1 / 60
0:00/0:00
Trio
2023
Electronic Keyboard
Electronics
Piano
Tenor Saxophone
Unpitched Percussion
- Program Notes
- âAnd tonight he would drink from the waters of Cibola, yes, and it would taste like wine.â Taking loose inspiration from Stephen Kingâs post-apocalyptic epic âThe Standâ (1990), the work sets the ensemble into a synthetic and erratic environment of sound and light, depicting the struggle of the performers to âsingâ through their instruments and find new ways of expression to transgress their desolate surroundings. Bringing together the human and the artificial, the synthetic and the organic, the work presents a combination of live instrumental performance, electronics, light design and AI-generated sonic content (obtained from the neural network PRiSM SampleRNN) as an exploration of newfound ways of expression amidst an imagined posthuman landscape. Work commissioned by Ex-Sentia Ensemble, with generous support from the Fondation Nicati-de Luze.
- Recording Notes
- Recording from the world premiere as part of Ex-Sentia Ensemblel's 'Metabiome' tour in PROGR Aula (Bern, Switzerland)
- Performer Credits
- Ex-Sentia Ensemble / Miguel FernĂĄndez (tenor saxophone), Santiago Villar (percussion), Jacob Mason (piano/keyboard)