Performance techniques used in music to describe unconventional or unorthodox techniques of singing or of playing musical instruments.
Improvised music concert, April 23, 2008
Improvise Music concert, April 23, 2008
Concert of improvised music, February 27, 2008
Excerpt from improvised music concert, 2-27-09
Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and American composer/improviser David Wessel perform a series of solos and duos. Violist Nils Bultmann joined them for the final piece of the evening.
Concert excerpt. June 18, 2009
The large-scale form for ME mirrors the classic seven yogic steps as follows:
1. Preconscious ME, Open Vowel Space
2. ME Builds the Language Wall
3. ME Sings His Narcissistic Canon
4. ME Sings His Greatest Song
5. ME Speaks to the Crowd.
6. ME Speaks to His Prompter
7. ME Is Cast Into the Future and Dies
Edmund Campion, music
John Campion, text and concept
HOLD That Thought for string orchestra and computer driven electronics
2004
Hold that Thought, Gaunajuato Symphony, Mexico (premiere),
Hold that Thought, University Symphony, Berkeley
Melt me so with thy delicious numbers (duration 5-8') is written for solo cello, or solo violin, or solo viola with live interactive computer accompanist. The project was started in 2002, and as with all computer based music it is in continual revision.
MeltME-Rose-CD.mp3
Ellen Ruth Rose, Improvising Violist
