"Ledges Trail: the woman in the stone" brings us to the edge of choosing.  We can see the darkness, but not inside the darkness; we can conjure the roughness, the closeness, the coldness of the walls which will press into our skin if we enter.  We spend some time contemplating: this is not a room I'm usually brave enough to enter.  Moments of breeze brush our skin, bringing awareness of rich green tapestries that grow on the outside of the rocks.  Maybe follow the breeze instead?  After all, the trail is soft and decided under our feet, there are miles of soft mossy covers.  But the woman inside the stone fixes on us. Will we join her? She is not a pale fellow--her bruises are lambent despite the dark, and they are solidified. The cave under her face still stands, here in the same place. A moment of looking passes, and though there is no moon, (it is daylight!)--do I see my own form?  'And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you' --Nietzsche

Ledges Trail: the woman in the stone

exploring multiphonics on my 1.8 shakuhachi with some serious reverb.

Multiphonic Adventure

Electro-Lounge with reggae riddim with fluid middle eastern jazz sax.
Lyrics by Hypnomancer (David Stout) copyright 2024

I want a fat cake
I want a steal
I want that mama man
If you wanna deal?
   you wanna deal?
   you wanna deal?

I’ve got my country
I’ve got some jive
I’ve got some butter
… and I’m a
whipping it tonight.

I want a fat cake
I wanna steal
I want that mama man
If you wanna deal?
    you wanna deal?
do you wanna deal?

I’ve got my country
I’ve got some jive
I’ve got some butter
… and I’m 
whipping it tonight.

FAT CAKE

Multiphonic Demo: MA-1

Multiphonic Demonstration: MA-2

Multiphonic: SS1

An enjoyable, accessible piece for solo clarinet using extended clarinet techniques and Multi-phonics. The multi-phonics create a beautiful chorale that builds throughout the piece and defines the structure.

Big Dog

Carlos Bandera - Spirare III (2023) for saxophone quartet
Score follow video available here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJE9p5CLoM 

Performance by the Cerus Quartet, Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan, April 18, 2025.

Roberto Campa, soprano saxophone
Laura Ramsay, alto saxophone
Kyle Kato, tenor saxophone
Samuel Dishon, baritone saxophone


https://www.carlosbandera.com/

Spirare III (2023) for saxophone quartet (Cerus Quartet)

Seule is a suite of seven pieces for flute and alto flute by Heather Hindman, commissioned by Chenoa Anderson with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts as part of Anderson's "dystonic project”, which involved composing and workshopping flute pieces tailored to playing through chronic injury and illness. Recorded by Nicolás Arnáez at the Sound Studies Institute studio at the University of Alberta. For more information, visit https://www.chenoaanderson.com/dystonic

Seule (2024) Mvnt 2 - Revive - Heather Hindman

Created in Reaper. 

Primary synths used : CA2600, UVI Falcon, AAS Multiphonics CV-2, XLN XO.

Contains excerpts of 'I am the Edison Phonograph' (1906, CC1.0 Public Domain) and 'Cindy goes to a Party' (1955, CC1.0 Public Domain)

Mechanic Panic

Flutist Chenoa Anderson is a settler artist living and practicing in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan/Edmonton. She has commissioned and premiered dozens of solo and ensemble pieces, and is an active improviser who has worked with musicians, dancers, and spoken word artists. Current projects include UltraViolet - a mixed quartet; dystonic – collaborative work exploring lived experience with chronic injury and illness; Garden – multidisciplinary works set in her permaculture garden; Mixtur with composer Ian Crutchley (found objects); and damn magpies, a free improvisation sextet. She holds performance degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. In addition to her active performing and teaching career, Chenoa is the General Manager for New Music Edmonton; is on the board of the Canadian New Music Network; and is a Butterflyway Ranger volunteer for the David Suzuki Foundation.

Flutist-composer Bonnie McAlvin is captivated by multiphonics.  She was winner of the National Flute Association’s national convention performer competition and is known for her rare ability to play multiphonics—a technique somewhat akin to playing double-stops on a string instrument. Her 2015 video release, “Parallel Transformations” drew international attention for its use of multiphonics in a completely tonal context, and she is featured on the list of famous flutists of All About Flute.
 
