Written for amplified Kingma System bass flute and fixed media electronics, the essence of this composition is the expression of the human psyche constantly pondering over the significance of existence, searching for purpose and meaning in life and the act of living. Serving as the backdrop is the unmistakeable sound of breathing. Yet, while we all acknowledge the function of breathing as being essential to life, rarely do we pause to truly listen to it.

For The Sake of Being

Excerpt of Bandcamp album release

https://markusreineke.bandcamp.com/album/00-02-ab-wpt-e

. From the liner notes:

„00:02 ab Wpt.-E.“ is a piece for fixed media, contrabass recorder and live-electronics.

The fixed media is a collage (or a sonic landscape) comprised of mostly electronic sound sources (meta-stable states of a Peterlin, NIFX (no-input effects unit), a live-patched modular system, prepared table-top guitar, a field recorder left in the forest, and processed voice reciting time tables). The recorder part is improvised to a graphic score of collaged time tables. It is processed through live electronics emulating half-speed tape loop effects.


00:02 ab Wpt.-E. [Excerpt]

Parallaxe. Parataxe is an acousmatic composition that investigates syntactic construction through the juxtaposition of sonic moments in which the different synthesis processes used create pathways that shift in the timbral, spatial and spectral range. Thus the musical processes constantly change the point of view of the sound objects, creating an acoustic equivalent of the parallax phenomenon through their relationship to the artificial sound background that arises from the projection of the properties of the foreground figures and their timbral permutation.

Parallaxe.Parataxe

A modified version of one my prior NES 8-Bit pieces created in FamiTracker for solo double bass (or cello)to be performed live with 8-Bit accompaniment.

Double Bass performed by Aiden Harmon

Dungeon: for Double Bass And NES 8-Bit Fixed Media (2017)

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

Program Notes:

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (2021) was created in response to my observations of the general public’s lack of acknowledgment of the warnings for severe thunderstorm activity issued by the National Weather Service. This piece, composed entirely of audio radio from such warnings broadcasted via a NOAA weather radio, was designed to convey the many hazards and threats contained within these sudden thunderstorm events and enhance awareness of the actions that must be taken in order to minimize the impact to life and property. From my experience, individuals tend to find tornado warnings as far more significant when the threats contained within a severe thunderstorm can be equally as destructive and over a far larger area. To convey the message that tornados can be hidden within a severe thunderstorm without the specific “tornado warning” being issued, one can hear bits of mention of a tornado within the static and vocal cacophony of the final severe thunderstorm alter announcement.
This piece contains severe thunderstorm warning alerts mostly from the Western side of Michigan, thus the locations mentioned in the audio will be most familiar to those living on the lower West side of the state. Only the audio used from NOAA weather radio announcements was used in the creation of this piece.

Performance Notes

Severe Thunderstorm Warning is intended for performance in any venue on loudspeakers. For added impact, play the piece during the spring, summer or whenever your region is most likely to be impacted by severe weather.

Fixed media piece for NOAA Weather Radio recorded sounds with processing

Composed by: Weston M-A Bernath

Severe Thunderstorm Warning (2021)

Dr. Brad Meyer, percussion

"clear and calm pools of tremendous depth" is a phrase I found in the park map of Yellowstone National Park describing the park’s signature hot springs. When visiting the springs, I was struck by the vivid turquoise color of the water and how deep these springs went down; seeing the surface triggered my imagination about what the channel looked deeper into the earth. This piece depicts submerging oneself into the clear blue spring and sinking down into the bottom, hundreds or thousands of feet down. Improvisatory percussion grooves and gestures integrate freely with samples from hot springs, boiling water, mysterious, unidentified deep ocean sounds, and other found sounds from the park.

Video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQl2Yn_x8Q

clear and calm pools of tremendous depth

Szu-An Chen: Gemini for Piano and Fixed Electronic (2022)
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Program Note:

Sometimes, my thoughts jump around so rapidly that the body (or mouth) can't keep up. However, just when I am struggling to articulate one idea, another new thought unintentionally appears. It is disturbing.

In this piece, I used a piano and fixed electronics to simulate this phenomenon. The piano represents the body, and the fixed electronics represent jumping thoughts. At first, the two played the same material at the same time, but then the electronic sound went off track, becoming more and more staggered and finally gradually losing control...

Gemini for Piano and Fixed Electronic (2022)

I made this binaural piece using 5th Order Ambisonics format. The sound material was mostly borrowed from Ableton’s Operator synthesizer. 

Debris（binaural ver.）

Debris (stereo ver.)

Progetto di musica concreta, giocato (anche) sulla ripetizione ossessiva di camkpioni.
La parte strumentale, loops e droni,  è creata da Reaktor (Korrell ens.) 
Esempio paradossale di incomunicabilità in questa epoca di immediatezza, le voci registrate rappresntano quasi un grido di aiuto, perse nello spazio e nella totale anonimità..

A piece of concrete music, born (also) from the hypnotic persistence of repeating fragments.
Its instrumental  texture—loops and drones—unfolds through Reaktor (Korrell ensemble).
In an age that claims immediacy, it becomes a riddle of absence: voices suspended, neither near nor far, calling into somewhere—perhaps nowhere—until they fade into a quiet without name.

Hey IT's ME EES

Martin Evans is a UK-based pianist and composer. Having started his musical career as a session musician (pianist and arranger), Martin’s focus is now on composing in a variety of genres and include choral, instrumental, chamber, and orchestral pieces, some incorporating fixed media electronics.

Notable composition achievements include his setting of 'Sir Christemas' for SATB voices and piano which made it to the final selection of the BBC Radio 3 Carol Competition 2017. This led to a recording of the piece performed by the BBC Singers, broadcast on Radio 3: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05qrtyc

More recently, he was a finalist in the Charles Wood Composition Competition (2024), shortlisted in the Sir David Wilcocks Carol Competition (2023) and twice recognised in the Japan International Choral Composition Competition (2022 and 2024).

He is a fervent advocate for live music and performance art.

Music Theorist - Composer - Arranger - Audiophile - Teacher - Multidisciplinary Enthusiast

Ben Morris is a composer whose music tells unconventional stories and crosses genre boundaries. He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University.

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

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Nicola Cappelletti (ITA/FRA) is an electroacoustic sound artist, performer and composer. He focuses his artistic research on the relationship between acoustic sound and electronic processing in various expressive contexts of the contemporary arts, such as dance, visual arts, theater and poetry. He collaborates with numerous artists, performers and musicians in various fields of contemporary music.
As a performer his activity ranges from popular music, with forays into rock and club music, to concerts of radical improvisation for prepared instruments, concrete sounds and electronics. As a composer, his work has been presented at ICMC, SMC Conference, NYCEMF, Ars Electronica, Muslab, Atemporanea, Colloqui di Informatica Musicale, Lund Contemporary, Simultan Festival, Mantis Festival, Cantiere internazionale d’Arte of Montepulciano, Festival Nuova Consonanza, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Festival Orizzonti, Encode, Dancity. He is a member of the Opificio Sonoro ensemble directed by Marco Momi and he holds the chair of Electroacoustic Music Composition at the Conservatory of Music in Cuneo.

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