conductor during the world premiere concert. 
    He finished his music composition in Master degree in the University of Music and Drama Hamburg, Germany(HfMT Hamburg) in 2024. Before moving to Germany he finished his music composition in Bachelor degree in Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland(AMKP Kraków) in 2021 in class of Prof. dr. hab. Marcel Chyrzyński, and orchestral conducting with Tomasz Tokarczyk in Kraków opera house(Opera Krakowska) in Poland. He studied electroacoustic and computer music with Prof. dr. hab. Marek Chołoniewski and dr. hab. Mateusz Bień during the years in Poland. 
    His graduation music composition for Bachelor degree in Poland “The Painted Skin No. 2” for soprano, baritone and large chamber ensemble was premiered in May, 2021 in Kraków Philharmonic(Filharmonia Krakowska), and he finished his Master graduation concert in May, 2024 in HfMT Hamburg as both composer and conductor. Maestro Justus Frantz attended his Master graduation concert and commented: “His sense of colors and effects is fantastic”.
    The works of Xing Yu are very original, interesting and mature. Each performance of his compositions is met with great enthusiasm by the audience. In his compositions, he puts the main emphasis on sonority, attention to form, explores extended performance techniques and the perception of time is extremely important to him. He is focused on developing the combination between oriental concepts and European contemporary music. He is also doing his best to make the balance between the timbre and the concept of Asian cultures. However, he did it in his own individual way. 
    His scores are refined down to the last detail. They are prepared very carefully and aesthetically, with attention to the smallest editorial details.

[For enquiries about my BBC Radio Wales music show, please email my BBC email address... you can easily guess it. Music submissions for the show should be sent via the BBC Introducing Uploader (please). I can't guarantee that I'll see messages sent via Soundcloud - thank you.]

The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

Sefton have club. Hit thing with club. 

Somehow music happen when club hit thing.

Beautfiul when you think about it.

Humanitarian of the year nominee 2004. Donations welcome. 




*Day release courtesy of Capri Sonnet Records

Improvisations for recorders and electronics
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Releases:

Markus Reineke: "Was soll schon passieren" (pan y rosas discos)
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr271-markus-reineke-was-soll-schon-passieren/

Ashwood/Bourne/Holtz/Hoogeboom/Reineke: "We Trust You"
https://martinhoogeboom.bandcamp.com/album/we-trust-you

Reineke / Wilke: "Sun Chief Moccas" (Muteant Sounds)
https://muteantsoundsnetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/sun-chief-moccas

Reineke / Wilke: "Born in Nature (Graftings)" (arborescence records)
https://arborescencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/born-in-nature-graftings

Reineke & Matthies: "waves on shore" (darkpebble-bluewave)
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Hoogeboom/Reineke/Sanna: "Okapi"
https://martinhoogeboom.bandcamp.com/album/okapi

Markus Reineke & Paulo Chagas: "Machado Sketches" (Zpoluras)
https://zpoluras.bandcamp.com/album/machado-sketches

Reineke / Wilke: "KURGES" (Petroglyph)
https://archive.org/details/petroglyph381Reineke_Wilke-KURGES

Markus Reineke, Frank Wilke: "Dream Incorporation" (Haze)
https://hazenetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/markus-reineke-frank-wilke-dream-incorporation

Mapmaker who also does photography and graphic art, and is learning the alto recorder and music.

patience unveils the celestial symphony of destiny

(on all plats!!!)

Hey. I am a late bloomer musically. Initially I started on acoustic guitar, then within the last 4 years: Banjo, slide guitar, dobro, recorder, harmonica and singing.  Most of my songs are rough, unpolished, unpracticed, recordings made on an old laptop. Thank you for the love and support, the insights and ideas, the camaraderie and fellowship, Lammbone

Everything here is created, recorded and mixed on an IPad Pro using AUM.

I use GeoShred to play everything that is not generated or sequenced.

I also have some tracks on my YouTube channel

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