TAK Editions Podcast

Today's episode is a playlist of music we love. 0:48 CIHUANAHUALLI: Tlacualo (devorado / devoured) by Carmina Escobar 7:05 Delirious Delicacies by Nick Dunston 12:03 Pequeño tótem by Wilfrido Terrazas 18:20 and Dorothy never looked back by Patrick Shiroishi and Dylan Fujioka 25:41 7 fish in a desert byElena Rykova and Etienne Nillesen 32:21 for trumpet by Weston Olencki 37:44 Variation X by DM R --- CIHUANAHUALLI: Tlacualo (devorado / devoured) by Carmina Escobar https://awavepress.bandcamp.com/track/cihuanahualli-tlacualo-devorado-devoured Carmina Escobar is an extreme vocalist, improviser, sound and intermedia artist from Mexico City currently based in LA. https://carminaescobar.monster/ Justin Asher, Sound Engineer Scott Cazan, Mixing and Mastering --- Delirious delicacies by Nick Dunston https://outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/atlantic-extraction Nick Dunston is an acoustic and electroacoustic composer, improviser, and bassist. His work also embraces the fields of tape and instrument building. http://www.nickdunston.org/ Louna Dekker-Vargas: flute Ledah Finck: violin Tal Yahalom: guitar Stephen Boegehold: drums Nick Dunston: composition, bass --- Pequeño tótem by Wilfrido Terrazas http://wilfridoterrazas.weebly.com Wilfrido Terrazas is a Mexican flutist, improviser, composer and educator, whose work finds points of convergence between notated and improvised music, and approaches collaboration and collective creation in innovative ways. https://wilfridoterrazas.weebly.com/ From the album Be Prepared (Ápice, 2019) Wilfrido Terrazas, bass flute Recorded by Jesús Segura, Estudio Horizonte, Ensenada, Mexico, December 2017. Mixed and mastered by Ramón del Buey at El Palacio de Asturias, Mexico City, Spring 2019. Produced by Wilfrido Terrazas and Ápice. --- and Dorothy never looked back by Patrick Shiroishi and Dylan Fujioka https://patrickshiroishi.bandcamp.com/album/no-no Dylan Fujioka is a drummer and composer born and raised in Los Angeles. Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles. Patrick & Dylan went to high school together where they first started making music together. dylan fujioka - drums & percussion patrick shiroshi - sax & voice recorded at Dylan's house on the 15th of February, 2021 --- 7 fish in a desert by Elena Rykova and Etienne Nillesen: https://soundcloud.com/elenarykova/elena-rykova-etienne-nillesen-7-fish-in-a-desert A composer and interdisciplinary artist Elena Rykova explores a wide variety of genres in music and visual art. She brings together instruments and found objects, extending one through another and creating performative musical situations with a strong visual aspect. https://www.elenarykova.rocks/ Etienne Nillesen is a performer and composer from The Netherlands currently based in Cologne/ Germany. His work involves elements of conceptual and spontaneous composition, structured improvisation, performance, and sound art. https://etiennenillesen.com/ --- for trumpet by Weston Olencki https://westonolencki.bandcamp.com/album/solo-works Weston Olencki is a musician and sound artist living in Brattleboro, Vermont. They make varied work loosely centered around psychoacoustic perception, questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, sonic ecology, various mediated practices of listening and improvisation, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of rural space/time. http://www.westonolencki.com/ Recorded by Michael Coleman, assisted by Dominic Coles. Produced by Weston Olencki. --- Variation X by DM R From New 9 Variations: https://youtu.be/U6QZayX7Pgk Born and raised in Bogotá, DM R is currently based in NYC. She is a composer of electroacoustic music, a concert series curator in Columbia Composers, C3, CanvaSound, and a 90s anime aficionado. https://www.dmr.land/ released November 2, 2020 Composed, mixed by DM R Mastered by Murat Colak ® all rights reserved

Tyshawn Sorey is a multi-instrumentalist and composer born in Newark, New Jersey, known for his mastery and memorization of incredibly complex scores. He has performed nationally and internationally with his own ensembles, as well as artists such as Roscoe Mitchell, George Lewis, John Zorn, Claire Chase, Evan Parker, and Anthony Braxton, among many others. He has been commissioned by The Spektral Quartet, Ojai Music Festival, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and more recently Carnegie Hall and Opera Philadelphia. He was awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship. In this episode, Laura Cocks and Charlotte Mundy of TAK talk to Tyshawn about “Ornations,” written for TAK and featured on their album, Oor. To stream and purchase Oor: http://takensemble.bandcamp.com More about Tyshawn Sorey’s music: http://tyshawnsorey.com

