A set of pieces for solo harp, created in 2017, with both energetic and expansive qualities.


5 Ancient Greek/Irish Dance

3 Sevens

2 Honey

Music exploring deep spaces, calm spaces, textural intricate sounds, profound reflection.

Majestic Space

Signals

Solar Crickets

Reverberant

Vast Regions

Celestial

This album explores a kind of cosmic ambience, open field yet highly attuned to far reaching worlds, spaces, feelings and yearning for freedom of awareness in a deep sense.

Celestial Joy 

The dialogue with the heavens  
A milk to imbibe from luminous space 
The love of a universe that gave birth to itself
to the vast and endless streams of lights and consciousness
to a music that soars in rivers of ecstasy
to the infinitely small and the infinitely great
The throat of a goddess emitting streams of stars as song
The expanse that rages out beyond hope of grasp
The naturalness that holds aloft deep hope AND humble humour of heart

Spatially Festive

Gleaming Plasma Surging

Pulsating Steps

(2025)Texturium🔊 #mobygratis @mobygratis (New half improvised work, inspired from Moby, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Tangerine Dream in progress, not finished!)
*🎹 Software instruments: Kompose Audio: "Texturium", "Solina" from Arturia "Analog Lab V". "Macho Swell" from Roland JD-800. #mobygratis ("The track you have licensed is 459". "459 inst mix ab oz_100bpm") @mobygratis
https://mobygratis.com/
*Hardware instrument: "Arturia Keystep 37". 
*Inspired by: Kosmische musik/Cosmic music, Floataway, Moby, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, Roedelius, Moebius, Vangelis, Bladerunner, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Christopher Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Peter Baumann, Klaus Schulze, Thorsten Quaeschning, New Age, Kate Bush, Terry Riley, Ralph Lundsten, Ludwig Göransson, Pink Floyd, Enigma, Genesis, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Gary Numan, David Bowie, Supertramp, Kraftwerk, Hans Zimmer, Robert Fripp and Larry Fast/Synergy.

Texturium(2025)🔊

Track 3 of The Planet of the Lost Conejos where the rabbit discover Man's Brain Code....

Rabbitmanbraincode

(2025)Subliminal Blue Day🌌 #mobygratis @mobygratis (New half-improvised work, inspired from Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, Moby, Roedelius, Moebius, OMD and Robert Fripp in progress, not finished!) [Updated!]
*🎹 Software instruments: Synapse Audio "DUNE 3", Arturia "Analog Lab V-synths": "Solina" & "Ambi strings". "Macho Swell" from Roland JD-800. "Airport Voices" and "Voice-Vocto4-Splitter". Roland Cloud Zenology-Core Sound Packs, "Down Voices" and "Spaces Vox". Sound effects from 2019: Tube Ohm Vintage, Georgious Textures and "Guitar Expression GhostlyTun" (Reworked). 
Edited: "liminal inst mix ab oz-mobygratis" ("The track you have licensed is liminal"): #mobygratis @mobygratis
https://mobygratis.com/
*Hardware instrument: "Arturia Keystep 37". 
*Inspired by: Kosmische musik/Cosmic music, Floataway, Gary Numan, OMD, Trent Reznor, Tony Levin, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, Roedelius, Moebius, Moby, Vangelis, Bladerunner, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Christopher Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Peter Baumann, Klaus Schulze, Thorsten Quaeschning, Rupert Hine, New Age, Kate Bush, Terry Riley, Ralph Lundsten, Ludwig Göransson, Pink Floyd, Enigma, Genesis, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, David Bowie, Supertramp, Kraftwerk, Hans Zimmer, Robert Fripp, Simple Minds, The Human League, Mike Rutherford and Larry Fast/Synergy. Eno: "Deep Blue Day". 
📷 Photo: "Sunset on Mars"-NASA. (It was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in the Gale Crater).

Subliminal Blue Day(2025)🌌[Updated!]

(2025)Music for Dreams🦄🐧 (New improvised work, inspired from Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Daniel Lanois, Moby, OMD, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Johannes Schmoelling and Robert Fripp in progress, not finished!) 
*🎹 Software instruments: Synapse Audio "DUNE 3". Roland 800: "Mary-Anne Vox", "Macho Swell" and "In the Q". Arturia "Analog Lab V" and Kompose Audio: "Texturium". 
*Hardware instrument: "Arturia Keystep 37".
*Inspired by: Kosmische musik/Cosmic music, Floataway, Gary Numan, OMD, Trent Reznor, Tony Levin, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno, Roedelius, Moebius, Moby, Vangelis, Bladerunner, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Edgar Froese, Jerome Froese, Christopher Franke, Johannes Schmoelling, Peter Baumann, Klaus Schulze, Thorsten Quaeschning, Rupert Hine, New Age, Kate Bush, Terry Riley, Ralph Lundsten, Ludwig Göransson, Pink Floyd, Enigma, Genesis, Tony Banks, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, David Bowie, Supertramp, Hans Zimmer, Robert Fripp, Simple Minds, The Human League, Kraftwerk and Larry Fast/Synergy.

