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Montagne Pelée, for baritone saxophone & optional Rubens tube

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This is the video of the premiere of the piece Montagne Pelée , for solo baritone saxophone , with optional Rubens tube . Montagne Pelée was inspired by saxophonist Kenneth Tse ’s interaction with the flames of a Rubens tube built by Dale Stille at the University of Iowa. It is also an echo of the 1902 catastrophic eruption of Mount Pelée in the Island of Martinique. The different parts of the piece trace a story from early fumaroles and eruptions to the pyroclastic surge to the remaining ashes and light. I composed the multiphonic sounds on a Yamaha baritone saxophone, model YBS-62ii. In the score, the pitch notation of the multiphonic sounds is approximative; in most cases, only two pitches are written even if more may be heard. The performer may adapt the fingerings if necessary. The piece was premiered on October 6, 2025 at the University of Iowa, featuring an introduction by Professor of Physics Frederick Skiff. Interesting: the Rubens tube was invented in 1905, 60 years a...
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Who are the Tortured Poets?

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The Tortured Poets Department Taylor Swift Missa brevis Abbaye de Thélème Anika Kildegaard Composed & produced by Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, and Taylor Swift Composed & produced by Jean-François Charles Fortnight, written by Taylor Swift , Jack Antonoff , and Austin Post The Tortured Poets Department, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys, written by Taylor Swift Down Bad, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff So Long, London, written by Taylor Swift & Aaron Dessner But Daddy, I Love Him, written by Taylor Swift & Aaron Dessner Fresh Out The Slammer, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff Florida!!!, written by Taylor Swift & Florence Welch Guilty as Sin?, written by Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?, written by Taylor Swift ...
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Interview on Metaclassique

David Christoffel is a composer, an author, and a radio producer. I was thrilled to be invited on his classical music program Metaclassique . We met in July in Paris. The program is now available (in French): Metaclassique #349 - Allier - electronic & acoustic music . We discussed the music from Jamshid Jam (duet with Ramin Roshandel) and my Electroclarinet series. On the program Collaborations between electronic and acoustic music are laboratories for musical forms that are invented through timbre alloys. A three-part journey with Patrick-Astrid Defossez , Jean-François Charles , and co-composers Olivier Delevingne and Benoît Menut .
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From Polarity to Plurality Concert

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Monday, October 6, 7:30pm, Voxman Building, Opera Studio My colleague professor Matthew Arndt emcees the first of seven presentations of an intergalactic music poetics. As he says: " Drawing together ancient wisdom and modern science, this poetics aims at transmuting one’s experience of everything as music and living joyfully even as we work confidently toward an abundant future. " I am thrilled that Matthew Arndt invited me to curate the second part of the evening with compositions of mine. I am also thrilled that brilliant minds and artists from Iowa City are joining me on stage! Program Matthew Arndt presents the première of a video episode produced by Rabalais Productions with artisan animation by Auden Lincoln-Vogel. Legit , for trombone & live electronics, with Jonathan Allen Jamshid Jam & guest, for setar & live electronics with guest spoken word artist, with Ramin Roshandel and Jhe Russell Première of Montagne Pelée , for solo baritone saxop...
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Tenebrae nominated for German Quarterly Critic’s Choice

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The Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik is a prestigious non-profit organization dedicated to awarding prizes to the best new releases in recorded music. I am thrilled to see that our album Tenebrae was nominated for the Quarterly Critic's Choice in the category Electronic & Experimental Music . Check the complete list of nominees in all 32 categories .
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String Quartet & Clarinet by the Center for New Music

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I'm very thankful to David Gompper and the musicians who performed on April 20, 2025 my composition Nigritella nigra : Sayyod Mirzomurodov, clarinet Yestyn Griffith violin I Michael Klyce, violin II Kylie Little, viola Hanna Rumora, violoncello
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Workshop at Music Hackspace: ABL objects in Max 9 to get a better sound

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Music Hackspace is an online hub to learn hands-on how to work with art & technology. On Saturday, I was invited to give a workshop on the topic Max 9 - Get a better sound in Max using ABL objects . It was a great pleasure to meet musicians and share with them some of my experience with Max. If you are interested, there is a workshop on February 8 on a very close topic: Max 9: Adaptive audio fx systems with ABL and preset mixing . Although the technical concepts in Jordan Tyler Munson's and my workshop are almost the same, I'm sure we are presenting them in a different way. With Max, there's always another way of getting to the same goal, or a different way of using the same objects!
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