Continuing our ambitious People Like Us vinyl reissue program with Welcome Aboard – a strangely relevant 10-year-old album (originally released in May 2011) when People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett became stranded in the US after the Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption closed much of northern Europe’s airspace. 

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Welcome Abroad LP

People Like Us - Sing (from Welcome Abroad LP)

music composed by Martin Arnold (2019); words: traditional
performed by:
Sharron Kraus: voice; bamboo flute
Angharad Davies: voice; violin
Martin Arnold: melodica
BBC Scottish Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

The Gay Goshawk (excerpt)

perf. by the National Estonian Symphony orchestra, cond. Olari Elts
concert recording / 10.9.2021

Commissioned by Musica femina München and composed for the Münchener Kammerochester, cond. Clemens Schuldt

"Hier ist alles Abstand, und dort wars Atem". R.M.Rilke. Die achte Elegie

Following the series of my aquatic pieces, “Apnea” (in latin “absence of breathing”) for string orchestra, written during the pandemic winter, reflects the importance of breathing whilst exploring the physical and emotional transformation during the immersion under the water. The macro form of the composition reminds of a very long breath-in and a gradual breath-out stretching the time in between while continuing to delay the climax and increase the tension until the limits. The orchestra is playing without any pause taking both the players and listeners through the existential odyssey.

"Apnea" for strings (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zelwVNqsN7M

dedicated to Tortoise (http://www.trts.com/)

Constance Volk, flute
Hanna Hurwitz, violin
Ammie Brod, viola
Juan Horie, cello
Christopher Jones, conductor

Written for the Dal Niente and DePaul Summer Residency for New Music 2022.

(almost always is nearly enough) [live]  // Ensemble Dal Niente

Compost

"The Future Ones" Groundswell 3: Quatuor Bozzini
Quatuor Bozzini (Clemens Merkel, Alissa Cheung, violons; Stéphanie Bozzini, alto; Isabelle Bozzini, violoncelle)
En concert le 22 mars, 2022
Eckhardt Hall, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB

Lloyd Peterson, ingénieur de son

Cheung, Alissa - du nord (2020)

Selves for bass clarinet, string orchestra, live electronics by Yannis Kyriakides. Premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival 2023 performed by Gareth Davis (bass clarinet) and AUKSO Orkiestra conducted by Marek Mos.

Selves (for bass clarinet, string orchestra, live electronics)

composed by Martin Arnold (2003)
played by:
Martin Arnold - melodica
Eric Chenaux - voice, guitar
Ryan Driver - voice, synthesizer
Doug Tielli - voice, trombone
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Tam Lin

composed by Martin Arnold (2010)
performed by Helen Pridmore - voice gating recordings

Janet

composed by Martin Arnold (1997)
performed by Quatuor Bozzini

Contact; Vault

composed by Martin Arnold (2013)
performed by:
Martin Arnold: whistling (vocoding processed recordings) and tenor banjo (gating processed recordings)

Selves (for bass clarinet, string orchestra, live electronics)

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