"Electroacoustic Music Selected Concepts of Radio Art. By Michal Rataj

"Electroacoustic Music Selected Concepts of Radio Art.  

By Michal Rataj

The Link to the Full Text

http://www.pfau-verlag.de/pdf_art/27405.pdf

"Glue Glacial" (Excerpt) for Violin

Evolutionary, Revolutionary and Disruptive Ideation in Contemporary Composition

"Equilibrado". Louise Wei Composer

"Equilibrado" 

for Baritone Horn & Alto Flute

Louise Wei, Composer

2014-2015

"Split By An Immense Roar" for Chamber Orchestra, et al

"Split By An Immense Roar" for Chamber Orchestra, et al: 

Bil Smith Composer (2014)

Compositional Concept Funded and Devised by Louise Lord. 

Execution by Jeorne Balette (IRCAM). With assistance from the NYPD, Johnson Tremidy, Donald Foerbasch, Radio France, Verizon and The Locke Family.

Phasation Two: The meaning of compositional content of this experience is corporeal. 

It seems to be in a category all of it's own; categorized with it's descriptions of essence; description is to be extolled for it's accuracy, effectiveness and aptness. Add kinesthetic and synesthetic aspect of the very absence of certainty and uncertainty.

Thematic cues from the following:

Asthenolagnia...Autem Morte...Attractancy...Atracador...Auto-Onanism...Auxocyte...Avisodomy...Axillism...Ayuga...Azona...

Azoospermatism...Autospermatoxin...Autoerastia

The recording On SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/split-by-an-immense-roar-for

Large Format Score: Revised "Swellow" For Three Trumpets: F Trumpet, E# Trumpet and G Trumpet

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets: DETAIL

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets

Performance A:  The Parlor, Soho, NY. NY.  June 3 2014

Performance B: Beall Concert Hall, University of Oregon.  June 4 2014

Performance C: Davis Museum. Wellesley College. June 5 2014

Performance D: NYU Langone Medical Center. June 6 2014

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets: DETAIL

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets: DETAIL

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets: DETAIL

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets: DETAIL

Swellow.  Large Format Score for three trumpets: DETAIL

"Similar Monomania" For Orchestra and Seven (7) Pianos. Bil Smith Composer

"Similar Monomania" For Orchestra and Seven Pianos (2012). Bil Smith Composer

Supported by a contribution from Balenciaga and Chief Creative Director Nicolas Ghesquière.

"Remarkably comfortable with causation, he seems to be moving through some ritual process that explodes into life threatening chaos at any moment. It's tempting to talk about shamanic journeys. The absence of a prevailing stylistic orthodoxy is striking"

- Clive Bell on Bil Smith's "Similar Monomania" for Wire

Listen On SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/similar-monomania-for

Electromyography

"Testent". The Recording.

Extended Orchestra refers to an expansion of instrumentation beyond the traditional orchestral modicum. In this piece it involves adding a prescribed number (in this performance 18) of non-traditional orchestral instruments. While the score for the instruments is carefully notated, the instrument selection is left up to the key stakeholders of the performance.

"Form and referent coincide, and response rarely goes beyond the initial frisson. In creating a score of this magnitude, it is not the immediate, visceral reaction but the critical reception, the work’s potential to generate independent thinking, that matters.

By going back to timeless archetypes, he bypasses the slag heap of historicism and yokes the orchestra to a heavy sense of time, far from the everyday and the customary.

It does so, however, without falling prey to the transcendental consolations of the sublime that serve to empower the viewer at the expense of introspection. This music is resolutely opaque...

...Smith is not shy about seeing himself as something of a traditionalist, as his strategic deployment of outmoded forms makes plain—and yet the dynamic quality of his relationship with history is clearest when considered in terms of his unconventional choices in instrumentation."

- Alexander Wong, "The Japan Times"

Listen on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/testent-for-extended-orchestra

The Chabian Score

Gustavo Chab and Score

"Contemporary Notation/Technique Bibliography" from Indiana University

"Contemporary Notation/Technique Bibliography" 

from Indiana University

http://www.indiana.edu/~sca/SCABibliography.pdf

"The 20th Century Trombone". A Resource for Composers and Performers by Kerry Jane Baldwin

"The 20th Century Trombone".   

A Resource for Composers and Performers 

by Kerry Jane Baldwin

http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/313184/1/techniques(revised).pdf

"Frolic" For String Quartet

A Look At Oulipo: "Luc Etienne Périn" for Prescript Chamber Ensemble

"Luc Etienne Périn" for Prescript Chamber Ensemble:  A Look At Oulipo

In 2010, I was approached by a unique individual by the name of Bernard Charron (not sure it was his real name). 

