magnificent contmeporary work - the objects do some heavy lifting : )

Please use headphones or nice speakers with a subwoofer and keep in mind soundcloud, unfortunately, really compresses this file.

The electronics blooming from the acoustic in a symbiotic, intertwined creature like lichen.

Speaker Spit (2021-22) for large ensemble and electronics

Francisco Alvarado • electric guitar
Cécile Le Talec • objects

Under the trees in the garden of the St Étienne Church in Beauvais, like the lines of a drawing in space, appears Flux, a sculpture imagined by the artist Cécile Le Talec for this site. Around and through it, the greenery, the columns of the building, the church enter into its composition.

The sculpture is made up of stainless steel threads which give the illusion of having been led like weft threads between warp threads, as they would be called for a loom. Together, they form an extraordinary mesh. The city's drapery and textile activity will undoubtedly have inspired the artist. Flush with the ground, without a base or foundation, the sculpture evokes the light form of an organdi canvas or a large drape, which would have come to rest in this green setting.

Or would it, on the contrary, be a lifting of the ground? Throughout his creative residency in Beauvais, the artist collects sounds of the city, draws and writes in a notebook about the history of the site. She records the flocks of bells, the song of blackbirds and starlings, and sees the material thus brought together as a whole, in an approach of synthesis of the arts.

Cécile Le Talec thus invites the composer Francisco Alvarado to imagine, in turn, a second work: an original composition, created according to his musical and personal interpretation of the spectrographic form of the sculpture. This sound creation, inseparable from the work, will be played during the inauguration as part of a performance.

For the two artists, an invisible link seems to connect the line of the first drawings, the stainless steel wire of the sculpture and the acoustic wave generated by the music. As if the whole thing was moving and vibrating in the air until it produced a visual and audible sensation in us.

FLUX [2023] • for electric guitar, objects & electronics

Growth

a live cut from our recent Rat Palace Sessions Album Launch. The piece is an improvisation based on a track from the album - which of course is also an improv.  So we are going down the rabbit hole here performing improvs based on improvs, each time changing into something slightly different.

Kirby/Ward LIVE - thumbs

Aporia is an ongoing Internet collab project based around the piano/bass duo 'KIrby/Ward'. Occasionally we capture something at rehearsal that we send to dummer Dane Renshaw (Japan) and guitarist Bruce Musser (U.S.A) to add their respective talents too. Its usually pretty spacious and dreamy : ) This time however the piece we sent out was really busy and instead of trying to pare it back we thought fuck it lets go full hog and make it super busy. So we asked Guitarist Axel Weiß (Germany)and Saxophonist Phil Bywater (Australia) to join the party. So The sextet was born. Of note is that none of the players heard any other parts of the work other than the original Piano/Bass recording, and in the  case of the Saxophones poor Phil didn't hear anything at all! I just used some work he had sent me. So all those nuanced interactions are complete sonic chance. as always Aporia may or may not record more music

Aporia #3 (Sextet)

Then She Reaches For The Gun was a one off project, bringing together more than 50 artists from across the globe, releasing an album in late 2022 nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-…ely-future But it was so much fun we are back for more.

The Soul Craves Oblivion features the following artists:

Andrew Harper - Field Recordings/Dripping Tap
Ariad Music- Piano
Banalytic  - Chaos Intro
Bellai Pelegrim - Chaos Intro
Chicago Word Brigade - Chaos Intro
Dane Renshaw  - Drums
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar
Frank Wilke - Voice
Håkan Skeneby - Chaos Intro
Johnny Python - Zappaesque Guitar Quartet
JZsuperstar - Circus Music
Libby Laksmi - Synth Bass  
Paolo D’Emilio - Chaos Intro
Phil Bywater - Tenor Saxophone
Raul Mainer- Chaos Intro
Stan Magendanz - Chaos Intro
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Soprano Saxophone
Timothy Korstad - Guitar/Text/Voice
Thomas Bergheim - Chaos Intro
Tobias Schmitt- Text
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Chaos Intro
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Chaos Intro
Wivresse - Text/Voice
Zanshin - Drums

Mat Ward -  Arrangement/Electric Bass/Field Recordings/Marimba/Noise 
Neska and Senna - Sniffing, Walking and Licking My Face

Then She Reaches For The Gun - The Soul Craves Oblivion

Étude - SORA (2024)
for 8 soloists

Credit: Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie 2023-24
Conducted by: Yannick Mayaud
Audio Engineer: Markus Güdel

premiered at Lucerne Festival
Photo Credit: © Lucerne Festival/Priska Ketterer

Étude SORA for 8 soloists

I am made of broken wood (2024)
for Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Violin, Violoncello & Objects
Written for the Plural Ensemble.
Live Recording l International Music Festival of the Canary Islands. 
Conductor: Fabián Panisello.
12nd October 2024, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

https://www.joseluisperdigon.com/ill-use-iii-1-2

I am made of broken wood (2024) for quintet and objects l Live Recording

Then She Reaches For The Gun was a one off project, bringing together more than 50 artists from across the globe, releasing an album in late 2022 nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/the-…ely-future But it was so much fun we are back for more.

Flashing My Vagina At Koalas features the following artists:
Ambient Annie - Electronica
Ariad Music - Piano
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dane Renshaw - Drums
Frank Wilke - French Horn
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Voice 
Johnny Python- Rocking Outro
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Keyboards
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Electronica 
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Thomas Bergheim - Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Processed Organ 
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Ms Pacman Slasher Sounds
Zanshin - Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangement/Noise/Voice

Then She Reaches For The Gun - Flashing My Vagina At Koalas

paw-marks in wet cement (2015–17), for piano, two percussionists, and amplified ensemble.
Performed by Wilhem Latchoumia, and the EOC conducted by Daniel Kawka.

I am made of broken wood (2024) for quintet and objects l Live Recording

José Luis Perdigón de Paz

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