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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

Saturday 11 April 7PM @publicrecordsnyc

I am joining @mmmmjjjjjjjj new sextet on keys for an evening of blistering sonic seasonings and sensory percussion, unveiling Max’s new record “You Want That Too!” on @colorfieldrecords for our East Coast family.

featuring @darian.donovan.thomas @stuartbogie @noralstanley @stomu_takeishi

@tredicibacci opens • Tsons of Tsunami
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ticket link in bio

☁️✨

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

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

Opening for the one and onlys @genevieveartadi @louiscolemusic @chiquitamagic at @liveatglasshill for a toasty afternoon of jammers

joining trio @mmmmjjjjjjjj @spencerzahn

and looking forward to seeing @raybellimusic @zachtenorio @jocieadams @arcirismusic again 😮‍💨💧🌠

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

playing with my ludicrous cosmofam @mmmmjjjjjjjj and friends for ＹＯＵ ＷＡＮＴ
ＴＨＡＴ ＴＯＯ! Record Release at @2220arts

featuring
@hand.habits
@jeffparkersounds
@danielrotm
@spencerzahn

with
@isaacalpertsherman + @shelleyburgon

released by @colorfieldrecords
🎟️ link in bio

#maxjaffe #recordrelease #losangeles #jazz #newmusic

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

🔗 https://gav.cloud

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

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

🔗 https://gav.cloud

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

𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕣 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕤𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟.

Disappearing Polymorph is out today (Bandcamp / Faircamp)

https://gav.cloud

#bandcamp #ambient #electronicmusic #drone #gavcloud #polymorph #crystal #newmusic

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