Adam Kondor’s memorial to his ex-wife who died in a fall while rock climbing. The performance is a mashup of found sounds/field recordings and his wife performing his Six Sonate for Cimbalom Solo
“Ildikó was one of the world’s premiere cimbalom players (in Adam’s own words “She was the best cimbalom player in Hungary, and for classical music probably the best all over the world – not many people play Bach on cimbalom”), and a composer in her own right. She’s featured on all kinds of major recordings, and had worked with everyone from Kurtag to Ligeti to Eötvös (in fact she was soloist just last January in NYC at Zankel Hall, in a concert led by Eötvös)” http://bit.ly/6rMCcq
“improvisation performed and recorded live created by using various “controllers” (macbookpro, ableton live, korg nanokey, iphone, (buddha machine and srutibox) originally performed on ImprovFriday event. October 16th-17th 2009″
“I always start off with an improvisation, and work out the final piece in midi. Some times there’s a lot of fiddling about, other times I only clean it up a little, which is the case for the Jan. 15th piece. So no big secrets there, but what I try to achieve is a style of improvisation that sounds like it could have been written in the more traditional sense.”
“Polymetric Phrygian Plainchant is based on a Phrygian mode version of the Dies Irae. It was composed and recorded entirely in Sibelius 5, using synthesized woodwind instruments. The altered Dies Irae melody is successively heard at five different tempos, in the ratio 2:3:5:7:11. This piece dates from July 2009 and was first posted on ImprovFriday.“
Killsonic is a collective of musicians operating in the Greater Los Angeles Area specializing in the creation, development and performance of new hybridized music. Comprised of a core quartet of guitar, bass, drums and woodwinds, the group names its primary musical source as the free jazz of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. Similar to these artists, Killsonic also takes inspiration from contemporary art and sound. Listen closely for hints of Roni Size, Radiohead, Sonic Youth and Arab on Radar to Gyorgy Ligeti and Olivier Messiaen. Killsonic often performs with an expanded ten-member group that includes horns and vocalists. Members of the band have also performed alongside Arkestra Clandestina, Money Mark, Bobby Bradford, and Vinny Golia.
Killsonic’s debut album features a guest appearance by cornet and trumpet hero Bobby Bradford, of Ornette Coleman fame. Each track experiments with different instrumentation, from a clarinet/guitar duo, to an expanded group that includes a female choir.
“This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as… something.
The team: Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder and myself with some help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. Rob Sheridan collaborated with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create the accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.
We began improvising and let the music decide the direction. Eyes were closed, hands played instruments and it began. Within a matter of days it became clear we were on to something, and a lot of material began appearing. What we thought could be a five song EP became much more. I invited some friends over to join in and we all enjoyed the process of collaborating on this.
The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we’re able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed – from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we’ve ever created.
More volumes of Ghosts are likely to appear in the future.”
Another ImprovFriday piece. I know Noah Bailey Dowell and his family from a church we all used to go to. He is known as “The Mighty” and he died on 10.3.09 after a battle with a rare form of cancer. He was 8 years old. He and his family are an inspiration. They are all mighty indeed!. This piece is for Noah. I don’t know what else to say.
“I downloaded Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch from Sourceforge (mentioned on IF thread somewhere, I think) and started playing with it. It processes a file to extend sound at the same pitch over long intervals (8x, 16x 32x, etc) and it seems to include overtones. Anyway, I wrote a simple E flat major scale with thirds and fourths. The score (.pdf) is here:”
