LIMITED EDITIONS

CONFLUENCE

Magda Mayas composed this piece for an octet comprised of a who's who of the avant-garde. The score consists of 12 photos taken over an hour or so, observing the merging waters of the Rhône and the Arve rivers, the artificial wall dividing them, the earthy, blue and green colors blending. There are as many defining differences as similarities, depending on what one pays attention to but after a while the differences become apparent. A variety of angles, hues, light, excerpts, focusing on one or the other river or on the in-between areas. The score offers the possibility to focus on tiny details, transitional areas, or to stay in one area for a long time over the course of a concert.

crédits

paru le 14 mai 2021

Magda Mayas - piano, composition
Angharad Davies - violin
Anthea Caddy - cello
Aimée Theriot - cello
Rhodri Davies - harp
Zeena Parkins - harp
Michael Thieke - clarinet
Christine Abdelnour - saxophone

licence

BINARIO

Things That A Mutant Needs To Know: More Short And Amazing Stories

Reinaldo Laddaga / Various Artists

A collection of fifty-five short tales and fifty-five brief music pieces composed by a momentary collective of eighteen musicians.

 

Texts

Reinaldo Laddaga has created the fictional second volume of an anthology that Argentinean writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares published in Buenos Aires in 1956. The result is an enchanting and somber collection of very short texts, where the most diverse authors (from Lucian of Samosata to Virginia Woolf, from Emmanuel Swedenborg to Blaise Cendrars) tell stories of walking trees, burning dresses, illnesses mysteriously cured and deaths surprisingly reversed.

Music

Sonic interpretations of the stories composed by artists and musicians often previously featured on Unsounds. The pieces were created specifically, as personal reactions to the texts and their resonances. From a rich and diverse collection of materials, Reinaldo Laddaga and Yannis Kyriakides have assembled a double CD that is a powerful complement to the reading of the stories, but can be also approached as a self-standing sound work.

Composers

Christine Abdelnour, Claudio Baroni, Justin Bennett, Sylvia Borzelli, John Butcher, Alan Courtis, DJ Sniff, Barbara Ellison, Ron Ford, Yannis Kyriakides, Anne LaBerge, Reinaldo Laddaga, Francisco López, Machinefabriek, Andy Moor, Gabriel Paiuk, Santiago Santero and Felipe Waller.

 

 

“Things That A Mutant Needs To Know: More Short And Amazing Stories” is curated by Reinaldo Laddaga, and published by Unsounds as a book with two CDs and as enhanced eBook, with illustrations and design by Isabelle Vigier.

 

SIXTY INTERPRETATIONS OF SIXTY SECONDS BY SIXTY SOLO IMPROVISERS

SIXTY INTERPRETATIONS OF SIXTY SECONDS BY SIXTY SOLO IMPROVISERS 

 

Compiled by DAVID SALT

APPRISE RECORDS

 

PRICE : 12 EUROS

NO DENMARK

 

DUOS WITH Jakob Riis

 

OLOF BRIGHT RECORDS, 2010

 

PRICE / 12 EUROS

THOUGHTS FROM SCREECHING LAKE

COMPILED BY SINGING KNIVES IN AUTUMN 2009

 

Price : 10 euros

DATA / LOW-FI DUETS

CEDARHEAD

AL MASLAKH.

 

DUOS WITH MICHAEL ZERANG ( With Sharif Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj ...)

 

Price : 12 euros