Recorded on 22 March 2015 at Oak Bay Matinee

Victoria Guitar Trio plays Mystic Veil by Benton Roark

Bradford Werner plays the Gigue from Suite in E Minor (orig. Re minor - Dresden) by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750). Demo Recording (2013)

Gigue from Suite in E Minor by Weiss

High-quality downloads and CD of the studio recording is available at
https://dalniente.bandcamp.com/album/object-animal

SWAN (2016-17)

a - Korridor/Karaoke Mahshar - 00’00’’-19’42’’

b - Rod Modell - 19’43’’-28’49’’

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Recording of the premiere performance at the Constellation Chicago, 02/19/2017.

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Murat Çolak - Score & Electronics

Ensemble Dal Niente - Amplified Instruments:
Michael Lewanski - Conductor
Emma Hospelhorn - Flute, cymbals
Anna Velzo - Oboe
Katie Schoepflin - Clarinets
Gregory Beyer - Percussion
Mabel Kwan - Piano, bass synthesizer, percussion
Tara Lynn Ramsey - Violin
Chris Wild - Cello

Dan Tramte - Video (Excerpts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5EQIlIf24 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG70iw4TSFU )
Nolan Chin - Live Sound
David Zuchowski - Recording

Live recording mixed & mastered by Murat Çolak

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Video of the premiere performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwNBIJ2KKLE&feature=share

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Interview with Emma Hospelhorn: http://www.dalniente.com/news/2017/3/26/interview-murat-olaks-swan

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Thanks: Ben Melsky, Grace Heatherington Tilka, Constellation Chicago, Frequency Series.

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SWAN is commissioned by NewMusicUSA

SWAN

Composed by Scott Edward Godin
Produced by Mark Takeshi McGregor 
Recorded by Brian Campbell (Wizard Sound Services) 
Mastered by Susana Valente 
CD Cover Design by Benton Roark 
Performed by Michael G. Dias, Adrian Verdejo, Bradford Werner

on Poetics 
for classical guitar trio (2014) 

"Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." 

Aristotle, Poetics (c. 335 BC) 

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. It is in part response to Plato’s Republic, as Aristotle argues against his former teacher by describing both the social function and necessity of art. I chose this text as the basis for my composition, as many of the concepts introduced by Aristotle can be interpreted in musical and theatrical ways, while creating a unified work paying homage to both concepts and values from the original treatise. The work consists of seven short movements, revealing the concepts outlined in Aristotle’s work. 


This project would not have been possible without the generosity of the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. Thank you very much for your support in this wonderful endeavor.
lyrics

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ” Aristotle, Metaphysics
credits

Concentric Rings

on Poetics: Melos (melody​)​; Dianoia (thought)

on Poetics: Melos (melody​)​; Dianoia (thought) by Scott Edward Godin

Fantasia No. 7 in D major by Georg Philipp Telemann, performed by Mark Takeshi McGregor, flute. www.marktakeshimcgregor.com

Sins & Fantasies

Telemann: Fantasia No. 10 In F# Minor, TWV 40:11

fantasiae was originally conceptualized to incorporate multiple layers of performative space, time and bodies - involving live performance, electronic processing, and a 16 speaker sound system. It was later presented as an installation, exhibiting the distinct types of musical performance played back through 16 speakers. This stereo version aims to express similar categories of spatiality, temporality and physicality. 
fantasiae's materials are twofold: with pastel pencil and blank score paper (onion skin), the performer (Mark McGregor) transcribes the first movement (Grave) of Georg Philipp Telemann’s Fantasia for Flute in a-minor (TWV 40:3). The transcription is performed with musical expression. The sound of the pastel pencil on the paper becomes musical and simultaneously triggers and shapes the playback of McGregor’s previously recorded flute performance of the Telemann fantasia.
The other material consists of yet another transcription of that same transcription, now adapted for alto flute. Just as the swishing and at times percussive sounds of the pastel pencil, the sound of the flute rushes and explodes through the space, similarly affecting the playback of the Telemann recording. 
McGregor's various readings of Telemann's piece take place within composition and performance of this work – both with regards to human and digital performance. In fantasiae, the acts of transcription and reading both become similarly reproductive in terms of re-performing the writing, interpreting and recording of a piece, and generative/productive in terms of sounding out. - A. Brosin

Annette Brosin: fantasiae for flute and electronics

The word Tamazusa is derived from an ancient Japanese word Tama-Azusa. Azusa means birch tree. In an ancient preliterate society, there were messengers who carried canes made of birch wood. They delivered messages by word of mouth. From this, Tamazusa and Tama-Azusa came to refer to a message or letter. In addition, Tamazusa also represents karasu uri (Japanese snake gourd) whose seed resembles the shape of a knotted letter. Breathing through the embouchure hole of the piccolo and carrying a message on the music, the player of this piece becomes a messenger. So I titled this work Tamazusa. (Etsuko Hori)

Performed live by Mark Takeshi McGregor at the ISCM World New Music Days in Vancouver, 7 November 2017.

Etsuko Hori: Tamazusa for solo piccolo

Powell Street Festival's performance of NEFES.PAS.ÇIRA.IŞI (2015) at the ISCM World New Music Days 2017 in Vancouver. 

Mark Takeshi McGregor - Flutes
Brian Nesselroad - Percussion

Performed and recorded at the ANNEX, 11/07/2017.

NEFES.PAS.ÇIRA.IŞI - Mark Takeshi McGregor & Brian Nesselroad

Studio recording of "The Night", the first movement of Toru Takemitsu's duo for alto flute and guitar, Toward the Sea (1981). 
Mark Takeshi McGregor, alto flute; Adrian Verdejo, guitar.
Recorded 26 January 2018 at Creativ Studios, North Vancouver.
Recording engineer: Jordan Nobles

Takemitsu: Toward the Sea, "The Night"

Studio recording of "Bordel 1900", the first movement of Astor Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango (1986) flute and guitar. 
Mark Takeshi McGregor, alto flute; Adrian Verdejo, guitar.
Recorded 26 January 2018 at Creativ Studios, North Vancouver.
Recording engineer: Jordan Nobles

Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango, I. Bordel 1900

Established on Canada's beautiful West Coast in 2007, the Victoria Guitar Trio is one of today's leading classical guitar ensembles. Described as "energetic and engaging," audiences and reviewers have heralded the trio for their virtuosity and depth of interpretation. Their concert repertoire is diverse and includes original transcriptions of early music, Spanish and Latin-American guitar favorites, and new cutting-edge works. The Victoria Guitar Trio is committed to enriching the contemporary guitar repertoire and to promoting the music of Canadian composers, they have premiered many new works and will release their debut CD of all-original Canadian music for three guitars in 2017. 

on Poetics: Melos (melody); Dianoia (thought) by Scott Edward Godin

The Victoria Guitar Trio

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