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@lonewick
A short intense and gorgeous new orchestral piece by Núria Giménez Comas.
“A haiku-like piece revolving around the concept of impetus—of *envol* (taking flight) or "lifting off"—as a renewing force. Powerful opening chords emerge from the reorchestration of a Guns N’ Roses fragment: vocals and electric guitar reimagined for chamber orchestra. Coupled with a constant sense of "escape" or volatility, the opening embodies that initial surge of momentum—a creative impulse, desire, or sudden joy. A more contemplative section—yet one possessing an internal rhythmic drive—sustains that initial impulse, revealing a more poetic facet where stones begin to resonate and chime.”
https://on.soundcloud.com/OZ2l65ubbn9dxIzmjD
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@lonewick
Currently listening to this electroacoustic album:
‘Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica’
by Italian composer and saxophonist Laura Agnusdei
https://mapledeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flowers-are-blooming-in-antarctica
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@lonewick
Loving this album so far. Really cool extended techniques performed by Mivos Quartet.
https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lei-liang-six-seasons
"From under impenetrable ice, only the lone and disoriented Beluga whale’s distress call, pervading the cycle’s harrowingly sparse coda, compels all the more to render Liang’s dream of transformative unification a reality."
— Marc Medwin
"The Chukchi Sea, north of Alaska, is one of the most inaccessible places to humans on earth. Six seasons in the Arctic, according to the Inuit, are not demarcated by a fixed calendar, but by what we hear in the changing environment.
Hydrophones were placed about 300 meters below the sea surface at a seafloor recording location 160 km north of Point Barrow. They capture the sound of sea ice, marine mammals, and the underwater environment throughout an entire year." — Lei Liang
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@lonewick
Enjoying this new album of vocal music by one of my favorite composers, Nico Muhly.
Check out his write-up: https://nicomuhly.substack.com/p/album-no-resting-place
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@lonewick
'The Hand is an Ear' by Timothy McCormack, performed by JACK Quartet
"The performer and their instrument form a single body. Attention is drawn to the positioning and proximity of the appendages of this body, as well as their effortful and glacial movements; the body in acute proprioceptive relation to itself. This body does not move through a space - it becomes the space; the body as the site of kinesthetic inscription. We hear the body in its sound, and the sound subsumes us."
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@lonewick
Absolutely loving Pat Metheny's new album 'Side-Eye III+'.
I also appreciate that he vets young promising musicians for his new projects to help propel their careers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qef5Ui5qo6Q&list=OLAK5uy_lJ_s7Q-9bGQl_tXKzFZ_1C4jj33p6JtP0&index=2
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@lonewick
For something less dissonant than I usually post and more traditional “beautiful”, the piano trio piece ‘Pietà’ is gorgeous.
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/to-a-green-thought-in-a-green-shade
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@lonewick
'Vuoi che perduti (2018)' by Marco Momi
For saxophone, percussion and piano
https://youtu.be/vsK450YjSu8?si=MoExV7m3GuQ3w74w
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@ranggapuraji
An excerpt from the full live performance of my contemporary music ensemble called "VormarkA" at Kiniko Art, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Performing my graphic score composition series titled "Mond Marka"
In collaboration with a painter Yanal Desmond Zendrato
Performed by:
Me
Muhammad Welderahmat
Dhewantara 'Manroe' Manurung
Betrand Angelius Zai
https://youtu.be/J_bt0Zj-wDE?si=INFMtZrrj8ynhb6o
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@lonewick
Current listening. More Colin Stetson. This album is insane.
"The music on New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges was captured entirely live in single takes with no overdubs or looping (except for the French horn section on "All the days I've missed you", and guest vocals on various other tracks), using over 20 mics positioned throughout the live room."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY3KYNMVtJI&list=PLnpQFjefXCROSKaSWDOtHyWEUXJ0B4Yiu
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@lonewick
New Colin Stetson track.
He’s the crazy sax player that did the soundtracks for Hereditary, Mayday, Among the Stars, the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Menu, Uzumaki, etc.
https://youtu.be/wcrzvTlgb7U?si=GszQHhqVmroLXPHp
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@lonewick
'Composer and pianist Richard Carrick's recent work fuses his penchant for long form composition, fluency in extended techniques, versatile performance practice, and interest in structured improvisation. This newest album-length work, l’Algérie is the second part of a trilogy of large-scale works inspired in part by the music of the Maghreb region of North Africa, drawing on Carrick's own family background and a fresh approach to the region's diverse musical heritage.'
https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/richard-carrick-l-alg-rie
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@lonewick
'With the battle of Pavia in 1525 a long period of Spanish domination began for Milan. Under the reign of Charles V the arts and music flourished. Antonio de Cabezón travelled across Europe visiting Milan in 1548 and his music influenced the great European composers. Contrary to keyboard instruments, lute and vihuela already have a vast repertoire in print. The combination of a keyboard instrument (tecla) with the vihuela (called “viola da mano” in Italy) is common in the sources of Spanish influence of this period, which often bear the indication “para tecla y vihuela”.
Evangelina Mascardi and Maurizio Croci, explore the affinities, the contrasts and, in the words of an
enthusiastic chronicler of the time, the “unheard of
imitations” that arise from the dialogue between the two instruments."'
https://youtu.be/PnTOUQGYRIY?si=m5NxR0BozGpJ-eMG
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