He asked me about my music and we moved onto the subject of literature and writing. This led to a lengthly discussion about the Oulipo and our respective opinions about their oeuvre. Some months later he contacted me and asked if I would be interested in writing short musical 'vignettes' as he described them, mimicking the Oulipian aesthetic utilizing my "compaction music" techniques.

I found the concept interesting, but at the time I was quite busy with other commitments. He returned to me several weeks later and stated that he had secured a grant from Société Générale Group to allow me to pursue this endeavor.

Luc Étienne Périn

Here I present one of a number of these works, composed for "Prescript Chamber Ensemble", performed by the members of the Juilliard Faculty in NY, The Boston Symphony, Ensemble Debrosses and The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Luc Étienne Périn, also known as Luc Étienne, (1908–1984) was a French writer and a proponent of 'pataphysics. He was born on 8 September 1908, in the small town of Neuflize, in the Ardennes, and died on 27 November 1984, in Reims.

After having studied in Charleville, he went on, in 1945, to teach mathematics and physics in a secondary school in Reims. In 1952, his first pataphysical works were published in the books of the College of 'Pataphysics, whose Regent and Chief of Practical Work he later became.

He published 'The Art of the Spoonerism' in 1957, and maintained until his death a weekly section of linguistic gaffes in the French satirical newspaper, Le Canard enchaîné.
In 1970, he became a member of the equally experimental Oulipo.

RECORDING:


"Luc Etienne Périn" for Prescript Chamber Ensemble on SoundCloud:

"Luc Etienne Périn" for Prescript Chamber Ensemble (Oulipo Posentante)

Luc Étienne Périn, also known as Luc Étienne, (1908–1984) was a French writer and a proponent of 'pataphysics. He was born on 8 September 1908, in ...

Kähler Manifold. Bil Smith Composer

Kähler Manifold

Commissioned by Kose, CHUO-KU, Japan

Bil Smith Composer

Contemporary Composition has a bad rap these days.  Some say it’s just intellectual masturbation — that you’ll spend your life engaging in an activity that you find stimulating but that will never produce anything of value.

I don’t think that’s right. Typically masturbation stays between you and the occasional family member who’s unfortunate enough to open the door without knocking. Composition, by contrast, is meant to be shared.

That’s why being a professional composer is more like making a living donating your gametes to strangers.  Masturbation might be involved, but if so it’s just the beginning.  Eventually you can spawn something great. 

One day someone might take one of your compositions out of storage, thaw it out, and implant it in a generation of fertile young minds.  So don’t worry if some poor benighted souls fail to see the value of your often-solitary labors.

Stockhausen's Gruppen. The Complete Score

Stockhausen's Gruppen

The Complete Score

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByXT8veODB_TOWgwSWNoWUxXZjg/view?usp=sharing

"Extended Techniques for Saxophone". A Guide for Performer & Composer. By Patrick Murphy

"Extended Techniques for Saxophone".  

A Guide for Performer & Composer.  

By Patrick Murphy

https://repository.asu.edu/attachments/110385/content/Murphy_asu_0010E_12819.pdf

"Harrison Birtwistle: His Music For Trumpet" by Kurt L. Bonnett.

Harrison Birtwistle:  His Music For Trumpet by Kurt L. Bonnett.

http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500192/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf

Disruptive Matter Ensemble

"Oblique Remarks, A Powerful Pull Which Dissolves Cells" 

for Pianos (Prepared, Toyed, Programmed, Isotropic, FibraMorphic, Bösendorfer I and II)

https://soundcloud.com/disruptive-matter-1/oblique-remarks-a-powerful

"Jevity"

"The brilliant discordance of New Complexity, the anarchic tumult of Free Jazz and the cascading melisma of Byzantine Chant all meld together into a hypnotic synthesis of a new Minimalism."

https://soundcloud.com/disruptive-matter-1/jevity

"Saracta" 

for Orchestras and Electronics (Celyan Diffuser, Xipbar, Refractive Evodium Resonators, Glass Neun with Radical Tone "Noxious" Pedal, EMS VCS 3 'The Putney') 2013

https://soundcloud.com/disruptive-matter-1/saracta-for-orchestras-and

Best, Best Drove. For Piano

"Sysdia" A Short Piece For Three Pianos. The Recording

Sysdia.  

A Short Piece For Three Pianos.

Bil Smith  

Recording.

https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/sysdia

"Surfaces of Inscription". Excerpt for String Quartet

"Marge Gu" For Piano

"For Fortunato Depero". Chamber Ensemble. The Full Score (PDF) Link

For Fortunato Depero. 

Chamber Ensemble.  

Bil Smith Composer

The Score (PDF)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5lqYq0XwE76clRqNzhpN1F6S1k/view?usp=sharing

"Prevalence" for Piano

Additional Photos: LNM's New Sub ContraBass Saxophone Under Construction by Benedikt Eppelsheim

The Finished Product