Name: Voices Of A Deep Well by Turkar Gasimzada
Duration: 6 min 26 s
Description: "Voices of A Deep Well" performed by ECCE ensemble: Roberta Michel-flute, Liam Kinson - clarinet, Seth Parker Woods III - cello, Julia Den Boer - piano, Nicholas DeMaison - conductor; in 02/20/2017 at Boston Athenaeum.

5 minutes of music:

Part 1 - 3 short samples from "Murmurations," my new Clarinet concerto with Wind Orchestra. Recorded by Søren-Filip Brix Hansen, Giordano Bellincampi and the Life Guard Music Corp of Denmark.

Part 2 - opening of "L'infinito" for SATB, Harold Rosenbaum and the New York Virtuoso Singers.

Part 3 - Beginning of the 2nd movement of "Life Imagined, Life Engaged." Solo piccolo by František Kantor, conducted by Mikel Toms, with the Brno Philharmonic.

Excerpts Murmurations L'infinito Life Imagined Life Engaged

Classica e... - 1 aprile 2022

"Voices of A Deep Well" performed by ECCE ensemble: Roberta Michel-flute, Liam Kinson - clarinet, Seth Parker Woods III - cello, Julia Den Boer - piano, Nicholas DeMaison - conductor; in 02/20/2017 at Boston Athenaeum.

Voices Of A Deep Well

Brad Rau received a scholarship to attend New England Conservatory (NEC), and received a Master’s degree in 2015 with academic honors. At NEC, he studied classical guitar under Eliot Fisk who was the last pupil of Andres Segovia. Brad has performed in countless masterclasses with instructors including; Sharon Isbin, and Andrew York both Grammy award winning guitarists. Brad’s personal learning methods have enabled him to memorizing over 8 hours of the most difficult repertoire for the classical guitar. Brad was a semi-finalist in the International Texas Guitar Competition of 2008.  Brad currently studies under Grammy awarding winnings guitarist Jason Vieaux. Brad has been performing music for over 20 years all over Boston, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, as a classical guitarist, rock guitarist, and rock drummer.  Brad currently teaching music lessons at Taylor’s Music in West Chester, and performs every Friday at the Brandywine Distillery.  Brad has mentored hundreds of students of all ages, styles and levels. Many of Brad’s students have gone on to develop their own music careers and teaching studios.

Brad’s unique teaching style combines music, physics, philosophy and humor, making him a well-rounded instructor for a variety of students.

Prelude And Fugue BWV 995, Johann Sebastian Bach

Pieces for Flute and Piano: 4

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Connection II is the electronic version of Connection. There are two versions: one for performer, 4 channels and live electronics and one for performer, 8 channels and live electronics.

Connection II (clarinet solo and electronics-stereo/4channels/8channels)

The main idea for this composition was inspired by a set of snapshots obtained by means of the "Hubble" telescope. The galaxies and stellar nebulae demonstrate color spectra of fantastic beauty and an astonishing variety of forms: ellipses, spirals and innumerable irregular structures. Appearing to be immobile to the lay observer, in reality, following the law of the red shift, discovered by astronomer Edwin Hubble, these hyper-gigantic formations move away from each other with an incredible, continuously increasing speed. This results in the calm grandeur of the universe which in reality presents a monstrous energy of constant motion, one that simultaneously is creative and destructive.

My composition expresses a peculiar sound metaphor of Hubble's idea. Out of an amorphous mass of the "sound nebula" the fractal pitch structures gradually crystallize. In a similarly gradual way the "syntactic gravitation" forms large-scale phased periods. The dramatic play of matter and energy, the changeover of one to the other, leads to a constantly accelerating expansion of the sound space.

The principle of the red shift — the visual indicator of the grandiose expansion of the universe — is imprinted in the musical texture, not only metaphorically, but also structurally. In the formation of the composition's parameters of sound, the idea of phased shifts is reflected in shifts of pitches — the intervallic displacement of adjacent sound fractal chords — and shifts in the frequency domain — mutations of the timbre.

Redshift for orchestra and electronics

This piece presents a sort of compositional study based on the idea of Roland Barthes about "writing degree zero." It is an attempt to work with the most neutral type of musical material, bereft of any mythology, the most crucial aim of which is to create a "speaking" form with a sculpture-like relief. The piece was written upon commission from the Klangforum Wien ensemble for the bicentennial anniversary if Liszt in Weimar.

Last and Lost for ensemble. Klangforum Wien, Sylvain Camberling cond.

Anita Maasalu (klarnet); Brigitta Petropavlova (klaver); Triin Metshein (hääl); Karl-Eric Alert (salvestus); Rene Keldo (kokkumäng)

Maastik tihastega

Hyperloop is a soundart piece inspired by Elon Musk's fast train. I manipulated different sounds that I recorded from sealed tubes and system of tubes with low air pressure. I decided to use “glissando” as a metaphor for speed. This work is composed by four parts: A-B-A'-B'. This macrostructural organization allowed me to think about it as an infinite loop.
Versions: stereo or 8 channels in surround

Voices Of A Deep Well

Turkar Gasimzada

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