2 live excerpts from the Edge Ensemble's latest project: a new semi-improvised soundtrack to F.W. Murnau's classic 1927 silent film SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS To create the soundtrack, the ensemble immersed themselves in the film, watching, debating, exploring, extracting and considering every poetic interpretation they could imagine. The end result was a unique map of the film, dividing it into 6 acts, where each act has one unique emotion that grows or fades in intensity as the act progresses. This map serves as the ‘score’ upon which the ensemble improvises their soundtrack. Using a fascinating contemporary palette of sounds – synthesizer, voice, baroque viola, modern violin, thumps and whirs from inside the piano, subtle noises from the drums – the Edge Ensemble makes silent film into a provocative, modern experience. Brendan Faegre - director/drums/synth Elisenda Pujals - voice/violin James Hewitt - baroque viola Christof May - reeds/piccolo Marta Warelis - piano Vasilis Stefanopoulos - bass Performed at: Sounds of Silence De Nieuwe Regentes The Hague, Netherlands 8 March 2019 More info: https://brendanfaegre.com/projects/sunrise/

Excerpt from the CD L'anima oscura by Allegoria Ensemble. In this video: music by Bellerofonte Castaldi (1581-1649) Buy the cd: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/allegoriaensemble http://www.allegoriaensemble.com Elisenda Pujals, voice Guzmán Ramos, archlute Robert Cases, theorbo Hen Goldsobel, violone Recorded by Guido Tichelman in January 2014 in the Waalse kerk, Amsterdam. Ana Portela, dance June Yu, camera, Rodrigo Alves, editing Lyrics: Hor che la notte ombrosa Hor che la notte ombrosa Con tacito silentio il mondo cuopre Tu sola mi rispondi Echo amorosa Ma che? Se quell' empia e crudele Si sdegna d'ascoltar le mie querele Dunque chi dara fine a tanti guai? Tu con lamento mi rispondi E par che vi nascondi Che da lei pace non havrò già mai Se tanto asprezza in lei s'aduna A tra dia fine a si crudel fortuna Purtroppo il sò Che altri che quella Non pare a gli occhi miei Donna più bella Onde il pensier mi parla e dice Forsi col tempo diverrai felice Ben lieta sorte hà l'amor mio Se giunge al fin del suo dolce desio Tu del mio ben presaga a Dio Translation: Now that the shadowy night with tacit silence the world covers you alone answer me loving echo But what? If that wicked and cruel disdains to listen my complaints so who will give an end to such troubles? You answer me with lament and it seems that you hide that from her peace I will never have if so much bitterness in her is gathered to give an end to the cruel luck unfortunately I know what other than that doesn't seem to my eyes most beautiful woman whose thought speaks to me and says maybe with time you will become happy Glad fate has my love if it arrives to the end of her sweet desire you from my dear presage God

The Edge Ensemble's trailer for their new program with Victor Sjöström's THE WIND In their first multimedia project, the Edge Ensemble joins forces with Catalan soprano Elisenda Pujals for a semi-improvised soundtrack to Victor Sjöström's 1928 silent film THE WIND. In The Wind, a naive young woman from Virginia moves to Texas, where family, local suitors, and the incessant wind drive her to madness and murder. Four men of the Edge Ensemble embody the physical and psychological wind of the film; storms and tornadoes assault the small village, and dark thoughts assault the characters' minds. Pujals and her 'breath' (the bass clarinetist) represent the fear and madness of Letty, the lone woman and protagonist of this film. The Wind was a groundbreaking film in 1928, and through adding a radically contemporary soundworld, this production makes the film communicate strongly to a diverse audience in 2017. Brendan Faegre - director/drums Elisenda Pujals - voice James Hewitt - baroque violin Christof May - reeds Oscar Jan Hoogland - piano Vasilis Stefanopoulos - bass Tom Giles - sound Victor Sjöström - original film Giulio Quirici - live video Alex Schröder - photos Recorded at: Sounds of Silence De Nieuwe Regentes The Hague, Netherlands 25 February 2017 More info: https://brendanfaegre.com/projects/the-wind/

Video uploaded by Tricentenari (http://tricentenari.bcn.cat/es) __ El passat 16 de novembre les formacions de música barroca Allegoria Ensemble - Ensemble Méridien Barcelona varen interpretar peces del segle XVIII, sota el títol "El Somni del Parnàs: La música de l'Acadèmia dels Desconfiats i de l'Acadèmia Literària de Barcelona. Entre els autors interpretats hi trobem a Joan de Boixadors, Compte de Savallà, Francisco José de Castro, Francsc Valls, Santiago de Murcia o Gaspar Sanz, entre d'altres. __

performed by Elisenda Pujals Pico unvoiced by Luc Döbereiner for voice and electronics (2016) www.doebereiner.org/ A 12-member jury selected this piece from a pool of 555 submissions in the fall 2017 follow my score call for works Uploaded with permission from Luc Döbereiner and Elisenda Pujals Pico Support us on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/scorefollower Join our community on Discord : https://discord.gg/x2mdqYY

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Ideación y realización del vídeo - Addavia S.L. www.addavia.com Published on 26 Oct 2014 Das Lied der Trennung K.519, W.A. Mozart (subtitulado en español) Elisenda Pujals, soprano Isabel Fèlix, fortepiano MUSITEKTON, Barcelona