May 2024 Newsletter

7 May 2024

I came across your recent panel discussion on improvisation in the classical music field. If you're interested in exploring that rather esoteric area I am probably one of the foremost practitioners of creating in real time. My catalogue has over 70 albums and about 15 of them are created in real time. About eight of them are collaborative composition which is even more unusual. All the compositions were created by myself and various collaborators in real time and in concert or filmed. I believe this is very rare these days. An overview of my 'instant composition' work can be found here.

Some excerpts from the recent Berlin January 20 concert are here.

For The Hostages & Victims of October 7

Andrea picks three notes

Dance Fantastich

Two other creations, both rather unusual, that were filmed as they were happening, and appear on the same album, Musical Portraits: An International Collection are:

Early Reflections of Ping: A Musical Portrait

The Sound of Fragrance

If the links below are of interest I can send you more, or you can check out my catalogue on any streaming service and the many real time creations of my YouTube channel.

William Goldstein

2 May 2024

Under every leaf of a plant are little tiny holes called stomata which close up at night and open in the daylight to let the air circulate in and out of the plant - that's how the plants breathe. They have discovered the chirping sound that birds make at four in the morning opens the stomata. One guy got curious about this, found out that the chirping of the birds can be mimicked with classical music, started playing classical music to his corn field and his corn grew fifteen feet tall.

Carlos i Lizarraga

19 April 2024

Thanks again for having me on, it was definitely an interesting discussion (even if I was majority listening for 98% of it).

James Lewitzke

18 April 2024

James Lewitzke: Will this be streamed or recapped anywhere in particular?

Keith Bramich: Yes ... the conversation will be recorded and the edited recording will be available on our site from 1 May 2024. Anyone who joins the conversation will get to see a proof of the recording before it goes out, so it's a fairly safe environment ... if you say anything that you regret, it can be chopped out!

James Lewitzke: Ah just looked on the page and seems like it will be happening on Zoom in particular. (Was just curious if it may had been streaming on X or Youtube as well I suppose.)

Keith Bramich: Yep. We just do it on Zoom, record it and then mix/edit into a one hour programme with extra bits of audio and video, often provided by those who turn up. Come and join us ... I'm sure you'd have lots of interesting things to say about how your creative process works!

James Lewitzke: Thanks for the invite! (If my work schedule isn't too heavy tomorrow I'll see about checking it out.)

Keith Bramich: Ok. Hope you can make it.

Read further recent classical music news items here.

The background image on this page has been derived from an AI-generated image of animals improvising on various different musical instruments.