MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA III (2010)

Canto Metrics is structured duo improvisation and computer music work utilising a variety of archival recorded material from the Royal College of Music Museum and other historic media archives. The title is derived from the ethnomusicological practice of the sound recordist Alan Lomax who developed a vast library documenting traditional folk music from around the world. Most of the work's recordings are coloured by their original wax cylinder format which imbues the material with distinct and complex textural and timbral characteristics. These elements serve as the basis for a variety of signal processing and sampling techniques to transform the historic qualities of the sound sources into a distinctly contemporary idiom.

Canto Metrics, in collaboration with Liam Dougherty

◆Details: https://www.takahirokuroda-composer.com/journey-wander-haziness-fogginess

◆Commissioned by Phidias Trio

◆Premiere: Phidias Trio vol.8 “Journey, Wander…”
July 1, 2023, Tokyo, KM Art Hall
Maiko Matsuoka, Violin; Ryuta Iwase, Clarinet; Erika Kawamura, Piano

■Recorded by keikoushiryou
■Recording date: July 24, 2023, Tokyo, KM Art Hall
Maiko Matsuoka, Violin; Ryuta Iwase, Clarinet; Erika Kawamura, Piano

*Photo by Jakub Kriz on Unsplash

journey, wander; haziness, fogginess (2023) for violin, bass clarinet and piano

Performed by TAK Ensemble in October 2023

Bring Me Your Silence

Back to some tape music but I don't have a tape player so software instead. Spring 2025. More to come.

On an Empty Stomach

Some sines - might hang around. June 2025.

New Developments

Summer 2025. Sine tones, computer. Speakers preferred, headphones suggested - not too loud. More next week...maybe?

Thanks to: Crocodiles

The Unexpected Hanging

Andrew McIntosh, solo violin

recorded in the Andreaskirche, Berlin, Germany

released on care/of editions, April 2014

Marc Sabat - Two Commas

jay schwartz

MUSIC FOR AUTOSONIC GONGS

MUSIC FOR STRING QUARTET (2018)

Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 3xCD (SLT-005)

Saltern presents its fifth release, Charles Curtis: Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, the first comprehensive collection of recordings surveying the career of renowned, American cellist Charles Curtis. Selected by Curtis and Tashi Wada from recordings spanning the past two decades, the collection offers a broad, inclusive view of Curtis's activities across the diverse worlds of music he inhabits, containing rare, unreleased recordings, and never-before-released music by Terry Jennings, Richard Maxfield, Éliane Radigue, Alison Knowles, and Curtis. The wide-ranging scope of this release speaks not to a musical restlessness, but to a genuine spirit of inquiry, as these areas of activity for Curtis have existed concurrently in dialogue, not simply in succession, for decades. Over two hours of music by composers and artists with whom Curtis is closely associated including Éliane Radigue, Guillaume de Machaut, Tobias Hume, Silvestro di Ganassi, Terry Jennings, Morton Feldman, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Alison Knowles, Richard Maxfield, and Curtis himself. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu with liner notes by La Monte Young, Spencer Gerhardt, and Tashi Wada. Custom packaging and screen printing by Alan Sherry; edition of 500.

Canto Metrics, in collaboration with Liam Dougherty

Jasmine Morris