[Voxnovus] Composer's Voice Featuring Tokyo to New York airing today on Manhattan Neighborhood Network

[New Voice in New Music]

Today airing on Manhattan Neighborhood Network - MNN Composer's Voice 
features "Tokyo to New York" with Thomas Piercy, Adam Robinson 
Shakuhachi, and A. Lish Lindsey, Flutist presenting composers 
Jean-Patrick Besingrand - composer and Marty Regan.
https://www.youtube.com/live/x2ABeKDW1_g?si=YmMronunZJLDrHR9

Composer's Voice Featuring Tokyo to New York

This episode of Composer's Voice features the project Tokyo to New York 
which has been produced and presented by the clarinetist and hichiriki 
player Thomas Piercy.Works performed are “La cage somber des lucioles” 
by Jean-Patrick Besingrand and “Silent Cry of the Heron” by Marty Regan 
performed Adam Robinson and Thomas Piercy with “Endless Mountains” by 
Alicia “Lish” Lindsey.

https://www.youtube.com/live/x2ABeKDW1_g?si=YmMronunZJLDrHR9
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Composer's Voice airs its half-hour show every 2 weeks on Saturday at 
2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4) on NYC cable access TV with Manhattan Neighborhood's 
Network channel 2.

View on the following TV cable channels in Manhattan:
Channel 83 on RCN
Channel 67 on Spectrum
Channel 34 on Verizon FIOS

Watch and listen online at the following:
https://www.mnn.org/watch/channels/lifestyle-channel

Thomas Piercy, clarinet and Adam Robinson, shakuhachi.

Jean-Patrick Besingrand
"La cage sombre des lucioles" for clarinet and shakuhachi (2020)
Composed for Thomas Piercy

 From the composer: "La cage sombre des lucioles" is taken from the 
French translation of Takako Hashimoto's haïku. The clarinet and 
shakuhachi represent the contradiction between the darkness of a closed 
space and the freedom and light of the "lucioles" (fireflies). They 
emancipate themselves from being enclosed in a register and fixed set of 
pitches through reserved microtonality and bursts of light. The piece is 
warmly dedicated to Thomas Piercy and Hideyuki 
Tsuchiya."https://jeanpatrickbesingrand.com/


Marty Regan
"Silent Cry of a Heron" for shakuhachi and clarinet (2016)

 From the composer: "Silent Cry of a Heron" is part of a continuing 
effort to devise a notational system with the aim of imbuing my music 
with a distinctively Japanese aesthetic. The score is designed with an 
element of rhythmic indeterminacy and uses proportional notation to 
facilitate a flow of musical time based not on a fixed pulse or meter, 
but rather on the natural patterns of the human breath. In this piece, I 
attempted to seamlessly blend the two instruments in a way that 
emphasizes their similarities and potential correspondences by means of 
imitative gestures and seamless fusion of their respective timbres, 
resulting in a soundscape where imagined boundaries between the "East" 
and "West" become blurred and transcended. In Japanese culture, among 
other traits, the heron represents gracefulness, patience, longevity, 
tranquility, and partnership. In this work, I seek to evoke these 
qualities in a musical soundscape of understated and timeless 
expression.
https://martyregan.com/en

Available on the "Lost Mountains, Quiet Valleys" CD in a recording by 
shakuhachi player Shozan Tanabe and clarinetist Thomas Piercy.
https://martyregan.com/en/cds#lost-mountains-quiet-valleys