Friday, September 30, 2016
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Infinito Nero. Salvatore Sciarrino. The Complete Score and Video Performance
Infinito Nero. The Complete Score
Salvatore Sciarrino
Performance on You Tube by Sonor New Music Ensemble
Click Here For The Score
When Music Disappears... {La musique d'un certain terme}
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| 'intuniv" for String Quartet and Chimes. Recording on LNM (CD). Formerly found on SoundCloud. Recorded November 6, 2014 at Oktaven Recording Studios, NYC. |
When music disappears... because the composer insists.
Four works, Four recordings.
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| "Telephasio: Upside The Fandom" for Mezzo-Soprano, Bass Recorder, Valve Trombone, Viola I, Viola II, and Piano. RECORDING on LNM (CD). Formerly on SoundCloud. Recorded October 15, 2014 at 25th Street Recording Studios, Oakland, CA. DESTROYED. |
I placed certain constraints and requirements as to precisely what medium each recording was to be presented on and how long each work should be available.
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| "Impact Tilting - Clumps of Dried Air Weed Spinning Against Its Terminal Pier and Covered with Gnomic Meaningless Graffiti" Bil Smith Composer; 1998 and 2013. 1.0 and 2.0. Commissioned in 1999 by Bell Atlantic. Recorded on August 29, 2014 at The Parlor, NY, NY. Recording on LNM Label (CD). |
At first, it's there...on SoundCloud, on iTunes, on Amazon, on physical CD's (even at select Starbuck's) and then it leaves us.
Some hear it... Most never will.
In the case of these first four musical recordings, a total of 17 people heard them. They were from Denton, TX, USA; Nyasvizh, Belarus; Antsirabe, Madagascar; Hoboken, NJ, USA; Kopenick, Germany....etc.
Yes, there are scores. But no one will hear them again. (Hear...not see: that decision has not been made as of this writing)
It is a privilege as a composer, we control.
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| "Contingent Archipelago" for Woodwind Quintet and Piano. Recorded at Evolution Recording Studios, Oxford, England on November 20, 2014. Recording released on LNM Music. Formerly found on SoundCloud. |
In composition class, of which I foster confrontational views, this action was coined as "narcissistic, vain, self contained, binary and crazed."
Students, then in an attempt to brand the concept (a.k.a 'New Complexity) of 'musical elimination' cited the general disdain of composers to be lumped into any group and with that consensus, moved to create a nomenclature; a moniker. And a representative selection...
Destructural Narratology
Decontextualized Sonification
Eliminationalism
Blocked Discourse: (a polysyllogism)
Socratic Fallacy
Utopian Gestalt
Hypo-Atomism
Maybe I should find careers for them in the name development business.
- Bil Smith Composer
Monday, September 26, 2016
Extended Techniques for the Classical Guitar: A Guide for Composers and Performers
Extended Techniques for the Classical Guitar: A Guide for Composers
By Robert Allan Lunn
Extended Techniques for Saxophone by Iain Harrison: A Guide for Composers and Performers
Extended Techniques for Saxophone by Iain Harrison
Sunday, September 25, 2016
New Directions For Clarinet. A Guide For Performers and Composers
New Directions For Clarinet. A Guide For Performers and Composers
Revised Edition.
Phillip Rehfeldt
A Precriptive Indication.'Lanatrixa' A New Composition and Recording on Laboratorie New Music Label
"Lanatrixa" Bil Smith Composer:
Indicated for Treatment of Musical Performers with Myelofibrosis.
Listen on SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/bil-smith/lanatrixa-bil-smith-composerLanatrixa is indicated for treatment of musicians with intermediate or high-risk myelofibrosis, including primary myelofibrosis, post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis and post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis.
Dosage and Administration:
The starting dose of a Lanatrixa/Jakafi combination therapy is 5 mg twice daily for patients with a platelet count between 50 × 109/L and less than 100 × 109/L.Monitor complete blood counts every 2 to 4 weeks until doses are stabilized, and then as clinically indicated. Modify or interrupt dosing for thrombocytopenia.
Increase dose based on response and as recommended to a maximum of 25 mg twice daily for patients with starting platelet counts 100× 109/L or greater and to a maximum of 10 mg twice daily for patients with starting platelet count between 50 × 109/L and less than 100 × 109/L. Discontinue after 6 months if no spleen reduction or symptom improvement.
Dosage Forms and Strengths
Tablets: 5 mg, 10 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg and 25 mg.
Contraindications
None.
Warnings and Precautions
Thrombocytopenia, Anemia and Neutropenia: Manage by dose reduction, or interruption, or transfusion.
Risk of Infection: Assess patients for signs and symptoms of infection and initiate appropriate treatment promptly. Serious infections should have resolved before starting therapy with Lanatrixa
Adverse Reactions.
The most common hematologic adverse reactions (incidence >20%) are thrombocytopenia and anemia. The most common non-hematologic adverse reactions (incidence >10%) are bruising, dizziness and headache.
The starting dose of Lanatrixa is 20 mg given orally twice daily for patients with a platelet count greater than 200 × 109/L, and 15 mg twice daily for patients with a platelet count between 100 × 109/L and 200 × 109/L.
The Vocal Flute. Creative Uses of the Flutist's Voice in a Collaborative Context
The Vocal Flute.
Creative Uses of the Flutist's Voice in a Collaborative Context
By Marina Pereira Cyrino
'Illumbra' for Pique Angulated (Exemplum) Lyric Soprano
"Illumbra"...One word. One text. One Lyric. To be interpreted and re-interpreted utilizing lexical semantics, orthological deduction and phonological interpretation; while improvisatory, the method of realization also gives way to a refined chaos.
January 14, 2015. Ellen Gyoni, Soprano performed this work for 71 minutes and 17 seconds. She interjected a phonetic juxtaposition at the end of the performance articulating the word "pal, pal, pal in...so sara drone."
Saturday, September 24, 2016
The String Project for the CMOP Led by Renee Baker. A December, 2016 Project and Performance
This is the foundation of a new project which will consist of an all string music performance of my compositions by the esteemed member of the AACM, Renee Baker to debut in December, 2016.
"Recollectionist" for B Flat Trumpet .
There's this word... 'Phenom'. Just like the Williams sisters, performers can be 'Phenoms.'
Yes, I do purposely write music that may be unplayable and uninterpretable for the same reason Cage wrote the Freeman Etudes (Yes, he did, although in the back of his mind, he always hoped).
Today...all morning and afternoon in a rehearsal space on Charles Street in the West Village (NY).
Today, Jason Columba. Student of the Trumpet.
We will record this on Monday (The Second Recording) as I planned the realization of this piece to take months to accomplish.
It is exhilarating to find brilliant interpreters of your compositional efforts that live and breathe the work. Passionate and so entrenched/entranced by the prospect to be the first to accomplish what others can not do.
It's a complete event and a complete day. I'm going to find some wine now.
"Recollectionist" for B Flat Trumpet . Thanks to Fox, Vivendi, and Black Rock for the opportunity to make this a realization.
Friday, September 23, 2016
The "Event" Score. “False in the Sense of Coexistent or Alternate” Bil Smith Composer.
“False in the Sense of Coexistent or Alternate” Bil Smith Composer A Word Event Score for One Performer, acting in a dual role as a Violin/Viola Practitioner and Neologist
A New Event Score with Leo Chinasky (Violin/Viola) performing (for a long time).
This was a very fortunate opportunity and I sincerely thank Citi for their kind assistance and support for Leo and the commitment to the recording which will appear on the Laboratorie New Music label when completed.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
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