AIR IN MOTION
FLUTE ALBUM
Flute works performed and composed by Keyna Wilkins influenced by flamenco, jazz and impressionism
Available on Bandcamp, Itunes and Spotify.
Front cover artwork by Michael Arvithis.
Recorded and mixed at A Sharp Studios by Richard Lake 2017.
1. Buleria Fiero: Composed by Keyna Wilkins with an improvised section, sheet music published by Wirripang in 2012, based on Buleria flamenco dance rhythms. Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAQO-4E0a6k
2. Full Moon: Composed by Keyna Wilkins, sheet music published by Wirripang in 2012 for solo clarinet and trumpet. Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URB2SwWLHJI. A main source of inspiration for this piece was watching footage from NASA's Grail Mission to map the moon in 2012. The moon seems serene, ghostly, unhuman, impartial.
3. Air in Motion: Spontaneous layered improvisation at A Sharp Studio.Perfomed live @ Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gVku4DgYw
4. Floating in Space: Composed by Keyna Wilkins with nebulae space sounds derived from spectrograph data from various nebulae in our galaxy compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/), sheet music published by Wirripang in 2012. Filmed live 12/12/15 @ Seymour Centre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLLZypTFwUs. This piece is influenced by the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism, specifically the blowing technique of the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute shakuhachi, as a means to meditate on nothingness, or void. Musicologist Jay Keister states: “The Fuke sect of Buddhists practiced a form of shakuhachi meditation known as suizen, or blowing Zen”. Suizen is the concept of self-realisation through meditation on nothingness during improvisation. Features shakuhachi Zen improvisation include lack of steady pulse, fragmented melodies, pitch bends and use of a pitch collection roughly similar to the Western minor pentatonic scale. It also widely uses sustained notes due to the importance of controlled deep breathing. Similarly Floating in Space has all these features with the addition of the backdrop of space sounds. When listening to the raw sound of Nebulae mp3, two main pitches can clearly be heard: Middle C, C above Middle C and F above Middle C, which is has some of the main pitches from the harmonic series starting on F as the fundamental. These 2 pitches provide the tonal centres of the piece.
5. Ephemeral Time: Composed by Keyna Wilkins (including words) in 2008. A meditation on being in the moment. Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouh6nXiav0w
6. Onyx: Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2001 with improvised sections. Onyx is a semi-precious stone with many layers of colours. Perfomed live @ Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGMfFpNUbU
7. Bulerias: Composed by Keyna Wilkins, part of Flamenco Etudes for solo Flute, sheet music published by Wirripang in 2017.
8. Blackhole: Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2017. Performed live 11/11/18 at Flute Tree Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXg0_Qqvem8&t=139s. Using sound clips from sound library on freesound.org licensed under Creative Commons: thanvannispen, sound: industrial_crash02.aif, ok1has, sound: telephone battery charger.mp3, qubodup, sound: Plane Crash.flac, FreqMan, sound: psycho scream 1.wav, tcrocker68, sound: Girl_Scream.wav and Girl_Scream_Short.wav, queen_westeros, sound: WOMAN SCREAM, tec studios, sound: a black hole st.mp3, Greego, sound: Ghost Opera, hykenfreak, sound: Deep Space Ship Effect, kwahmah_02, sound: opera on shortwave.wav, kb7clx, sound: Russian ham or pirate with music & cw qrm 7050.0kHz LSB.wav, Russian ham or pirate out of tune with music with others talking 7050.0kHz LSB.wav, makosan, sound: Crowded Opera Lobby.wav, GowlerMusic, sound: Radio Static, juicet, sound: dub_techno synt.wav, zagi2, sound: pop rock loop 2.wav and rock shelter.wav, pechenyshki , sound: Children playing outdoors, RutgerMuller, sound: Wind Low Short.aif, Equality_X12, sound: Wind SoundEffect, kangaroovindaloo, sound: Medium Wind. The inspiration for this piece was theories around what would happen when entering a black hole. Obviously most likely death, but this is my music interpretation of the words of Astronomer Kip Thorne (2014, p46) “Black holes are made from warped space and warped time...Black holes can spin, just as Earth spins. A spinning black hole drags space around it into a vortex-type whirling motion”.
9. Comet Song: Improvisation to various comet sounds derived from spectrograph data from various comets in our solar system compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/). Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJV1abkJPM&index=6&list=PLpTylrzldroKQcUNY2aJDZ0X03QqVG7un
10. Haze: Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2013.
11. Solar Flare: Improvisation to sun sounds compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/).
FLUTE ALBUM
Flute works performed and composed by Keyna Wilkins influenced by flamenco, jazz and impressionism
Available on Bandcamp, Itunes and Spotify.
