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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Mariam Rezaei
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a musical composition that has been published in its final definitive form by IM Darmstadt, 2023.
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TITLE: 6 scenes for turntables and orchestra Scene 1: The First Scene Scene 2: Screech (recit.) Scene 3: Organ Tones Scene 4: Milford Graves in heaven Scene 5: Beat juggle shuffle Scene 6: Harp Whip (recit. and chorus) COMPOSERS: Mariam Rezaei and Mtthew Shlomowitz COMPLETED IN 2023 DURATION: 22 minutes PERFORMERS: Mariam Rezaei (turntables), Ilan Volkov (conductor) and Norwegian Radio Orchestra. FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Commissioned by the Darmstadt Summer Course, ICTUS, deSingel, Brussels Philharmonic and nyMusikk WEBPAGES https://mariamrezaei.com/ https://shlom.com/ TEXT ABOUT WORK Mariam and I did not write a programme note and don't really want to say much. I can tell you that the nature of the collaboration is that Mariam and I each have roles, but we very much composed the work together. My role was to compose the orchestral music and Mariam composed her own part. Sometimes I would compose something and she would add her part, other times she would send me a recording of something she had made and I would write orchestral music around it. We worked out the form together. The work is heterogeneous in terms of musical style, between scenes and even within scenes. We wanted to make a divine collision of lots of things we love. The piece also references the soloist/orchestra dynamic with allusions to recitative and the concerto. BIOGRAPHIES Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award winning composer, turntablist and performer. She previously led experimental arts project TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and in November 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists, in recognition of her contribution to music composition. Her music has recently been described as ‘genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) and ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (4* The Guardian 2022). Recent release ‘BOWN’ (Heat Crimes) charted no.6 in Wire Magazine and no10 in The Quietus’ ‘Albums Of The Year 2023’, was album of the week in The Quietus and is described as ‘harnessing extreme technical prowess - phenomenal stuff’ by Boomkat. Recent performances include Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez at Counterflows Festival 2023 (Glasgow)/ REWIRE 2023(Den Haag), soloist with Frankfurt Radio Orchestra for the closing concert at IM Darmstadt 2023, soloist with London Sinfonietta at HCMF 2023 and Taipei Biennial 2023 in a quartet with Dj Sniff, Rex Chen and Dj SlowPitchSound. Matthew Shlomowitz is a London based composer, raised in Adelaide, Australia. Many of his works are grouped into series: Letter Pieces are open score works combining physical action and music; hisPopular Contexts pieces combine recognisable recordings with instrumental music; performance-lecture works addressing aesthetic issues, such asLecture About Bad Music; and a new series titled Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders. Other works include Electric Dreams, an opera staged at 2017 ORF Musikprotokoll as winner of the Johann Joseph Fux Opera Composition, with a second production in 2023 at Grand Théâtre de Genève; Glücklich, Glücklich, Freude, Freude, written for keyboardist Mark Knoop and the SWR Symphonieorchester and premiered at 2019 Donaueschinger Musiktage; and Minor Characters, a one-hour show written with composer/singer Jennifer Walshe for Ensemble Nikel. VIDEO/SOUND Here is the recording from the first performance from HR radio in Frankfurt. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7o5os0a8d0sdtb4v4i3nl/EditMix-Shlomowitz-pkn.mp3?rlkey=7eapoq6gd5zxx8xw8nicb6pgm&dl=0
Composer(s): Rezaei M, Shlomowitz M
Publication type: Musical Composition
Publication status: Published
Year: 2023
Publisher: IM Darmstadt
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/21m0-4982
