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New work for global hyperorgan at Orgelpark, Amsterdam
20 October 2024 6:50 PM | No CommentsA new piece for "global hyperorgan", commissioned by organist Randall Harlow to be presented in June of 2025 at Orgelpark, Amsterdam. The work will result in simultaneous performances in Amsterdam, Las Angeles, and Melbourne.
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CAGE | Bertoia record release
20 October 2024 6:43 PM | No CommentsWeighter Recordings release of CAGE | Bertoia, recorded at The Johnson Museum of Art by Kevin Ernste. All tracks improvised by CAGE (Kevin Ernste, Tim Feeney, Annie Lewandowski, and Christopher J. Miller) on sculptures by Harry Bertoia in the collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Recorded in the Museum in August 2015 by Kevin Ernste. Mixed and mastered by Kevin Ernste and Tim Feeney.
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Music in the American Wild: Interregnum
23 October 2018 3:49 AM | No CommentsThe Music in the American Wild audio and video albums, including my piece Interregnum for chamber ensemble and bowls of water are now available on iTunes/Apple Music (audio and video), Amazon, or through ArtistSharer.
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Music
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Seiend for brass quintet and live electronics
The title, Seiend (“Being”)--pronounced "zye-ent"--is a somewhat unused German participle found primarily in philosophical writings, referring to the 'true and honest self', a life lived without pretenses or embellishments. -
Roses Don’t Need Perfume for solo guitar and electronics
Roses Don't Need Perfume takes its title from a quotation by Uruguayan writer, philosopher, journalist, and historian Eduardo Galeano. -
Katafala for solo marimba, percussion quartet, and live electronics (2006)
Katafala takes its name from two ancient roots (Greek and vulgar Latin respectively), kata and fala “supported/sustained” and “down”, respectively. -
![To Be Neither Proud Nor Ashamed takes its title from Cecil Forsyth’s description of the saxophone in his 1913 orchestration text […]](http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/00071_22_2-1-120x120.jpg "To Be Neither Proud Nor Ashamed for alto saxophone and electronics (2003)")
To Be Neither Proud Nor Ashamed for alto saxophone and electronics (2003)
To Be Neither Proud Nor Ashamed takes its title from Cecil Forsyth’s description of the saxophone in his 1913 orchestration text […] -
![Birches was composed as a response to the poem of the same title by the great American poet, Robert Frost. […]](http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/performance_2-120x120.jpg "Birches for viola and electronic sounds (2002)")
Birches for viola and electronic sounds (2002)
Birches was composed as a response to the poem of the same title by the great American poet, Robert Frost. […] -
![Long Path was written in 2002 for my dear friend Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu for the occasion her final concert as […]](http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/lp1-120x120.png "Long Path for solo piano and tape narration (2001)")
Long Path for solo piano and tape narration (2001)
Long Path was written in 2002 for my dear friend Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu for the occasion her final concert as […] -
![The trumpet and flugelhorn have a lineage in the world of transmission and signals. A blast of sound across a […]](http://digital.music.cornell.edu/kevinernste/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/jason-120x120.jpg "Kajato for trumpet/flugelhorn and electronics")
Kajato for trumpet/flugelhorn and electronics
The trumpet and flugelhorn have a lineage in the world of transmission and signals. A blast of sound across a […]