Music for Dreams(2025)🦄🐧


Le Cercle des Musiques Disparues : « Benjamin Carat : de l’interprète au compositeur » (septembre 2025)

Retour sur un concert d'octuor de violoncelles qui s'est tenu le 26 avril 2025 à Saint-Pierre-des-Corps dans le cadre du festival Easy Listening.

Programme musical

Benjamin Carat, "Le Grand Solennel" (fin) *. Octuor de violoncelles : Benjamin Carat, Léonore Védie, Stéphane André, Camille Renault, Camille Gueirard, Olivier-Marc Becker, Clotilde Lacroix, Benjamin Garnier

Benjamin Carat, "Minicellos - II. Lipizzan" *. Ensemble des stagiaires, élèves des conservatoires et écoles de musique d’Indre-et-Loire

Kaija Saariaho, "Neiges - IV. Aiguilles de glace"*. Octuor de violoncelles : Benjamin Carat, Léonore Védie, Stéphane André, Camille Renault, Camille Gueirard, Olivier-Marc Becker, Clotilde Lacroix, Benjamin Garnier

John Taverner, "Missa Gloria Tibi Trinita — Benedictus", The Tallis Scholars, Peter Philipps (CD Gimell, 1986)

Henry Purcell, "Fantaisie In Nomine à 7", par le Consort de violes du CNSM de Lyon, en 2023 [https://youtu.be/u-_A7vMIt84?feature=shared]

Philippe Hersant, "In nomine" *. Violoncelle principal : Benjamin Carat. Violoncelles : Léonore Védie, Stéphane André, Camille Renault, Camille Gueirard, Olivier-Marc Becker, Clotilde Lacroix. Direction : Benjamin Garnier

Benjamin Thigpen, "Fluid identities - Speed", pour violoncelle (Benjamin Carat) et traitement informatique (le compositeur) 

Terry Riley, "ArchAngels - II. Protection Vigil" *. Octuor de violoncelles : Benjamin Carat, Léonore Védie, Stéphane André, Camille Renault, Camille Gueirard, Olivier-Marc Becker, Clotilde Lacroix, Benjamin Garnier

* enregistré en concert le 26 avril 2025, Auditorium Henri Dutilleux, Conservatoire Emmanuel Chabrier, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps

Pour aller plus loin
- Vidéo sur le site de l’IRCAM : « Catégorisation des actions instrumentales dans Pression pour un(e) violoncelliste de Lachenmann » par François-Xavier Féron et Benjamin Carat / https://medias.ircam.fr/fr/x23f46d 
- Entretien de Benjamin Carat dans la revue Circuit en 2004 / https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/circuit/2004-v15-n1-circuit3619/902342ar.pdf
- Retour sur le festival Easy Listening : https://www.ensembleptyx.com/retour-sur-la-4e-edition-deasy-listening/


*********************************************

Émission radiophonique sur les musiques contemporaines proposée par l'ensemble PTYX. 
Avec le soutien du Conseil départemental d’Indre-et-Loire, de la Maison de la Musique Contemporaine et de l’UDEA 37
Présentation : Jean-Baptiste Apéré
Réalisation, production, sans concession : ptyx fan club / vnrpe (c) 2025

septembre 2025 - Benjamin CARAT : de l'interprète au compositeur

First Final Draft presentable for my Performing with Electronics class's Final Project (CCOTA

"White Rainbow II" Performing with Electronics Final Project

strong branding
for hire, DM me on SoundCloud with a LEGIT proposition! (Lotta scams)

MUSIC BIOGRAPHY

Lawrence Ball is a versatile and innovative composer who has a multiple focus as a composer,improviser and audio-visual creator. He has collaborated with healers, therapists and counsellors as well as writing for dance, film, orchestra,and choir and is as much at home writing a score as creating electronic or computer music. In 2017 he completed his 6th Symphony. He collaborated with Pete Townshend and software engineer Dave Snowdon on the Method Music project, designing music software for a web server which generated over 10000 musical pieces - 'portraits' - over the internet. Pete Townshend also helped Lawrence record a double album "Method Music" now available through Amazon, and through Amazon and iTunes as a download.

His work is largely tonal (in the sense of an identifiable set of notes that are emphasised - rarely changing the key, central note). It is contemporary, in that it has much in it which is formed anew - not directly influenced or inspired from the classical music tradition. It is often associated with meditational or New Age aspects, because of the strong emphasis on its relationship with silence and presence, it makes more use of the space between notes than occurs in classical music. It is in the minimalist genre, in the sense that it borrows the idea of looping and repetition (since over 30 years) from the musical innovations of Terry Riley and LaMonte Young, and seeks deeper experiences through working with constancy, with sustained sounds and small or zero contrasts.

