On a recent visit to Rome I saw the angel studies of Gian Lorenzo Bernini displayed in the Vatican Museum: five preparatory models made from clay and straw around frames of twisted iron and cane. They still show remarkable detail even though the passage of time has crumbled much of the clay, leaving the metal frames exposed in places. Whilst some parts remain perfectly intact other aspects have now gone, leaving us only able to imagine how they might have looked when complete. In their current form they portray simultaneous processes of growth - since we are able to understand how Bernini created them, and their role in his creative process – but also their evident decay.

My piece is cast in five short, contrasted movements (the five angels, perhaps?), played without a break, and in each I’ve tried to capture something of the fragile incompleteness of the Bernini, and the simultaneous presentation of growth and decay. Each movement begins with a single idea to which other layers are added, but the original idea remains present throughout, serving as the frame around which the structures have been built. Towards the end of each movement the music subsides (or decays) to a single musical idea once again, but not necessarily the one with which it began. 

The five movements overlap slightly to form a continuous musical span in which the senses of decay and re-growth become part of the same process, and (in movements two and four) the added layers deliberately suggest a sort of baroque melodic movement to make the connection with Bernini more tangible in the music’s content, though the notes are entirely my own and there is no quotation of earlier music here.

Anatomy Of Angels

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A collection of original music that I have produced/co-produced, engineered, mixed, and licensed for various media projects. The majority of this music is available to license for a fee, please contact me directly to inquire.

CHAMBER Music Reel

Song: TEMA DELLA FORESTA DI ARDEN
Album: COME VI PIACE (2016)

Original music by Dario Buccino for the theatre play "Come vi piace" by William Shakespeare
Translated, adaptated and directed by Leo Muscato
A Teatro Stabile di Torino production

Dario Buccino, acoustic guitar

Recorded live at Teatro Carignano, Torino, by Claudio Tortorici
Mixed by Federico Calvara at Noise Factory

Photo by Alfredo Tabocchini
Graphics by Nicola Cioce

Come vi piace (2016) [Album] | 2. Tema della foresta di Arden | Solo acoustic guitar

Sunday 6 October 
Auditorio Martín Códax
Vigo, Spain

VERTIXE SONORA: Karen Yu, David Rodríguez, Pablo Paz y Diego Ventoso, percusión | Iván Ferrer-Orozco, electrónica e video.

Program Notes:

Vértice (Vertex) is the point where two lines meet; an apex is the highest point of something, often expressed as a point atop a geometrical form; and vertigo is characterized by a sensation of whirling, which means rapid circular movements, and dizziness. In this piece, a frenetic exploration of guiro and harp glissando effects (often forming a vertex at the apex of up and down motion) in keyboard instruments, and samples of inside a harpsichord, materialize into machine-like waves and clouds of vertiginous sound.

This piece is composed for Vertixe Sonora ensemble.  


Vértex / Ápex / Vértigo

At My Pace by Logan Larson and Logarhythmic Collective. Track 4 of 17 on "The Monster You Made".

Performed by the core trio of Logarhythmic Collective: Logan Larson; Voice, Benjamin Morris; Saxophone, and Thomas McKee; Trombone.

Logarhythmic Collective’s core trio of voice, saxophone, and trombone are on full display for At My Pace. BPM is what gives the integrity and mood for specific EDM subgenres. At My Pace pushes the boundaries of changing tempo and exploring different subgenre inspirations throughout the work including: Future Bass, Dubstep, Glitch Hop, and Drum and Bass.

At My Pace

Wēpan (2014)
From the old English, wēpan means to weep, bewail, mourn over, or deplore.


