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Afternoon post-nap earworm: I woke up from a pleasant nap with "What should I say, Elysium IV" by Elysian Fields @MaraisThe maraisproject.com.au/elysian-fields/ playing in my head. Nice way to wake up.
2/ And here's another lovely piece by The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @MaraisThe ft. Jenny Eriksson which shows the electric viola da gamba in action: "After 'Le Badinage' by Marin Marais."
3/ The first video above is the promo video for @MaraisThe debut CD "What should I say": "Juxtaposing powerful World War II imagery with an idyllic love story, the short film draws deeply on the CD’s profound emotional content." Here it is from the start:
4/ More modern viol music: "Letter O" for multilayered violas & violas da gamba. Music from "Tessellatum" composed by Donnacha Dennehy donnachadennehy.com & performed by Nadia Sirota @nadiasirota on violas & Liam Byrne liambyrne.net on viols.
5/ "Tessellatum" tessellatum.com is a 40-minute music video piece with 11 layers of viol & 4 layers of viola with loads of microtones (achieved by tying extra frets onto the viol neck) & animation by Steven Mertens @StevenStMertens. Available here: bedroomcommunity.bandcamp.com/album/tessella…
6/ There's more information about "Tessellatum" in this Mini-Documentary directed by Meade Bernard @meadebernard:
7/ Here's a great viol Kickstarter by Dr. Phillip W. Serna @PhillipWSerna: "Shattered Glass is a viola da gamba recording project focused exclusively on New Music by Women Composers." It's got a ways to go to its goal and 21 days left. I hope it makes it. kickstarter.com/projects/phill…
8/ Phillip Serna @PhillipWSerna, who started the above Kickstarter, is a generous gambist who runs the Viols In Our Schools project @ViolsInSchools . He's also part of the ViolMedium @ViolMedium duo, here playing music by Béla Bartók on 2 viols:
9/ Here's a lovely piece excerpt combining the viola da gamba and pole-dancing. Via @MaraisThe #poledancingviol
10/ This is a recent 'psuedo-post-neo-classical' piece by Lewis Coenen-Rowe @LewisCoenenRowe, with Chris Terepin @stringamphibian switching between viola da gamba and cello:
11/ Speaking of contemporary music and the viol, here's gambist Robert Smith @cellodagamba playing Metallica's "One" on the viola da gamba:
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