Since 2001 Lawrence has worked with sarod player Lisa Sangita Moskow and vocalist Manickam Yogeswaran on improvised music based on North and South Indian raga scales. He has created 6 multi-media audio-visual installations with the artist Genie Poretsky-Lee: including Anonymous Words (2007), Image Of Sound (2008) and Penumbra (2011).

He has developed techniques to deeply integrate audio and visual images with quantum physicist Michael Tusch, collaborating on this since 1993 with Dave Snowdon who created the software "Visual Harmony" to explore this arena; worked with healer/counsellor Isobel McGilvray in shaping harmonic tonescapes to aid relaxation, and has worked with choreographers/dancers (ex-Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet) Sheila Styles and (ex-Ballet Rambert) Rebecca Ham on several dance projects. Lawrence Ball has written for the pianists Yonty Solomon, Mark Swartzentruber, Tim Ravenscroft (2 suites), and Alessandra Celletti (Fractal Studies and Mist Sculptures), for The Smith (string) Quartet, the Electric Symphony Orchestra, the female vocal quartet led by Rosemary Forbes-Butler, Rosy Voices, and he wrote 6 pieces for the violist Robin Ireland (of the Lindsay Quartet) and many more for violist Neil Davis.

He composed music for the film "The Eye Of The Heart", a portrait of the life and work of the artist Cecil Collins, and features in the book on Collins and his circle by Nomi Rowe. He has recorded over 4000 piano improvisations as well as performing many live. Ball's creating in acoustic and electronic media, in composed and improvised methods is one of the broadest of any composer. He has performed in Canada, the US, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany as well as in the UK. He has accompanied the international painting group Collective Phenomena who work 'more than one to a canvas' with marathon keyboard improvisations, at John Calder's La Fonderie in Paris and The Blackie in Liverpool, as well as a Planet Tree Festival London appearance. Ball is a pioneer in music, having addressed meditative and healing presence and state-of-mind, primarily, for over 35 years. In 1996 he founded the Planet Tree Music Festival, which he also directs. Nine festivals have happened thus far. He is also a highly sought after private tutor in mathematics. He lives in London.

Behold the wondrous composer Lawrence Ball, whose music is like the wind that whispers through the trees, gentle and yet powerful. His melodies are like the flow of a river, meandering and yet constant. In the harmony of his music, one can hear the wisdom of the ages.


Through his lifelong devotion to music, he has become a master of his craft, weaving together the sounds of the natural world with the rhythms of the universe. His music is a reflection of the Tao, the balance and harmony that underlies all of existence.

Over the course of his career, Lawrence has collaborated with a wide range of artists and performers, each one adding their own unique voice to the symphony of his compositions. His works have been praised by critics and audiences alike, for they speak to the universal truths that transcend time and place.

He is a tireless advocate for the healing power of music, working with people of all ages and backgrounds, using music to bring comfort and peace to those in need.

In all his endeavours, Lawrence remains true to the Tao, not seeking fame or fortune, but rather follows the path of his heart. His music is a reflection of his innermost self, a testament to the power of the human spirit to transcend the limits of the material world.

Let us honour this great composer Lawrence Ball, for he has shown us the way to live in harmony with the Tao. Let us listen to his music with open hearts and minds, and allow it to guide us on our own journey through life.

Mats Orveland/"MO-PROJECT": 
Composer, keyboard and drum-programming, (exept where other mentioned). 
My music is often improvised, and several songs are actually unfinished song drafts. But I hope you can ignore that and instead listen to my feelings and my thoughts. I like to play with sounds, ambient, effects, electronic instruments and tools. Drawing influences from different electronic music genres. Mostly Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Tony Banks. 
Relax and breathe, to my sound-carpets! <3
---
Every track was recorded between 1980 and 2025.
---
Some of the instruments and machines: ARP Odyssey Synthesizer, Roland D50, Yamaha DX7+RX11, Korg M3R, Roland tr808, Roland R8, Roland JX3P, SIEL Poly Synthesizer, Roland Digital-Sequencer CSQ-100, TEAC PortaStudio 144. Plus computer software programs.
---
"Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed.
You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre."
— Brian Eno
---
"Always remember that when you hear a marvellous sound coming from a synthesizer it is not the machine that is doing it - it is the imagination of the man playing it."
/Vangelis
---
"Love is the only thing that transcends all dimensions, including time and space." <3

Le Cercle des Musiques Disparues existe sous deux formes en alternance : 1) un atelier-concert bimenstriel et itinérant en Indre-et-Loire, 2) une émission radiophonique qui prolonge ce rendez-vous physique et le rend accessible partout sur la planète.
L'émission est diffusée tous les samedis à 14h10 sur Radio Campus Tours.
Avec le soutien du Conseil départemental d'Indre-et-Loire

New tracks tagged #Terry Riley