It was the discovery of his first symphony (made while studying under Ferruccio Busoni) that made me completely surrender to Kurt Weill. So much craft in such a short life. Here is his Intermezzo, which as far as I know, I am the first to record and publish on the world wide web … hard to believe.
on youtube @gavcloud
#kurtweill #weill #intermezzo #piano #classicalmusic
Introducing a new composer pairing release, this time with @little_miss_echo & Hanns Eisler.
A pairing of works by two composers who exemplify pushing back against oppressive systems; both operate at the interventions oscillating between poles of hemispheric influence; both are embedded in film-music; the embrace of colloquial and popular musical idioms; the strategic blueprint of stylistic integrity; the yearning for home.
(post-script)
Having settled in Los Angeles in 1938, Eisler and his wife were deported after being blacklisted by the US House Committee on Un-American Activities in March 1948. His statement when leaving from LaGuardia Airport went as follows:
“I leave this country not without bitterness and infuriation. I could well understand it when in 1933 the Hitler bandits put a price on my head and drove me out. They were the evil of the period; I was proud at being driven out. But I feel heartbroken over being driven out of this beautiful country in this ridiculous way.”
#bandcamp #newmusic #piano #classical #modernclassical
1416 m³, the piece I wrote for David Lamelas, is having its NYC premiere on February 10 through the @diaartfoundation . Taking place at Dia Chelsea, it will be performed by @jackquartet & baritone @blumbertone
I extend my overwhelming thanks to David Lamelas, first and foremost for his trust and friendship, and to all the Dia staff who made this possible, especially Deputy Director of Program @hmbrtmoro , Manager of Exhibitions @alexis_penningtonfoster and the partnership and support from @islaa_nyc@thesalonny and @friezeofficial
Free. Spaces limited. Register for one of two performances 6PM & 7:30PM
#DavidLamelas #DiaArtFoundation #NYC #ChamberMusic #Composer
“So for me, that’s a subjective judgement … Nancarrow is simply the most important composer in our time. He made something completely original, totally different from what others did, on the highest level, on the level of Johann Sebastian Bach, or late Beethoven.”
—György Ligeti
Conlon Nancarrow’s Sonatina was the first piece composed while he was in exile in Mexico City. Its difficultly and complexity for human players eventually led him towards devising methods for creating the music for mechanical player piano, which would be able to realize his ideas while simultaneously expanding his sonic appetites and imaginative clarity.
Conlon Nancarrow
Sonatina For Piano
Mexico City, Mexico
1941
Performed by Gavin Gamboa
Kawee’nga Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States
2024 March 22
Artwork
@teddy.nava
#conlonnancarrow #piano #sonatina #series #gavcloud
Like A Villain In Anisotropic Birefringence
three live-code remix experiments of @holland.andrews
Birefringence is the phenomenon exhibited by certain materials in which an incident ray of light is split into two rays, called an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray, which are plane-(linear) polarized in mutually orthogonal planes, or circular-polarized in opposite directions (left and right).
Anisotropic birefringence in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is exactly the kind of subtle clue that could mean the cosmos has a hidden bias baked into its very fabric. The twist at the boundaries of magnitude express unseen dimensional fringe interactions.
Listen here 🔗
https://gav.cloud
or 🔗
https://faircamp.gavart.ist
#remix #livecode #tidalcycles
Fantasia e ricercare
Recorded a year ago at Cincinnati Music Hall for a program developed by @fourlarks and the @cincysymphony with conductor Matthias Pintscher, it is a nearly hour-long baroque improvisation for harpsichord.
available on @bandcamp / faircamp / @mirlo.space
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Gavin Gamboa, harpsichord
Cincinnati Music Hall
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
2024 October 16
Live Recording Engineer
Mike Ingram
Artwork
Alpine Scene (detail)
Gustave Doré
1865
Special Thanks
@mat.swe@sebrador@inlovewithyofi@cincysymphony
#baroque #improvisation #cincinnati #classical #newmusic #gavcloud #classicalmusic #liverecording #neobaroque #faircamp #mirlo #bandcamp #musician
For the third issue of the Sonatina Series I focus on Sonatina 3 ad usum infantis Madeline M.* Americanae by Ferruccio Busoni, a gentle, melodic and visionary work of deceptively rigorous and integrated construction, deriving all of its motivic elements and structure from the very first few bars, and alluding to his thinking on the course of new music as exemplified in his treatise Absolute Melody (1913). I detect in it his continuing fascination and admiration of Native American cultures as also explored in his Indianisches Tagbuch, and its reflections of America and childlike wonder abound in a stridently beautiful approach using free polyphony and techniques of augmentation, inversion, and variation. It is at once charming and disarming in its trajectory. Busoni wrote in 1916:
“My heart... is in a state of adolescence again; shy and full of longing and lacking practical impact.”
Thus we find the composer reveling and reacquainting himself with the freedom and exploratory mind of a beginner, using the sensibility of someone who at this time was already considered a great master and one of the leading figures of the avant-garde in Berlin.
Sonatina Series • 3
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Sonatina 3 ad usum infantis Madeline M.* Americanae
1916
Gavin Gamboa, piano
Kawee’nga Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States
2024 February 17
Artwork
@teddy.nava
#busoni #FerruccioBusoni #Sonatina #piano #gavcloud #classicalmusic #20thcentury #modernist #modernclassical #pianist #series #faircamp #bandcamp #mirlo
Violin
@maiani_da_silva
Piano / Composer
@gavcloud
Trichotomy for violin and piano (2015)
Produced, recorded and mixed by
Lewis Pesacov
Mixed at Ahata Sound
Los Angeles, California, United States
Videography & Edit
@louisng.wav
Lenson Productions
Presented by
@tmachinetv@tonestrukt
#ViolinSonata #MaianiDaSilva #ModernClassical #NewMusic #ChamberMusic #LosAngeles #Composer #Piano #Violin #ContemporaryClassicalMusic #Pianist #Violinist #Independent #SelfReleased #NotOnSpotify #gavcloud
