Have a listen to these rarely heard
instruments in solo and chamber
settings-
(Shapiro, Schocker, Neher, Golia, Taggart, Stokes, Kohler and more)
An atmospheric album featuring solo and chamber music for low flutes.
Features the mysterious tones of the HYPERBASS FLUTE
Music by: Edwards, Albert, Bryne, Schocker, Giles, McAlley, Rosiak and Taggart
(Available from MOVE Records- 2011)
LOS ANGELES FLUTE QUARTET
A wide mixture of musical styles and
ground breaking compositions.
The 'sonic breath' of the collaborative creative
energy of one of the most revolutionary Flute Quartets.
(Eileen Holt, Colleen Carroll, Lisa-Maree Amos and Peter Sheridan)
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Fun, toe-tapping and colorful music for two flutes and piano.
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One of the great master's last film scores: Jerry Goldsmith
An honor to work which such a musician and composer
Those crazed cartoon characters, come to Warner Bros. Studios
A delightful album for the family of flutes, featuring Sonatas by Claude Arrieu and William Matthias, and tasteful transcriptions for Low Flutes.
http://www.alexshapiro.org/ASNotesfromtheKelpCD.html
2: BIOPLASM
(2004; for flute quartet: 2 bass flutes, 2 alto flutes, 2 C flutes, 1 piccolo; 11:56)
I named this piece “Bioplasm” because “Gurgling Up From the Primordial Sludge” seemed a bit long for a title. Bioplasm is the stuff of life, the germinal matter that’s essential for living beings to generate. This is a squishy piece: rather than exploit the individual voice of each flute, I wanted to create an organism from the four flutists that oozes across the sonic floor as a unified entity, sometimes slowly, sometimes at a quick pace, but always as one, like a Slinky toy. The blend of homogenous sound with four flutes can be a throbbing pulse of life; add to this four human voices, and it’s an eight part choir of plasma, looking for life to begin. Everything heard here is performed live with no overdubs. No flutists were harmed in the making of this recording.
The Los Angeles Flute Quartet:
Colleen Carroll, Eileen Holt Helwig,
Lisa-Maree Amos, Peter Sheridan
Produced by Alex Shapiro & John Steinmetz.
Recorded March, 2004 at Citrus Studios, Glendora CA.
Recorded, edited and mixed by Mike Aarvold.
Assistant recording engineer: Mike Sherlock.
Appears on the 2005 CD, “Above and Beyond,” LAFQ 0605.
Special thanks to The California Association of Professional Music Teachers which commissioned Bioplasm, and to The Los Angeles Flute Quartet for their enthusiastic support, generosity, and sense of adventure.