Tina Davidson, Wepan

Song: CANZONE DI JAQUES
Album: COME VI PIACE (2016)

Original music by Dario Buccino for the theatre play "Come vi piace" by William Shakespeare
Translated, adaptated and directed by Leo Muscato
A Teatro Stabile di Torino production

Dario Buccino, six-string ukulele

Recorded live at Teatro Carignano, Torino, by Claudio Tortorici
Mixed by Federico Calvara at Noise Factory

Photo by Alfredo Tabocchini
Graphics by Nicola Cioce



Come vi piace (2016) [Album] | 9. Canzone di Jaques | Solo six-string ukulele

In the United States, the trumpet is power. It leads jazz parades and bids farewell to fallen soldiers, plays in marching bands, mariachi groups, and on university campuses. Both John Williams and Duke Ellington wrote concertos for trumpet and orchestra; it also plays an important role in Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question and Aaron Copland’s Quiet City. This instrument, associated with many traditions, has a much higher status in the New World than in Poland or other countries of the Old Continent. Hence the choice of repertoire for the album and the limitation to composers from the United States, as Aleksander Kobus, the originator and protagonist of the recording, pointed out in a conversation with me.
(...)
The selection of only North American composers ensures a high level of coherence for the album, showing different facets of Neoclassicism and tonality in contemporary music. From the aforementioned classic Stevens, through representatives of the middle generation – Joseph Turrin, Bruce Broughton or Vizzutti and Ewazen – to the youngest in this group, Kevin McKee. All of them contribute to maintaining the continuity of the North American repertoire, which has long been an important point of reference for the Polish trumpeter and his wife.

Jan Topolski transl. Anna Marks

ACD342-Track08-Cascades

ACD342-Track01-Fandango

Logan Larson, Classical Composer and EDM Producer

Composer, performer, teacher and designer of musical instruments.

His training includes composition studies at the Milan Conservatory, musical analysis and electronic music at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan, advanced courses in Europe, studies in the field of theatre and performing arts.

His works combine music composition, performance art, sound sculpture, and have been presented in Europe, the United States, China.

In the early 1990s he created the HN System® for the composition of physical, mental, emotional performative processes.

In 1994 he was a lecturer at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he presented the HN System, defined by Heinz-Klaus Metzger as «the most surprising artistic invention of the last 15 years».

He designed the HN Percussion®, musical instruments that involve the performer’s entire body.

He conducts workshops at conservatories and universities.

His music is the subject of academic papers, theses, documentary films.

Finnish composer, producer, writer and visual artist, focused mainly to algorithmic processes, computer-assisted composition, and various other methods based on cybernetics, chaotic dynamics and stochastic systems, among others. Most programs written by author, various languages. 

Studied musicology at University of Helsinki, computing at OU, Milton Keynes, private studies in composition. Musical genres, from avant-garde/postminimal chamber music to minimal techno, wonky/noskool, IDM, electronica, ambient, experimental. 

music producer // audio engineer // songwriter

David Lancaster is a composer based in York (UK).  Originally from Wigan, David studied music at the University of York, and was for three years RVW Composer in Residence at Charterhouse.  During that time he won several awards for composition and enjoyed a number of high profile performances.  Following a long period of silence he returned to composition in 2007 and his music has been subject to a dramatic simplification of style in a search for greater clarity of form and expression.  

In November 2013 his Strata was given its first performance by the Orchestra of Opera North; it was recorded for CD by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra (under Mikel Toms) in June 2015.
In 2014 David’s Vertigo string quartet was performed in Hong Kong and at the Aspen Festival, Colorado and his large-scale choral work Apocalypse - which tells the story of the end of the world as depicted in York’s medieval stained glass - was given its premiere by The 24 conducted by Robert Hollingworth during York’s Festival of Ideas.  (Earlier this year Apocalypse was revived by the Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble at three concerts in Copenhagen and was broadcast by Danish Radio).

In 2015 the quintet Strike was performed in Hong Kong and York and the saxophone quartet Swan was revived in London by the Lunar Sax Quartet.  Premieres included Batubulan for solo piano, Art of War for soprano, oboe and bass trombone, and Public Order for concert band and tape.

His violin solo Rough Cut has been published by UYMP and received its first London performance in February 2016 given by Peter Sheppard-Skaerved; in July Late Music will present the premiere of Breathless, composed for the Orichalcum Brass Quintet. 

In 2016 he completed PhD in Composition at the University of York with Roger Marsh.

Dr David Lancaster is Associate Professor of Composition at York St John University, and is Artistic Director of York's Late Music concert series.

www.davidcomposer.com

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