Written for and performed by the Eco Ensemble
Directed by David Milnes
Recorded Live at the premiere on May 9, 2024
Hertz Hall in Berkeley, CA

Oboe. Bassoon. Horn. Timpani. 2 Violins. Viola. Cello. Bass

Overture for Overture: Amongst other reasons, the French spelling of Ouverture is employed in order to foreground its connotation with "opening" (ouvert-ure) in a more literal sense. Such a reading invokes a negative space in a continuity, a parting of the curtain, a rupturing moment in which resides any and all hope for a unity beyond that which separates. 

Widerklang is torn from another 'prologue to a prologue,' the dedication from Goethe’s Faust, the opening lines of which serve as an epigraph for Ouverture—"Widerklang:" “Ihr naht euch wieder,
schwankende Gestalten / Die früh sich einst dem trüben Blick gezeigt.” [You once again draw near, wavering forms / who first appeared before too-clouded eyes.] Meaning to “resound” or “echo,” Widerklang suggests a sound familiar to us, repeated and yet wholly changed in its form. It is further an homage to the Eco Ensemble, for whom the work was written.

Ouverture – "Widerklang"

"La Double échelle" (The Double Ladder), an opéra-comique in one act with music by Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896), premiered in Paris on 23 August 1837. Thomas's first opera produced, the work achieved notable success, playing for 247 performances before being dropped from the repertory. The story is a lighthearted farce involving two suitors using separate ladders to woo their beloved. Much is owed to Rossini and Auber here, not just in the subject but the music itself; the 26-year-old Thomas has not yet developed his original voice, but his masterful orchestration is already starting to materialize. The overture begins with a rustically elegant minuet, which gives way to a sinuous cello melody above pizzicato strings; brief recapitulations are followed by a jaunty Allegro carried through varied orchestral textures. World premiere recording. This orchestral realization was created using Finale 27 and NotePerformer 5.

Ambroise Thomas: La Double échelle (1837) - Ouverture

SISIA Overture

Nego_tiator×神宮要
THE BMS OF FIGHTERS 21 - GO BACK 2 YOUR ROOTS -
残響ルナリア虚構機構
BMS DL: https://manbow.nothing.sh/event/event.cgi?action=More_def&num=191&event=149

会場の諸君ごきげんよう。
いえすみません、こんにちは。Nego_tiatorです。
今回は神宮要さんの創作プロジェクト「SISIA PROJECT」をもとに曲を作ろう！ということになり、
序曲をイメージした曲を作りました！
中高時代にヘビロテしていた某エピックな詩人への想いが溢れた曲調になったかもしれません。
譜面の方もコロコロ傾向が変わって楽しい感じにできたのではないかと思います！
BGIについては後日追加予定です！お楽しみに…！

【 #BOF21 】 SISIA Overture

misterG of greenarrowradio chats with Colin Mochrie about the upcoming stops in Wisconsin with his comedy partner Brad Sherwood

colin mochrie

Event: THE BMS OF FIGHTERS 21 - GO BACK 2 YOUR ROOTS -
BMS: http://manbow.nothing.sh/event/event.cgi?action=More_def&num=357&event=149
Movie: https://youtu.be/r3OiiW4MO9c

Team Stone Arch Project
#BOF21 #event_bof

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Chapter 1 of 8

3148 AD, 400 years after the last great asteroid wiped out most of human civilization.
As it collided with the Earth, the face of the planet changed radically. Nature, as a whole, has disappeared. 
The last remnants of humanity must now hide underground; however, many starve and yearn to see the light of day.
Among them, young Aries dreams of climbing back to the lost world above, chasing a hope no one dares to name.

西暦3148年――巨大隕石が人類文明の大半を滅ぼしてから400年後。
地球にそれが衝突してから、惑星の姿は一変した。自然というものは、もはや存在しない。
生き残った人類の末裔たちは地下に身を潜め命を繋いでいるが、多くは飢えに苦しみ、陽の光を再び浴びることを渇望している。
その中で、若きアリエスは失われた地上世界への帰還を夢見ている――誰も口にしようとしない希望を追い求めて。

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Music: Lidelle
https://soundcloud.com/lidelle
https://twitter.com/dialgadu77

Vocals: eili + AKA
https://twitter.com/frenlize
https://twitter.com/AKAraxy

Lyrics: eili
https://twitter.com/frenlize

Movie / Cover: あるし
https://twitter.com/Arcre8

Story Writing: Vega
https://twitter.com/VegaLyrical

Character Design: Aamna
http://youtube.com/c/AamnaYT

【BOF21】Lidelle feat. eili + AKA - inurned nature

Program note:
"The Pit" is an opera that follows a lost man who at the outset of each act, climbs up from a pit to arrive at three different versions of reality. The first, is the back streets of a city at night, the second is a circus of robots, and the third, is the halls of the overlords, the powerful creatures pulling the strings of reality.

