get it here!

01. scattering, refracting, breaking

03. as a spectral riddim

05. we settle into stumbling lockstep

04. e através da poeira especular

New shasavic song, using theory by @l4mplight

AChyMyFumi; Pu-AChyriChymi; !-MyFumiZyPubdi 

Dócyval Cliälui

2025 Work 32

May 17, 2025 at The Secret Theater in Woodside, Queens NY. 
This piece was composed by Pat Muchmore for classical guitar quartet. 
It is a microtonal quartet with each guitar being tuned a quarter tone away.

Hyperoperator 5- Pat Muchmore

MicroWAV

"Selenetrope" is a short study on bow nuance and timbral shading. Composed over three days during the 2025 Darmstadt Summer Courses in close collaboration with violinist Karl Jõrgi, the miniature explores fragile, unstable materials at the threshold of sounding. I want to express my gratitude to Karl for his fantastic collaboration and sensitive playing, and to mentors Rebecca Saunders and Sarah Saviet for both creating the environment for this collaboration as well as providing guidance on detail and notation.
-- HAB

*Headphones recommended; any background noise is part of the Darmstadt Experience.

31 July 2025
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Karl Jõgi, violin

Selenetrope (2025, world premiere)

A multi-movement track meant to represent Jupiter and the four Galilean Moons. 

Jupiter

Indie variety producer. Experiments with microtonality.

Hannah A. Barnes (b. 1997) is a Montréal-based composer and conductor. In her compositions, she crafts structured yet dynamic and multi-faceted musical worlds that are characterized by mercurial, off-kilter, and seemingly incompatible materials. These works straddle tension and expression for both performers and listeners. Barnes' main concerns are (re)defining Modernism in the twenty-first century, investigating manifestations of complexity and polyphony, and addressing questions of syntax and semantics within a non-narrative musical language that encompasses both pitch- and noise-based materials.

Barnes completed two degrees in composition from DePaul University (MMus w/Distinction ’21, BMus High Honours ’19). She is currently a DMus student at McGill University studying composition with Prof. Philippe Leroux. She has completed additional studies in conducting at both DePaul with Michael Lewanski, as well as currently at McGill with Prof. Mélanie Léonard. 

Collaboration is central to Barnes’ compositional practice. She has worked closely with myriad musicians, including oboist Kyle Bruckmann, guitarist Jesse Langen, violinist Jennifer Gersten, hornist Tarre Nelson, vocalist Joanna Mieleszko, percussionist Alexandre Garde, pianist Ian Pace, duos Garden Unit and Flannau Duo, and the brass musicians of Ensemble Musikfabrik. Her works have been performed by programs including the DePaul and Dal Niente Summer Residence for New Music (2020), the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (2021), the Yarn/Wire Summer Institute (2022), Omaha Under the Radar Festival (2022), the Darmstadt Summer Courses (2023, 2025), the Musikfabrik Virtual Brass Academy (2025), and Impuls Academy (2025), as well as at various venues in Illinois, California, New York, Florida, Kansas, Western Australia, the United Kingdom, and Québec.

Barnes’ work for oboe and electronics, “Dis/inte/gration” (2019, rev. 2020) was recorded by Kyle Bruckmann and included on his album of rivers, released March 2024. Her debut album, Negative Capability: Works by Hannah A. Barnes, was released in December 2024, and includes performances by Ensemble Dal Niente, Kyle Flens, Jesse Langen, Garden Unit, and DePaul University’s Ensemble 20+. Her work has been acknowledged in the Chicago Reader and “Best of Bandcamp,” selected in calls for scores in the United States, Canada and Austria, played on impulsradio (Graz/Helsinki), and awarded an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer’s Awards honourable mention for her work “five images.”

Hannah founded the "rhythm is image" new music initiative after being struck by the inexplicable and insatiable desire to perform Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie I in 2019. She has a special interest in organizing, conducting, and performing in concerts, focusing on experimental performance practice and advocating for “difficult” music. rhythm is image has performed as parts of concert series and festivals in Chicago, Montréal, Omaha (Nebraska), and Fayetteville (Arkansas).

Hannah is also a devoted educator. She has taught theory and aural skills to high schoolers at the Chicago Music Academy (2022-23) and students at DePaul University (as Lecturer of Music Theory from 2021-23), and McGill University (as Lecturer of Music Theory, 2024). While at McGill, she served as president of Le Vivier InterUniversitaire and the McGill Association of Student Composers, and Vice President of the Music Graduate Student Society. She was a Writing Fellow through the Graduate Writing Centre in 2024-25, where she developed and implemented initiatives to support Schulich School of Music graduate students with their written academic milestones.

Barnes currently lives in Montréal with her terrier Kaylee, and maintains a strong connection to her roots in Chicago. Her compositional practice is fuelled by strong coffee, postmodern literature, and Pilates.

☨ You won't survive the Second Cosmocide ☨

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

My name is Pascual Araujo, I'm a classical guitarist/arranger from Barranquilla, Colombia based in Queens, NY. I play solo guitar repertoire, chamber music & experimental new music

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