Discography.
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Unseen- Michael Torke
UNSEEN (2024) is the fourth composition and recording that completes a tetralogy of work; BEING (2020), PSALMS AND CANTICLES (2021), and TIME (2022) have preceded it.
Unifying these four projects is the use of syncopated rhythms caused by the intersection of 3’s against 2’s, which through their interlocking, creates a unified rhythmic effect, or groove. Melodies and harmonies flow from the rhythms used.
What sets UNSEEN apart from the other three is the size of the group: a full orchestra. I brought together musicians I’ve worked with in New York with the strings of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra. The scope is larger and the color possibilities more varied when writing for orchestra, compared to chamber groups. Colossal timbres can be achieved with a full brass section, woodwinds in pairs can provide scintillating pinpoints of light, and a full string section gives a sheen of richness (through the accumulation of minute pitch variation) as well as the particularity of unified bow strokes.
The title, UNSEEN, comes from the Nicene Creed “…creator of all things, seen and unseen.” We are a visual people—we take in the world primarily through our eyes. But what we value the most are things that can’t be seen: feelings, ideas, energy, accomplishment, memories, contentment.
What I seek in these four projects is a way for music to take us outside of ourselves. If through its rhythms and harmonies we give up a literal grip on the now, such experience opens the potential of renewal and even a kind of cleansing joy. -Michael Torke
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Talking to Myself- Aerial East
Aerial East’s music explores the space between the conscious and unconscious mind, between what was and what will be. She dives into what she has known - adolescence, heartbreak, coming into a new social consciousness, and managing a perpetual unanchored-ness - in order to find a most surprising place to rest inside: the unknowable.
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Three Paths Through Static- Dice Trio
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A Room of Dry Plants, A Compilation- Sadnoise
This release is a collection of collaborative work from 2020-2024. This work is a part of the ritual collection, representing ideas of the drum circle, and collective ritual practice, a wholeness and connection, a place of many tongues.
This album features collaborations with:
Adrian Ocone
Mark Cetilia
John McKenna
Adeline DeBella
Marie Carroll
Martin Baggarly
xlr sex (Femi Shonuga and Adrian Ocone)
Triplets (Femi Shonuga and Mark Cetilia)
craxynoise (Marie Carroll and Femi Shonuga)
Album art by claireclaire