Her recent film score, “My First Kiss and the People Involved” recently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where it was the top pick of the festival for the LA Daily News; the score received a grade of ‘excellent’ from The Hollywood Reporter.  
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Other recent commissions include Sandstone Peak, a work for the provocative pairings series of the Delaware-based chamber ensemble Melonamie, and Cherry Blossom, a solo flute work commissioned for a 2017 tour of Japan. Her works have been performed by members of the Cleveland Orchestra, members of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and world ragtime-piano champion William McNally.  Upcoming premieres include a work for the Chamber Orchestra of the Hamptons, Overlooking Hither Hills, a work for flute choir called "Flute Kids", and a work-in-progress for flute and piano called "And the joy will burn out the pain".

composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

Selected music & sound-art works by *Hypnomancer, (David Stout) - sonic artist, composer and songwriter. Hypnomancer is a musical shape shifter exploring the world of hybrid sound cultures blending a wide array of genres including ambient, noise, world fusion, alt-country, acid jazz, folktronica, underground hip-hop, IDM, Dub, experimental electronics, minimalism and other contemporary classical musics. His compositions, songs, and film scores are produced with a variety of instrumental approaches including, modular synthesizers, field recordings, folk instruments, generative AI and virtuosic guest instrumentalists.

Early Work:
His earlier works explored the fusion of electronic image synthesis, visual art, music and theatre. During this creative period Stout composed many scores for dance, theatre and film. Some of these works are presented here - see:  Red Sea Mix, Tracks to the Lair, Hermes' Devotion, Trio with Blade and Siege of Heaven.

David's more recent work includes live visual-music performance, generative animation, interactive video installations and music projects combining acoustic instruments with atmospheric electronics, noise and audio-visual transcoding techniques - see: NADA, Particle Chamber Variation, Reentry and Copter.

He is also a founding member of the group, MaDula Hara with healer-singer, Malia Luna. The duo, inspired by global shamanic traditions, is devoted to exploring the healing potential of sound through music, ceremony and ritual performance.

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* Hypnomancy is a powerful method of divination that occurs during sleep. The Hypnomancer can navigate non-ordinary states of consciousness while dreaming to gain knowledge and affect positive outcomes in the linear waking world.

Ken Walicki is an American composer who is widely recognized and acknowledged for his dramatic, and engaging music, which reflects the times in which we live. Because of his unusual and interesting background, his sound world has evolved into a unique combination of Art, Pop, Jazz, and World music. Walicki‘s influences include Gyorgy Ligeti, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, and much more. He was one of the first composers to use turntables in his music and the first composer to have turntables and a D.J. as regular members in a standing ensemble. His music has been performed throughout the world by, among others, the Kronos Quartet, ETHEL, the New Century Saxophone Quartet, the Soldier String Quartet, the Divan Consort, and members of the New York Philharmonic, The Los Angeles Symphony, The Los Angeles Chamber Symphony, The Detroit Symphony, The Pacific Symphony, the Istanbul Borusan Orchestra, and the SWR Kaiserslautern Orchestra. He is the composer-in-residence for the new music ensemble The Divan Consort. Walicki has received grants and commissions from a variety of organizations and performing ensembles including the American Composers Forum, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Kronos Quartet, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and Meet the Composer.
Growing up playing guitar in local Detroit garage bands, Walicki decided, at early age, he wanted to dedicate his life to music. His education included a two-year period in Germany as a Fulbright scholar where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, and Rolf Hempel. He was also an active participant in master classes with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and William Schumann. After returning from Germany, he studied with Jere Hutcheson at Michigan State University where he received his Ph.D. Walicki enjoys traveling and finds it to be a fantastic source of inspiration. After
spending a large amount of time in the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent, he has found these cultures to be particularly close to his heart. Together these experiences have made him a composer of diverse, accessible, physically, and spiritually moving, yet intellectually rigorous music. In addition to his music being presented in traditional concert music venues such as Lincoln Center in New York and the Liszt Academy in Budapest, his music has also been performed in new music clubs such as CBGB’s, the Knitting Factory, and countless cafes and storefronts throughout the world. Without compromising his values, he has made a point of writing music that relates to people and their situations. Walicki has collaborated with a variety of artists in the classical, pop, theater, film, and dance worlds, including Lydia Lunch, Dora Ohrenstein, the Doug Elkins Dance Company, Emmy winning producer/director Mark Obenhaus, American Opera Projects, Bermuda Triangle, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Kronos Quartet, Divan Consort, and Ensemble Green. He was the founder and composer of the Ken Valitsky Ensemble, which included Regina Carter and Thomas Chapin as members. Previously, besides being on the faculty at New York University, Walicki has taught composition in Istanbul, Turkey at the Center for Advanced Music Techniques(MIAM), a department of Istanbul Technical University. Currently, he lives in Southern California with his son, and the family dogs. His music is available on Knitting Factory Works, C.R.I., CRS Artists, Channel Records, Albany Records and Ravello Records.

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