The music of the overture prefaces the first act, and is tragic in tone. There are three main parts, the climbing music, the city music, and the return of the opening clarinet theme. It opens with the clarinet presenting a fragmented melody that is extended and developed for the first large section of the overture. The second section is ushered in by the basses and represents the city. It has a pulsing sardonic quality. The strings are tense and the woodwinds laugh. Jokes are told in the clarinet and bassoon. This gives way to a tragic theme led by the low brass. After a brief pause, the work ends with a return to the opening clarinet material accompanied by the first violins.

Overture to "The Pit"
Daniel Zajicek, composer
Houston Civic Symphony
Brian Runnels, conductor

Friday, November 15, 2024 - Houston Christian University

Overture to The Pit

Please visit www.themusicofalexthode.com for more information.

Repertoire:
"Married Life" — Michael Giacchino
"Overture from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure" — Danny Elfman
"Children’s March" — Percy Grainger
"When She Loved Me" — Randy Newman
"Hunting Wabbits 2 (A Bad Hare Day)" — Gordon Goodwin

Percussion and sound design by Riley Warren

Commissioned by the Aubrey High School Marching Band (Aubrey, TX)

The Playground

"Gille et Gillotin", an opéra-comique in one act with music by Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896), premiered in Paris on 22 April 1874. Written in 1859 and originally entitled "Gillotin et son père", the work lay dormant until the Opera-Comique mounted a production 15 years later - over Thomas's objections. It was a failure, but this brief yet evocative overture stirs our imaginations immediately; fifes and drum intone a simple military theme which is eventually taken up by the full orchestra in masterful orchestration, replete with fanfares. World premiere recording. This orchestral realization was created using Finale 27 and NotePerformer 5.

Ambroise Thomas: Gille et Gillotin (1859) - Ouverture

What if a bedtime story became the illest mixtape ever made?

Fable

C412 - Drama - Overture

Daniel Zajicek is a composer and video artist. Most interested in beauty and the bizarre, his musical output consists of solo, chamber, choral, electronic, video, installation, operatic, orchestral, and theater music. Performances of his music have taken place throughout the United States, the Czech Republic, and the Far East-most notably at the International Computer Music Conference, the SEAMUS national conference, Diverse Works Flikerlounge, Society of Composers Inc., Imagine II, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival, Most Significant Bytes, Lewis University Bytes concert series, the NewTown Pasadena/SCREAM Sounding Images program, MusicAcoustic 2005: Mix (Beijing), the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Musica Nova, and the Mckinney Repertory Theater. He has been the recipient of the Bertha Mallard Scolarship for Music Composition, the Richard and Candice Faulk Composition Scholarship, the Merrill Ellis Memorial Composition Scholarship, and as a pianist, Daniel was given a scholarship from the National Federation of Music Clubs. Additional honors for his music have come from the Missouri State Music Teachers National Association, the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and ASCAP.
 
Video works by Daniel have been shown at Newtown’s Pop-Up films, Diverse Works Flickerlounge, 4D DREAM-a-thon, Sounding Images, and Most Significant Bytes, among others. His video Self Portrait is released on the first installment of Buffet DVD (buffetdvd.com).
 
Daniel holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City (BM Composition & BM Piano Performance), the University of North Texas (MM Composition), and Rice University (DMA Composition). He has taught music technology and music theory at Rice University, The Art Institute of Houston, and Collin County Community College. While at the University of North Texas, he served as audio/visual specialist for the College of Music and helped oversee the construction and operation of the College of Music Computer Lab Recording Studio.

George Papajohn (b. 1998 Milwaukee) is a composer, improvisor, and multi-instrumentalist currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His recent work engages with latent tensions of identity held within the material, historical, and phenomenological aspects of sound. 

His music has been performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble, and by frequent collaborators Cameron Roberts and Julia Ansolabehere. George earned his B.M. in music composition at the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music where he studied with Alex Mincek, Hans Thomalla, and Jay Alan Yim. He is currently pursuing a PhD in music composition at the University of California, Berkeley.

...for more recent music and updates, visit my website...

🎬  Music composer for film, series, and visual media.
Soundscapes blending orchestral, experimental, hip-hop, neo-soul, and electronic influences

Alex Thode (he/him) would first like you to know that not only is the “e” at the end of his last name not silent, but that he is also a composer and arranger most known for his work in the pageantry arts. He resides in Waukesha, Wisconsin with his cat, Buzz. An alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Alex composes and arranges for marching bands across the continental United States.

Alex's clientele have been Bands of America (BOA) Regional Champions and Finalists, UIL State Finalists and Area Champions, and WGI Winds World Champions, with Finalists in every classification. He has also had the privilege of having his arrangements performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Tournament of Roses Bandfest.

In addition to his compositions and arrangements for the pageantry arts, Alex also composes symphonic band and chamber percussion works.

In his free time, Alex enjoys watching movies and believing he’s a professional film critic, hiking and pretending that he’s athletic, traveling to National Parks — of which he’d eventually like to visit all — and acting like he’s Marco Polo, playing piano, guitar and a variety of kalimbas, and being with good company.

電子音やブレイクビーツやセブンスが好きです
I mainly compose VGM / Instrumental / DnB.

fragments of another reality
main → https://soundcloud.com/dialgadu77

artwork → https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/75888436

New tracks tagged #overture