La curiosité de Violaine Cochard est maintenant légendaire, mais quand s'y ajoute la grâce d'une rencontre inattendue, le résultat fait des étincelles!
C'est sur le plateau de l'émission d'Arièle Butaux "Un mardi idéal" que la claveciniste rencontre le compositeur et pianiste de jazz Edouard Ferlet.
Invités à improviser, ils trouvent spontanement terrain d'entente autour du grand Bach.
Le résultat?
Une merveille de fantaisie et de liberté où le clavecin vibrant de Violaine Cochard trouve dans les couleurs du piano d'Edouard Ferlet le compagnon idéal pour offrir aux tubes du compositeur une nouvelle et inaltérable jeunesse.
Le Cantor s’ébroue comme sorti d’un bain de jouvence.

A La Suite de Jean ©Edouard Ferlet

Tratto da "La Giuditta" di Alessandro Scarlatti (1693), libretto del Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.

Ascari: voice, Moog Minitaur, Hologram Electronics Microcosm
Antonello Manzo: baroque cello

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Dormi o fulmine di guerra

Performed by Michael Pisaro and the Dog Star Orchestra
July 1st 2015, Los Angeles.
Commissioned by a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble

Fugitive Counterpoint #1

Angharad Davies | violin
Tisha Mukarji | piano
Recorded at Ausland, Berlin|2011

The track is taken from the album Quarrtsiluni, released digital on Lamour Records, September 30th 2016
http://www.lamour.se/2016/09/30/lisa-ullen-nina-de-heney-duo-quarrtsiluni/

”Quarrtsiluni" is an Inuit term refering to a state of deep silence in which one sits together and waits until something is ready to burst.  It's about the ancestor belief that all songs came from that deep silence. Their songs would come to the human consciousness as bubbles from oceanic depths.

This awaiting was done in the dark, and this was how their songs were born, admonishing in a common creative state maybe the spirit of the Great Whale; rituals unknown by us. Yet known;  beyond the remembered.

The six tracks on this digital album are about the collective human experience of listening and then expressing what has to be expressed. Therefore: songs, not pieces; songs from the core of silence, born in the same space of the unsung. The unsung that has to become a song in it's own thriving necessity, burst-born.

Six improvised songs burst into the light of Studio Epidemin in June 2015 when this trio gathered a crop of sounds, rythmes and notes, maybe admonishing the spirit of an invisible great whale whose deep oceanic song then surfaced.

 The Lisa Ullén-Nina de Heney duo has in the past 10 years established itself as one of the most distinctive groups within the improvised scene in Europe, here joined by the astonishing avant-garde Swiss artist and musician Charlotte Hug on the alto violin.

Quarrtsiluni

Lisa Ullén-Nina de Heney duo feat Charlotte Hug - Song three

A live recording of Michael Pisaro's "asleep, desert, choir, agnes" (2016) for 22 musicians and 2-channel electronics, written for the University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop. The concert took place on September 20, 2016 at the 701 Center for Contemporary Art in Columbia, SC.

asleep, desert, choir, agnes (2016)
Michael Pisaro

University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop
Greg Stuart, director

Adam Bailey, Amanda Ferguson,Colby Hesseltine, 
Anna Kulangara, Kelsey Lantz, David Long, Jeremy Martinez, 
Clayton Mims, David Munn Carstensen, Belvin Olasov, Neema Patel, 
Jessica Rotheiser, Bailey Seabury, Justin Stombler, 
Joelle Strom, Nathan Wichmann; percussion/voice

Michelle Beck, horn
Brian Bethea, saxophone
Michael Pisaro, electronics/electric guitar
Philip Snyder, flute
Greg Stuart, percussion/melodica
Emily Stumpf, flute

Recording: Jeff Francis

Program Note:
Agnes Martin called a significant series of paintings from 1997 With My Back to the World.  By “the World” I think she meant what we sometimes call the “real world” – of commerce and the art market, of social life and family, of media and entertainment. But there are multiple worlds, and those paintings are emissaries from another world: of solitude and quiet, of nature and light, and of an emptiness so austere that it becomes radiantly full. This is a world that, unlike the day-to-day life in cities, requires full engagement to perceive at all. 

Martin abandoned New York and her painting career in 1967 (at the age of 55), and resettled in the New Mexico desert. When she began painting again in 1973 her work was markedly different: both lighter in color and mood and deeper in affect. This impression is nearly impossible get from photographs of the paintings, as it seems to lie as much in the manner in which the painting asks us to engage with it as it does with shape or color.

What I hope to do with asleep, desert, choir, agnes is to call up a series of sonic fragments of that world, not as they might actually have been if we’d recorded them, but as if their sonic traces had placed themselves onto one of her canvases. 
–Michael Pisaro

asleep, desert, choir, agnes

Soprano Louise Fauteux
Pianist Miguel Campinho

Premiered at Women Composers Festival of Hartford

Commissioned by Women Composers Festival of Hartford, An Aria For The Executive Order is my attempt to understand how masses of people can be stripped of their basic humanity by the banality of ignorance .

The text is lifted directly from the original Travel Ban, signed by Donald Trump, and two quotes from Philip Roth's 2010 novel Nemesis. 

An Aria For The Executive Order (Niloufar Nourbakhsh  - World Premiere)

Angharad Lee : Speaker 1
Angharad Kellett : Speaker 2
Angharad Closs Stephens : Speaker 3
Angharad Puw Davies : Speaker 4
Angharad Jenkins : Speaker 5
Angharad Davies : Violin

Day 1 of Cafe Oto Residency supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation

Angharad and the Angharads 22.3.19 Oto Residency

Ensemble (2012) / Tim Parkinson
Dedalus : Amélie Berson, flûte - Cyprien Busolini, alto - Pierre-Stéphane Meugé, sax - Thierry Madiot, trombone - Deborah Walker, violoncelle - Didier Aschour, guitare
Live @ Music We'd Like to Hear (Londres), Octobre 2012

Ensemble Tim Parkinson(extrait)

Chords Obscured / Michael Pisaro
Dedalus : Silvia Tarozzi, violon - Amélie Berson, flûte - Deborah Walker, violoncelle - Thierry Madiot, trombone - Didier Aschour, guitare
Live @ EuroMicroFest, Pavillon Suisse (Paris), Mai 2013

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