Piano And String Quartet

a_priori [2013] for flute and cello

New track from forthcoming collaborative album by Deerhoof and Dal Niente.  Pre-order and read more here:  https://dalnientedeerhoof.bandcamp.com/

Coming April 29, 2016 on New Amsterdam Records.

Movement 6 from meltDown Upshot, composed by Marcos Balter.

Press inquiries:  jill@newamrecords.com

New Amsterdam Records is excited to announce the new collaborative album from Deerhoof ("the best band in the world” - Pitchfork) and Chicago-based 22-piece contemporary music group Dal Niente (“a model of what contemporary music needs" - The Chicago Tribune), Balter / Saunier, which will be released on April 29. The album features works by Brazilian-born composer Marcos Balter and arrangements by Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier of his band’s songs. The album will be celebrated at ensemble Dal Niente’s 10th Anniversary Party in Chicago on April 30 at Dal Niente's Studio & 3rd Floor Commons at 4045 N Rockwell, which will include the Chicago premiere of Saunier’s piece on the album, “Deerhoof Chamber Variations.” 

Deerhoof and Dal Niente first crossed paths in 2012 when they shared a bill at Chicago’s Millennium Park. The two groups bonded instantly over their shared sensibilities and began a long-term collaboration, performing together when possible and inspiring each other along the way. Balter / Saunier is a culmination of these explorations, an intricate intermingling of styles that captures each group at its most adventurous and encapsulates what it means to create, perform and listen to music in 2016. 

Despite the scope and scale of the collaboration (with more than 30 people involved), the recording process was a remarkably DIY effort. Balter / Saunier is self-produced, mixed and edited; composers session-produced their pieces; and engineer Dan Nichols cleverly turned a busy downtown ballroom into a treated recording environment. Everyone spent a lot of time listening – to the music and each other – and it shows: the final product is the very definition of a meeting of the minds, a perfect distillation of several (highly developed) artistic voices. 

Balter / Saunier consists of two longer works, one each by Balter and Saunier, with one shorter piece by Balter between the two. The album opens with Balter’s seven-part piece “meltDown Upshot”, a magnetic mix of heady beats, catchy pop, absorbing postminimalism, angular melodies and fireworks of free jazz written specifically for the two groups’ collaboration. Next is “Pois que nada que dure, ou que durando,” a poem by Fernando Pessoa that translates to "For that nothing lasts, or that lasting” in English, a dissonance-tinged work that plays like a sonic realization of Dalí’s “Persistence of Memory.” The album closes with Saunier's “Deerhoof Chamber Variations”, a work for Dal Niente that uses Deerhoof's catalogue as source material. Rather than simply re-arranging Deerhoof songs by rote, Saunier flexes his compositional background to create a meditation on the group’s discography. Familiar melodies – set amongst grand, expansive arrangements – drift in and out of view as if from a refracted memory.

Dal Niente & Deerhoof - meltDown Upshot: 6. Cherubim (Marcos Balter)

for tenor saxophone and piano

The piece is written for and dedicated to Gerald Preinfalk and Iren Seleljo

Recorded in Mitterretzbach (Austria), the 30th and 31st March 2016 in Wawegarden

http://www.gerald-preinfalk.at
https://soundcloud.com/user-prine
http://www.wavegarden.at


“ Una croce può essere di legno, o di ferro, o di marmo,
   ma la sua realtà non è il legno o il ferro o il marmo
   che riempie la sua forma, besì quello che sorge come
   forma là dove non c'è più materia. ”

Massimo Scaligero, SEGRETI DELLO SPAZIO E DEL TEMPO

The dimension of the enchantment is the way of the contemplation which makes possible to dress the imago, interlacing its resonant tunic.

Simone Movio, " Incanto IX " (2014-2015)

Shell Shock was written for a project conceived by the cellist Céline Papion and Anna Drescher, which takes inspiration from soldiers in World War One who managed to make musical instruments from what they found lying around. 

The premier of the complete theater piece took place on November 1, 2018 at Theater Rampe in Stuttgart. 

The premier of this version of Shell Shock was performed by Céline Papion with Oliver Frick on electronics on September 26, 2015 at the AK2 Galerie in Stuttgart, Germany.

More information about the project can be found here:
https://celinepapion.net/otto-musical-theatre-for-cello-otto-and-live-electronics/

Shell Shock for Otto and playback/2015/Céline Papion

Fata Morgana for 2 celli. Céline Papion and Jesse Ronneau, celli

Fata Morgana

asche (2018) for Acousmatic

Premiere: 12.04.2018 in Église Saint-Merri - Paris, France

Events: Petites Formes 2018 Acousmatic Composition Competition

Winning Prize at Petites Formes 2018 Acousmatic Composition Competition

asche

Memory. Hope. Letters from home receive a connection to the old life. Wistful retrospect, short escape from the situation.
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Live recording, Premiere 2018 Theater Rampe Stuttgart
Artistic director: Drescher & Papion Productions
Performance: Céline Papion
Live electronics: Oliver S. Frick
more on: cello-otto.com/

Mitrailleuse et Mémoire for cello and one loudspeaker by Steffen Krebber 2018

OTTO - Music theatre for cello, OTTO & live electronics
Drescher & Papion Productions
How do extreme personal or social situations shape ourselves – and can art serve as a survival
strategy? Inspired by instruments that were built out of rubbish by soldiers in the trenches of World
War I, cellist/performer Céline Papion follows the traces of a young soldier through the war. Starting
point and main focus of this journey is the instrumental sculpture OTTO. An international team of
young composers (Huihui Cheng (CN), Lukas Huber (CH), Steffen Krebber (DE), Joseph Michaels (US)
und Sophie Pope (GB)) wrote music for this instrument to which the live-electronic compositions by Oliver S. Frick provide a tension-filled counterpoint.

Mitrailleuse et Mémoire for cello and one loudspeaker by Steffen Krebber 2018

OTTO

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