The lively fireworks here were gently provided by the major of Contigliano... A better coincidence could have never been asked for...

Joshua Mastel: bass clarinet, piano, homemade machine
(recorded June 2021)
https://joshuamastel.bandcamp.com/track/passage

passage (bass clarinet + piano)

trace - écart - for harp, electric guitar, cymbalum, double bass & electronics

Ensemble C Barré
Eva Debonne - harp
Cyril Dupuy - cymbalum
Thomas Keck - guitar
Charlotte Testu - double bass

Mónica Gil & Rudy Romeur - sound engineering

Premiered @ Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije 2017
Recorded @ GMEM Marseille

trace - écart [2017] • for harp, electric guitar, cymbalum, double bass & electronics

Aurélio Edler-Copes
In Resonance (2014-2015)
— after 'In C' by Terry Riley —
For electric guitar & live electronics 

CD "IN C+50" — éOle Records
Avaliable in Amazon: https://www.amazon.fr/Aurélio-Edler-Copes-50-Terry-Riley/dp/B071VTF8PL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517238994&sr=8-1&keywords=in+c+50+edler

IN C+50 website:
http://edler-copes.com/site/IN_C+50.html

In Resonance [excerpt]

Performed by Kadri-Ann Sumera
18.04.2018, Estonian Music Days Festival, Tubin Hall, Tartu

Terrains (for a pianist and two pianos in symbiotic tuning)

for small amplified group (bass cl, vln, vla, vcl, cbs) live electronics and megaphones.
performed by ensemble L'Arsenale 
recorded live, July the 8th 2012 in Contigliano during Composit contemporary music festival. 

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow

Canvas for string orchestra - excepts - slowed down version

And/Or (2019) - 14 musicians and electronics - Turning Point Ensemble - live-recording

This work explores the micro-synchronicity within a pulsation to create timbral and musical situations that are:
organic and/or synthetic,
mechanical and/or lyrical,
symmetrical and/or asymmetrical,
integrated and/or separated,
on-the-beat and/or off-the-beat,



Performers: Turning Point Ensemble
Conductor: Owen Underhill
Electronics: Anthony Tan

And/Or (2019) - 14 musicians and electronics - Turning Point Ensemble

See here for more info: http://bit.ly/2tYMSEs

States Of Fugue

Zoë Mc Pherson, 'LEARN UR LANGUAGE FASTER feat. Elvin Brandhi' (2020). Courtesy SFX, Berlin.

Taken from @forces-music's new album 'Epoch', out March 22, 2020 via Gin&Platonic

Following Forces’ breakthrough string of acclaimed albums coming out on the key label triad of Bio Future Lab., Conditional & Genot Centre in 2018, we are now more than pleased to extend the output of the Finnish musician and multidisciplinary artist Joonas Siren with his next full-length 'Epoch':

"This is the epoch of uncertainties; of shifting and unreliable narratives, of rising temperatures and sea levels, of growing economic inequality, of increasing political polarization and far-right influence.

’Epoch’ is a testament of these disintegrating processes. It is also a narrative of my own struggles. The album was made during 2019, when I felt that my mental health was unraveling; panic attacks, anxiety and somatic pains left me almost paralyzed before I got some professional help.

My personal troubles can be seen as an indicator of the general political, ecological and social problems. There are many new studies, how the looming possibility of climate catastrophe is causing anxiety and mental health issues.

Besides the disastrous effects on climate change, late capitalism is also causing problems on a societal level. The job and social security is poor, especially for younger generations, which in turn generates even more distress, alienation and mental instability.

How to remain hopeful in this situation? Rather than reverting to abandoned nihilism, I believe in the force of grassroots activism. Not everybody has to be like Greta Thunberg, but her actions can be seen as an illustrious example, how you can actual make a difference.

The album maps out all these topical ideas sonically. Collapsing sound material, unsteady temporal structures, noise and distortion build up intensities without catharsis. The tracks are made with different live programming techniques, peculiar time-stretching and layering techniques and other VST and FX’s dysfunctions.

Within the mournful aural chaos, there is a potentiality for change."

- Forces aka Joonas Siren

Produced by Forces
@forces-music

Mastered by Wim Dehaen
@wimdehaen

Artwork by Jiri Macku
jirimacku.tumblr.com

♻️

Epoch

Digital & Cassette

Forces - Somatoform

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet
commissioned by JACK Quartet, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Live Recording, JACK Quartet, 16 January 2020, Berlin

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow

Andrea Mancianti

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