Front cover artwork by Michael Arvithis.
Recorded and mixed at A Sharp Studios by Richard Lake 2017.
1. Buleria Fiero: Composed by Keyna Wilkins with an improvised section, sheet music published by Wirripang in 2012, based on Buleria flamenco dance rhythms. Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAQO-4E0a6k
2. Full Moon: Composed by Keyna Wilkins, sheet music published by Wirripang in 2012 for solo clarinet and trumpet. Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URB2SwWLHJI. A main source of inspiration for this piece was watching footage from NASA's Grail Mission to map the moon in 2012. The moon seems serene, ghostly, unhuman, impartial.
3. Air in Motion: Spontaneous layered improvisation at A Sharp Studio.Perfomed live @ Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gVku4DgYw
4. Floating in Space: Composed by Keyna Wilkins with nebulae space sounds derived from spectrograph data from various nebulae in our galaxy compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/), sheet music published by Wirripang in 2012. Filmed live 12/12/15 @ Seymour Centre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLLZypTFwUs. This piece is influenced by the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism, specifically the blowing technique of the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute shakuhachi, as a means to meditate on nothingness, or void. Musicologist Jay Keister states: “The Fuke sect of Buddhists practiced a form of shakuhachi meditation known as suizen, or blowing Zen”. Suizen is the concept of self-realisation through meditation on nothingness during improvisation. Features shakuhachi Zen improvisation include lack of steady pulse, fragmented melodies, pitch bends and use of a pitch collection roughly similar to the Western minor pentatonic scale. It also widely uses sustained notes due to the importance of controlled deep breathing. Similarly Floating in Space has all these features with the addition of the backdrop of space sounds. When listening to the raw sound of Nebulae mp3, two main pitches can clearly be heard: Middle C, C above Middle C and F above Middle C, which is has some of the main pitches from the harmonic series starting on F as the fundamental. These 2 pitches provide the tonal centres of the piece.
5. Ephemeral Time: Composed by Keyna Wilkins (including words) in 2008. A meditation on being in the moment. Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouh6nXiav0w
6. Onyx: Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2001 with improvised sections. Onyx is a semi-precious stone with many layers of colours. Perfomed live @ Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGMfFpNUbU
7. Bulerias: Composed by Keyna Wilkins, part of Flamenco Etudes for solo Flute, sheet music published by Wirripang in 2017.
8. Blackhole: Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2017. Performed live 11/11/18 at Flute Tree Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXg0_Qqvem8&t=139s. Using sound clips from sound library on freesound.org licensed under Creative Commons: thanvannispen, sound: industrial_crash02.aif, ok1has, sound: telephone battery charger.mp3, qubodup, sound: Plane Crash.flac, FreqMan, sound: psycho scream 1.wav, tcrocker68, sound: Girl_Scream.wav and Girl_Scream_Short.wav, queen_westeros, sound: WOMAN SCREAM, tec studios, sound: a black hole st.mp3, Greego, sound: Ghost Opera, hykenfreak, sound: Deep Space Ship Effect, kwahmah_02, sound: opera on shortwave.wav, kb7clx, sound: Russian ham or pirate with music & cw qrm 7050.0kHz LSB.wav, Russian ham or pirate out of tune with music with others talking 7050.0kHz LSB.wav, makosan, sound: Crowded Opera Lobby.wav, GowlerMusic, sound: Radio Static, juicet, sound: dub_techno synt.wav, zagi2, sound: pop rock loop 2.wav and rock shelter.wav, pechenyshki , sound: Children playing outdoors, RutgerMuller, sound: Wind Low Short.aif, Equality_X12, sound: Wind SoundEffect, kangaroovindaloo, sound: Medium Wind. The inspiration for this piece was theories around what would happen when entering a black hole. Obviously most likely death, but this is my music interpretation of the words of Astronomer Kip Thorne (2014, p46) “Black holes are made from warped space and warped time...Black holes can spin, just as Earth spins. A spinning black hole drags space around it into a vortex-type whirling motion”.
9. Comet Song: Improvisation to various comet sounds derived from spectrograph data from various comets in our solar system compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/). Performed live at Flute Tree Studio 11/11/18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJV1abkJPM&index=6&list=PLpTylrzldroKQcUNY2aJDZ0X03QqVG7un
10. Haze: Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2013.
11. Solar Flare: Improvisation to sun sounds compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/).