It is beautiful interpretation, why is the recording cut at the end?

For 4 computer-controlled pianos and 4 speakers.

Premiered Feb 13th, 2014 as part of Qubit's Machine Music Concert.

In sin fin bin din bin fin sin in

The title of this piece "Blanc cassé" is a French term for Off White color, one of the omnipresent colors in El Greco's palette: in faces, skin and landscapes. It also describes a white that "breaks" (casse) the dark backgrounds of his works, specially in the painting "Views of Toledo".
This piece is based on the contraposition between a low and calm background and the reflections of irreal and phantom light of the first layers.

Blanc Cassé, for ensemble (2014)

String Quartet piece composed by Midori Jaeger, March 2015. Performed by the Onyx String Quartet.

Violin 1 - Tom Aldren
Violin 2 - Jimmy Jarvis
Viola - Christoven Tan
Cello - Midori Jaeger

Recorded at the Royal Academy of Music. Mixed by Andrew Lang. Special thanks to Andrew Lang and the Onyx String Quartet!

Half A Lime - for String Quartet (or Quing Struartet)

Arrangement of Julia by Midori Jaeger, December 2014

Vocals, cellos - Midori Jaeger

Produced by Vince Webb

Julia - The Beatles (arrangement for voice and ten cellos)

Down The River (song by Pete Moore) arranged by Midori Jaeger for voice, seven cellos and percussion, January 2015.

Vocals, Cellos, Doumbek, Tambourine, Cymbals - Midori Jaeger

Produced by Vince Webb

Down The River (arrangement for voice, seven cellos, doumbek)

for piano, electronics (a version with Isaki Lacuesta video was created in Kyoto Arts Center in February, 2015)

Kemuri, for piano and electronics (2015)

L'Ile d'Ouessant, in Brittany. At the forefront of Pern, one can see a large bird, striped plumage mottled yellowish red, gray and brown, leggy, provided a very long curved beak sickle: the Curlew! Here is his solo: slow tremolos and sad, mounted color, wild trills, and a call on glissando tragically repeated that expresses all the desolation of seascapes.

At the forefront of Feunteun-Velen, chopped by the waves, the cries of all shorebirds: cruel appeal of the Black-headed Gull, brassy rhythms (with horn sound) of the Herring Gull, flute-like melody of the Knight Gambette, repeated notes of the Turnstone, shrill whistles, acute bearings of the Eurasian Oystercatcher - and other cries again: those of the small Plover, the Common Gull, the Common Murre, and the little Tern.

Water runs out of sight. Gradually, the fog and the night spread over the sea. Everything is black and terrible. Among his jagged rocks, the Phare Créac'h produces a mighty roar: the siren! Still some bird calls and the complaint of the Curlew repeated away ... Cold, total night, and sound of the surf ...

Le Courlis Cendré from Catalogue d'Oiseaux - Olivier Messiaen

King Claudius: "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
W.Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act.III, Scene III. 

"Let the fuckers try and work that one out…"
John Lennon to Pete Shotton, after writing I am the Walrus.

Commisioned by Concentus Moraviae festival
performed live by Fama Quartet
photo (c)Roy Kerwood (Wikimedia Commons)

Le Courlis Cendré from Catalogue d'Oiseaux - Olivier Messiaen

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