Natacha Diels is a composer and performer whose work combines choreographed movement, improvisation, video, instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. With a focus on collage, collaboration, and the ritual of life as art, her compositions have been described as “a fairy tale for a fractured world” (Music We Care About). She is a member of the composer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse and the performance duo On Structure, and she teaches composition and computer music at the University of California, San Diego. In this episode, Laura Cocks and Marina Kifferstein of TAK talk to Natacha about “The Colors Don’t Match,” written for TAK and featured on their recent album, Oor. To stream and purchase Oor: http://takensemble.bandcamp.com More about Natacha Diels’ music: http://natachadiels.ccom Ensemble Pamplemousse’s quadruple album Lost at Sea: https://pamplemoussies.bandcamp.com/ Music video for The Colors Don’t Match: https://youtu.be/cpfwPgiJ7GY

Erin Gee is a composer and vocalist who has created, in her Mouthpiece series, an ephemeral world that expands the possibilities of the voice, leaving behind the constrictive structure of language, and replacing histrionic female vocals with a virtuosic mouth and a tabula rasa for an emotional palate. Begun as one piece for solo voice in 2000, the list of Mouthpieces has grown to over 30 works for orchestra, opera, vocal ensemble, large chamber ensemble and string quartet, which have been performed internationally with some of the top ensembles for new music. On this episode, Ellery and Charlotte of TAK talk to Erin about her piece Mouthpiece 28, featured on TAK's recent album, Oor. To stream or download Oor: http://takensemble.bandcamp.com For more about Erin Gee: http://www.erin-gee.com/ To watch TAK's music video of Mouthpiece 28: https://youtu.be/NqZY9q0R3tE The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n11/anne-carson/the-albertine-workout

Bethany Younge’s acoustic and electronic music explores the manifold kinesthetic properties of musical performance. For her, the act of music-making cannot be divorced from the physical presence of the human instigator. Her works often incorporate instrumental deconstruction, exaggerated movement, motion tracking, sounding costumes, and/or other aesthetic devices to sonically heighten corporeal expressivity. Younge is currently pursuing her DMA in Music Composition at Columbia University in New York. Her works have been featured in the 2016 and 2018 International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, Resonant Bodies Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The 16th International Young Composers Meeting, and many other festivals. She has worked with many ensembles including JACK Quartet, Distractfold, ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, TAK Ensemble, TILT Brass, Sputter Box, KLANG, Ereprijs Orkestra, Fonema Consort, AndPlay, Chartreuse, Gyre Ensemble, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble, Inversion Ensemble, Mocrep, and others throughout Europe and the USA. In 2016, she was awarded the Stipend Prize at the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt. She was also awarded a commission prize by National Sawdust, in New York City and the 10th Mivos/Kanter prize. Bethany was one of TAK's commissioned composers of the 2019-2020 season, and we premiered her work "at midnight I walked into the middle of the desert" at Saint Mary's Church in Harlem last fall. On today's episode, Bethany speaks with Merche Blasco, a multimedia artist and composer based in New York. Blasco designs and builds imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze embodied forms of live electroacoustic composition and new modes of listening. Through her constructed devices, she attempts to establish a more horizontal relationship with other entities, distancing herself from parameters of precision, power, and control. As an alternative form of performance, she engineers collaborative spaces with instruments that are given their own agency, in compositions where her body and the live exploration of organic materials are central elements. She has presented her performances and installations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Sonar Festival in Barcelona, La Biennale di Venezia, NIME conferences, Tsonami International Sound Art Festival in Chile, The High Line in New York, SONIC Festival, Mapping Festival (Geneva), Queens Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, among others. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Wire magazine. You can find Bethany online at: www.bethanyyounge.com You can find Merche online at: http://half-half.es/ https://soundcloud.com/mercheblasco @blasco.merche The music in this episode is all by Merche Blasco: RECONFIGURATIONS I: Conversations with Anette Shelley Hirsch – Voice Dafna Naphtali – Voice, electronics Levy Lorenzo – Percussion Dennis Sullivan – Percussion Merche Blasco – Anette Audio recording and mix: Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan Bardenas, live performance by The Rhythm Method Leah Asher, violin Marina Kifferstein, violin Carrie Frey, viola Meaghan Burke, cello EEMF03: Rinoceronte azul Christa Robinson ... Electric guitar + electric toothbrushes Alice Teyssier ... Antenna and piezoelectric collar Mosa Tsay ... Electric guitar + electric toothbrushes Viola Yip ... Antenna and piezoelectric collar Viento y Sierra Merche Blasco - Electronics and musical saw Rehearsal saws - recorded in Cleft Ridge Span in Prospect Park Gryphon Rue - Musical saw Merche Blasco - Musical saw This week's episode was produced by Bethany Younge in collaboration with TAK Ensemble, and edited by Marina Kifferstein.