6 Scenes for Turntables and Orchestra

TITLE: 6 scenes for turntables and orchestra Scene 1: The First Scene Scene 2: Screech (recit.) Scene 3: Organ Tones Scene 4: Milford Graves in heaven Scene 5: Beat juggle shuffle Scene 6: Harp Whip (recit. and chorus) COMPOSERS: Mariam Rezaei and Mtthew Shlomowitz COMPLETED IN 2023 DURATION: 22 minutes PERFORMERS: Mariam Rezaei (turntables), Ilan Volkov (conductor) and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Commissioned by the Darmstadt Summer Course, ICTUS, deSingel, Brussels Philharmonic and nyMusikk WEBPAGES https://mariamrezaei.com/ https://shlom.com/ TEXT ABOUT WORK Mariam and I did not write a programme note and don\u27t really want to say much. I can tell you that the nature of the collaboration is that Mariam and I each have roles, but we very much composed the work together. My role was to compose the orchestral music and Mariam composed her own part. Sometimes I would compose something and she would add her part, other times she would send me a recording of something she had made and I would write orchestral music around it. We worked out the form together. The work is heterogeneous in terms of musical style, between scenes and even within scenes. We wanted to make a divine collision of lots of things we love. The piece also references the soloist/orchestra dynamic with allusions to recitative and the concerto. BIOGRAPHIES Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award winning composer, turntablist and performer. She previously led experimental arts project TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and in November 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists, in recognition of her contribution to music composition. Her music has recently been described as ‘genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) and ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (4* The Guardian 2022). Recent release ‘BOWN’ (Heat Crimes) charted no.6 in Wire Magazine and no10 in The Quietus’ ‘Albums Of The Year 2023’, was album of the week in The Quietus and is described as ‘harnessing extreme technical prowess - phenomenal stuff’ by Boomkat. Recent performances include Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Ch\ue1vez at Counterflows Festival 2023 (Glasgow)/ REWIRE 2023(Den Haag), soloist with Frankfurt Radio Orchestra for the closing concert at IM Darmstadt 2023, soloist with London Sinfonietta at HCMF 2023 and Taipei Biennial 2023 in a quartet with Dj Sniff, Rex Chen and Dj SlowPitchSound. Matthew Shlomowitz is a London based composer, raised in Adelaide, Australia. Many of his works are grouped into series: Letter Pieces are open score works combining physical action and music; hisPopular Contexts pieces combine recognisable recordings with instrumental music; performance-lecture works addressing aesthetic issues, such asLecture About Bad Music; and a new series titled Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders. Other works include Electric Dreams, an opera staged at 2017 ORF Musikprotokoll as winner of the Johann Joseph Fux Opera Composition, with a second production in 2023 at Grand Th\ue9\ue2tre de Gen\ue8ve; Gl\ufccklich, Gl\ufccklich, Freude, Freude, written for keyboardist Mark Knoop and the SWR Symphonieorchester and premiered at 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage; and Minor Characters, a one-hour show written with composer/singer Jennifer Walshe for Ensemble Nikel. VIDEO/SOUND Here is the recording from the first performance from HR radio in Frankfurt. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7o5os0a8d0sdtb4v4i3nl/EditMix-Shlomowitz-pkn.mp3?rlkey=7eapoq6gd5zxx8xw8nicb6pgm&dl=

Producción en masa del azúcar cubano, 1899-1929: Economías de escala y elección de técnicas

Editada en la Universidad Carlos IIICiertos cambios tecnológicos dotaron a Cuba de una de las industrias azucareras más avanzadas del mundo en la primera mitad del presente siglo. En este trabajo mostramos cuantitativamente que las técnicas de producción en la fabricación de azúcar, como en muchas otras industrias de elaboración, experimentaron enormes incrementos en sus escalas óptimas debido a la adopción de tecnologías de proceso continuo y de producción en masa. En Estados Unidos estas mismas tecnologías de proceso continuo fueron las que anunciaron la revolución en la gestión administrativa al estilo Chandler. En Cuba, la gran fábrica azucarera de comienzo de siglo, para adoptar una perspectiva global, no era el latifundio de antaño; era un elemento de la gran empresa industrial del siglo XX, e indicaba participación global y liderazgo industrial en las técnicas recientemente transformadas de fabricación del azúcar.Technological changes gave Cuba one of the most technically advanced cañe sugar industries in the worid in the first part of this century. In this paper, we show quantitatívely that production techniques in sugar manufacturing, as in many other processing industries, underwent enormous increases in their optimal scales due to the adoption of continuous-processing technologies and mass production. These same continuous- Processing technologies were those which heralded the managerial revolution á la Chandler. In Cuba, the large tum-of-the-centuiy sugar enterpríse, to take a global pers- Pective, was not the latifundio of antiquity; it was an element of the large industrial encrprise of the twentieth century, and it was a mark of global participation and industrial leadership in the newly transformed techniques of sugar manufacture.Publicad

Listening Styles

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Earth Breeze Smoke

For 2 recorders; 11 minutes. Commissioned by The Brugge Concertgebouw (Belgium

Line and Length

For soprano saxophone, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet and bassoon; 9 minutes. Commissioned by Spitalfields Festiva

Where are we now?

This article offers generalised reflections on current aesthetic interests and values within the field of new music. Critical composition and postmodernism are considered for the relevance these historic positions might hold today. Then two important trends of the past decade are presented: first, music that draws attention toward the sounding shape and act of listening, reflecting the recent surge of interest in materialism across academic and artistic disciplines; and second, pieces that include aspects such as physical action, lighting and theatrical approaches to expand the possibilities of concert hall work beyond the purely sonic.</p

Explorations in polytonality and other musical wonders, volume 4

2023 15 minutesQuartet for 2 synthesisers, percussion and drum-kitCommissioned by Hochschule der Künste BernIn five movements* 8-bit gliss* Anticipatory funk* Atonal shuttle* Hetero ballad* Lofi not to study t