LOM Geofon connected to zoom h4n, 24bit 96khz

LOM Geofon Demo - Wind through the chimney_ three variations

The Juneteenth Parade of Alta Vista

All music performed live @Red Earth Studio, Kolkata, India.

Srinjay Banerjee - El. guitar/FX/Live Triggers

Nilanjan Ghosh - Tabla

Operation Killjoy - Enter the Shakaal.

Sample of the arrangement for electric guitar.  

বড়ো আশা করে এসেছি গো (c. Tagore) - Prelude for El. Guitar

An incantation or enchantment is a charm or spell created using words. An incantation may take place during a ritual, either a hymn or prayer, and may invoke or praise a deity. This track was created using the Modal 008 synthesizer, external effects & drums were also used.

Incantation

Cobblestone

A French dance based on two Gaillardes by Pierre Attaingnant.
Live performance recording with Mélanie Clapiès, Eunae Koh, Carrie Frey, and Isidora Nojkovic.

Gaillarde (2017)

Magic

Gerardo Lopez, flute solo.
Recorded at the University of Redlands, 27JUN19.

Jackson Pollock’s early surrealist work, Guardians of the Secret (1943), is displayed in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and serves as the inspiration behind Enigmatic Improvisation for solo flute and electronics, op. 16  (2019).  The painting exudes the heavy, mystical air of an ancient, shamanistic scene far removed from common, everyday experience, and is cast with a sense of foreboding that verges on the apocalyptic.  The shadowy background figures, armored sentinels standing guard in their protective display of the secret image, appear surreal and menacing in their wild depiction.  A lone coyote, the spirit animal of dark magic and trickery in some Native American cultures, rests beneath the enigmatic relic with a watchful eye. 

Given these elements, I crafted the fixed media background with a similarly dark and weighty intensity, to conjure an ominous, and sometimes violent, clamorous landscape that defies simple explanation.  Disembodied whispers, animal cries, crashes, and subsonic eruptions depict the nocturnal absence of reason in the first movement, entitled Guardians.  This gives way to the transparent, diaphanous textures found in the meditative Mythos, portraying the radiant luminosity of the mysterious, secret artefact in a loosely unfolding prolation canon.  The final movement, Emergence, proceeds with a dark grandeur.  It arises from a sense of transcendent epiphany, one that suggests for the observer an unexpected awareness and wonder for the titular secret at the heart of this work. 
-ARL, 24MAY19.

Duration - Approximately 13 minutes

Enigmatic Improvisation was selected as a Finalist for the Red Jasper Award for Music Composition in February 2022.

This work was also chosen to be featured at the 2020 Turn Up Multimedia Festival at the Fred Fox School of Music at the University of AZ, Tucson.

Enigmatic Improvisation for flute & electronics, op. 16 (2019) -- Original version

The Two Part Inventions for violin I posted recently surely fall beyond the capabilities of a single human performer, I fear.

So I've reconceived the pieces as duos in hocket.  Two violins could achieve my original intention, but why not some timbral contrast as here.

See the previous program notes for details about the construction of the pieces.

Cobblestone

The Universe Is Musical

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