SUITE FOR DROWNING - A Live concert, took place on May 16th, at 8pm in the Old Little Theatre in Santa Barbara. The performance was a collaboration between Lucian Parisi and the other members of the Drowning Quartet.
The Drowning Quartet project is managed by lucianparisi@gmail.com
About the project:
Suite for Drowning is a collection of musical works directly inspired by near death aquatic experiences on the California Coast. This suite of live electroacoustic pieces explores the vastness of the ocean, natural forces, biological fear responses, out of body experience, and after-life.
This project began in the Fall of 2023 as a piano piece after a near-drowning experience. The piece, Barely Afloat, sparked many stylistic changes in my work. Suite for Drowning is a realization of subsequent experiments in composing coastal granular chamber music. Electronics are taken from my last two albums, Lagoon and Riparian Forms, as well as unreleased recorded material.
Audio in this performance makes use of granular layering, physical manipulation, live electroacoustic processing, looping, microtonality, feedback, and other techniques. Each piece is notated as a custom open-score, based around waveforms, textural and tonal changes, and queues.
This music draws inspiration from Tigran Himasyan, Mabe Fratti, Nico Georis, Steve Reich, L’rain, and Floating Points.
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The album is streaming on all platforms.
Scores and more info are available at lucianparisi.com