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for flute, harps, percussion. A free and joyful improvisation reworked at the sequencer. |
CD: Concerto per Eleonora
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First tempo of the Violin Concerto I wrote for my daughter. A simple but very firm and expressive melody.
Production: July 2001 |
CD: Concerto per Eleonora
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"Dance of Vectorised Interrupts". The violin part was composed by a fractal music program I wrote in 1998, then I added a brass/percussion accompaniment.
Production: July 2001 |
CD: Concerto per Eleonora
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"Cadenza-Lion's Step". Algorithmically composed and manually rendered for an improbable solo "hyper-violin".
Production: July 2001 |
CD: Concerto per Eleonora
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Scherzo ("Terribilio"). In 4 sections, all derived from the initial violin phrase. |
CD: Concerto per Eleonora
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"Puscanti (=requiescat) in Pace". Dark, noisy and sacral, with a sudden opening of clear sky in the middle. |
CD: Concerto per Eleonora
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for pop orchestra |
CD: Miroirs 1
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A MIDI morph between J.S.Bach's 2nd Brandeburg Concerto and an hungarian popular song transcribed by Zoltan Kodaly. The rhythms come from Bach, the harmony from Kodaly. Rendering for jazz quartet: pian, guitar, bass, brush set. January 2003. |
CD: Third-Hand Music
Credits: Christina, the "short-haired fairy" |
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Algorithmic composition. It is based on Renaissance tunes and uses Pythagorean temperament. A sort of mid-XX century neoclassical piece. June 2003. |
Credits: Paul Whalley for "Poodles and Flan" |
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Algorithmic composition, April 2003. The only experimental thing in this piece is the way it is composed, otherwise it's a straightforward classical piece. |
Credits: Paul Whalley for "Poodles and Flan" |
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for piano, keyed percussions and small orchestra. Partially algorithmic variations on Messiaen-like 'bird' patterns. Production: august 2003 |
CD: Ligdaddlig
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February 2003, for large virtual orchestra. Builds up slowly from an extreme pianissimo to a clangorous tutti, then decays to nothing. Mainly based on the interval of fourth. Quite long (25'). |
CD: Tales from the Mist
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A short piece for solo french horn. |
CD: Ligdaddlig
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another small piece for solo french horn |
CD: Ligdaddlig
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"Fairy Sounds in a Cave". For virtual amplified string quartet and ambient sounds. February 2003. |
CD: Tales from the Mist
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"We went Away on a Rainy Morning". For virtual microtonal string quartet and ambient sounds. February 2003. |
CD: Tales from the Mist
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"Voices of Wars on the Seashore". For virtual string quartet and ambient sounds. February 2003. |
CD: Tales from the Mist
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"Nothing Left Here but Dust and Sorrows". For virtual string quartet and ambient sounds. The whole Quartet is a very, very sad piece, I tried to put in it all the worries for the upcoming war. February 2003. |
CD: Tales from the Mist
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For orchestra. A vision suddenly brokes out of the clouds with a horn theme developing into a climax following by a fugato of the strings. The vision disappears in the halo of a vibraphone. Production: July 2001 |
CD: Miroirs 1
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30 May 2003, in memoriam Luciano Berio. New version revised August'03. |
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So we torture again our Old Grand Master Bach.. please relax and have a good time. For trumpet and the other usual stuff. May 2003. |
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Hey Johann Sebastian, here we go again. Trumpet against out-of-tune orchestra. May 2003. |
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Several computer-generated variations on the Study Op.10 n.5 by Chopin, made with my custom MIDI transforming software and hand-edited later. How they say here..? "Exhilarating"? |
CD: Jean-Loup Garou
Credits: Robert Finley for the original MIDI file |
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for cembalo. Pitch-mirroring of 'Les Baricades Mysterieuses' by Francois Couperin, with some adjustments.
Production: October 2001 |
CD: Miroirs 2
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My contribution to the Christian Minimalism®. For boring solo cello, boring string orchestra and very boring priestly chants. Production: November 2001 |
CD: Miroirs 2
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"Obracs" is, as you can see, the reverse of "Scarbo".
No. 3 from "Trois pilules pour un gaspard malade". Production: October 2002 |
CD: Jean-Loup Garou
Credits: Maurice Ravel |
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From "The Retrograde Planets": Mercury. For piano and orchestra. Piano cadences by Jarl Sigurd, reworked into musical meaningful stuff.
November 2002. |
CD: Third-Hand Music
Credits: David Siu for the original Holst MIDI file |
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A pitch and time mirror of "Venus" from The Planets by Holst, with a lot of reworking. Production: July 2001 |
CD: Miroirs 1
Credits: David Siu,M.D. for the original MIDI file |
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for string orchestra and percussion. My reaction to the WTC tragedy, it already appeared on "A Musical Gallery of the September 11 Tragedies" at http://kalvos.org/tragedy.html. |
CD: Miroirs 1
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For piano 4-hands. A proliferation of computer-generated "classical" patterns over
five well-known children songs. Production: December 2002 |
CD: Jean-Loup Garou
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It is a "fractal" melodic line variously streched and
superposed on itself, in a kind of slow and quiet orchestral study. Nothing really new, actually, but quite enjoyable.
Production: October 2002 |
CD: Third-Hand Music
Credits: The Roland Symphonic Orchestra logically conducted by Emil Agic ;-) |
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A little piece to celebrate the New Year 2003 and the birth of a friend's daughter. For clarinet alone. |
CD: Tales from the Mist
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My first attempt at pitch mirroring. I started from a MIDI file of the Clarinet Concerto by S.Mercadante, sped up it a bit and arranged it for tuba and small orchestra, with a trumpet half-way between baroque and spaghetti western.
The title comes from the fact that Mercadante was born in Altamura (southern Italy)
Production: July 2001. |
CD: Miroirs 1
Credits: MIDI archive at www.karadar.it; St.Irene, patron of Altamura |
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for clarinet and tape.A clarinet ( the cat) plays against two others, electronically modified. The piece is based on the series from 'The Owl and the Pussycat' by Stravinsky.
Production: November 2001 |
CD: Miroirs 2
Credits: Mariangela 'the Cat' |
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Algorithmic composition for choir a cappella, april 2003. Between a mellotron and a Ligeti on acid. "rate neire" in my dialect means "black rats". |
Credits: Paul Whalley for "Poodles and Flan" |
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"Vergine Bella", canzone 366 by Petrarca
My version of the Wuorinen version of the Dufay version, with bells&whistles to make US people happy. |
CD: Miroirs 2
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Mirroring of a piece by Cipriano Rore (ca. 1550) in two renderings: "Santa Claus" and "Bugs Bunny" |
CD: Miroirs 2
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For cembalo. Looks like I got this piece out of Conlon Nancarrow's dumpster one day he probably had an headache attack. The piece evolves from atonality to a kind of spanish firework in E major. Production: July 2001 |
CD: Miroirs 1
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Mars by G.Holst, time reversed and and pitch class mirrored through a custom
software, and arranged for 2 pianos and percussion. Realization: September 2002 |
CD: Third-Hand Music
Credits: Gustav Holst; David Siu for the original MIDI file |
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