Music

My musical path brought me through a wide range of music instruments, styles and ensembles with different people in different places, enjoy the listening:

Vibraphone

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AntiforZ

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Marimba

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Improvisation

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Percussion

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"Latest releases"

Sunday January 26th 2020

I had the pleasure to sub Marko for another concert with Quartzite at Jazzx Pletterij in Haarlem. They made a live stream with a really nice quality, big up to them.

Music Through the Walls – #MTTW
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https://www.patreon.com/mttw

Posing “with instrument” : – hey can I have this lid there, just a minute… – sure!”

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw1rx_eeF7JJ4PRZm59sbQA/

GT Thomas – I’m a highlighter pen

For a few years now I’ve had the joy to collaborate with Gwen and of course said yes when she asked if I could record a vibraphone part for her project: composing and producing one song every 3-4 days, for one month. In the mean time we’ve recorded more parts and it became a whole of a great dream-pop album.
You can listen to it on many of your usual platforms
Plenty of cool G.T. Thomas​ artwork on her website, where you can even purchase the album, with a real highlighter pen inside!

Music video with her magic avatar!

More about all these highlighter pen stuff on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3uItYNBqjn
➡️ gtthomas.com ⬅️

Full album on Youtube

Virtual Ensemble

Here we go with three collaborations with the Virtual Ensemble:


Farewell LullabyKaori Neus is dedicated to a beloved man who recently passed away. When I was filled with gloom, he embraced and welcomed me, and he introduced me to many beautiful people. Thank you for your love and your wisdom.
Happy Birthday T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen Rinponche ♥️
Music brings people together and communicates directly to the heart. Many thanks to the friends who made this video possible:
Julien Moussiegt – Vibraphone
Maria Martpay – Vibraphone
Marko Jugovic – Vibraphone
Antoon Verwer – Voice of sounds
Kaori Neus invited me to write a miniature for the Virtual Ensemble. The idea of the project is to use music to bring people together and the other way around during these bizarre times. It was a nice excuse to re-connect with old friends and colleagues and to meet new ones too. Big thanks for their music to: Burcu Ramazanoğlu Ola KwiatkowskaMayuko TakedaMarta GonzálezMarta Fitzsimmons Carnero , Chema Martinez Martinez @Lola Navas, William Hayter and Julien Moussiegt


Parnashawari by Kaori Neus
This piece is dedicated to the people who is infected by the COVID-19. #staystrong Under any situation, music will still there, connecting people and providing us our emotional needs. Music brings people together. Many thanks to the lovely people who made this video possible: Alexandre May – dancer Julien Moussiegt – Vibraphone Maria Martpay – Vibraphone Beatrice Milanese – Voice

Vibraphone

 
Concert MOTOR ON +Back to presence

@ Martha’s Souterrain P3

Astor Piazzolla

4/5 pièces pour guitare,

arrangement: JM

@FullMoon Babylon – 6th anniversary / 8th October 2014

Campero (in F), Romántico, Tristón, Compadre

Dès l’adolescence j’ai été charmé par le tango et les musiques d’Argentine en général. J’ai commencé à travailler sur ces pièces solo dès mes débuts à Barcelone, après avoir eu une très bonne expérience en quintette de tango à l’Académie de Musique de Monaco, particulièrement enrichissante de par les rencontres régulières avec Gustavo Beytelmann. En plus de l’arrangement, il a fallut trouver des façons d’adapter ma technique pour faire sonner ces pièces originales pour guitare au vibraphone, avec toutes les difficultés que cela représente en termes de résonance, articulation, tempo et nuances.

I got into Tango and Argentine music since my teenage years. After an experience playing it with quintet at Monaco Music Academy, where we received guidance from Gustavo Beytelmann, I moved to Barcelona where I started practising these pieces. Besides doing the arrangement, I had to adapt my technique in order to make these original guitar pieces sound on vibraphone, finding good compromises regarding resonance, articulation, tempo and dynamics.

Concert – Les couleurs du vibraphone

Temple de Toulon – 13/08/2014

Julien Dassié

…ecco.

Recorded January 2012 at esmuc, Barcelona

one shots – diverse videos

Improvisation

With William Hayter – nu duo:

De Rotterdam à Toulon
Temple Protestant de Toulon,  17 April 2015

A playlist from our first full concert:

  • 1-2-3-Free-3-2-1: Dérivé d’un exercice d’improvisation qui consiste à ne jouer avec qu’une seule note, afin de s’entraîner à développer les contrastes rythmiques, dynamiques, couleurs et timbres. Dans cette version de concert, nous commençons avec une seule note, puis deux, puis trois, une partie libre, et “retour à la case départ”.
  • Only Five Notes: Improvisation on the pentatonic mode .
  • Scenes from a Hat: Pour cette pièce en trois parties, le public écrit sur des papiers de quatre couleurs différentes dont chacune correspond à un verbe, nom, adjectif ou complément. On tire au sort un papier de chaque couleur pour obtenir un phrase qui nous sert d’inspiration pour improviser. Au concert de Toulon nous avons ainsi obtenu: Le triste anniversaire englouti autrefois; L’arrosoir moche sursaute sous l’eau; La chimère étoilée attend au fond du gouffre.
  • Train Station Music: Une suite de miniatures improvisées de moins d’une minute, avec quelques secondes de pause, sans se consulter sur le matériel musical. Chacun des musiciens utilise un matériel très simple et limité, le duo converge ou pas, c’est la surprise! Elle évoque le fait que dans une gare, les gens partagent un espace tout en ayant des raisons très diverses d’y être, et réalisent différentes activités, avec différents niveaux d’énergie: attendre le train, attendre quelqu’un, courir ou lire…

Nanouk l’esquimau – Robert J. FLAHERTY

FIMÉ – Ollioules – 11/11/15

 


Lunch Concert at Codarts, 11 November 2014

  • Free improvisation, made in here and now!
  • Miniatures: A piece in five very short sections. Each of us uses a very simple material for every miniature, without consulting each other and eventually converge, or not!
  • The One and Only was originally a simple improvisation exercise, using only one note, in order to train or develop colours and dynamic range as well as contrasts in an improvisation group. This principle extended to only a few notes creates a very intimate and fusioned atmosphere in concert. Very NU like in French (naked).

 


Earlier, in 2013 With Willem Tanke on Piano
In 2013 at Codarts, Rotterdam

Check out the links to his blog, full of interesting improvisation contents!

 

Marimba

Reflections on the Nature of Water
Jacob Druckman

Recorded in January 2012 at Esmuc, Barcelona, 3/6 parts.

  • II – Fleet
  • IV – Gently Swelling
  • V – Profound


Yoshihisa (in memoriam)
Bruno Giner

Recorded in May 2014 at Codarts, Rotterdam.
I practised this piece as a part of my Master Research on contemporary music performance practice and visited the composer to exchange with him on the interpretation and study  of the piece.

AntiforZ

2 EP d’AntiforZ sur Youtube:

Et les deux mêmes sur Spotify:

Et en live:

 

After a fair amount of changes in lineup, rehearsing and playing in attics and basements AntiforZ finally released a first official EP. Music can be good, bad, beautiful or ugly but it should never, never be boring! From the center of the galaxy we bring you music to dance to with any amount of left feet, choirs to gurgle and ample opportunity for your friends to make fun of you while you turn it up to max waiting for the traffic lights …

ANTIFORZ.COM

 

Percussion

Nicolas Martynciow
Impressions, first part

 

For snare drum, recorded in January 2012

Electronic

Samba de Cerveja (JM)

My first electronic piece. Made at Monaco Music Academy with Digital Performer in 2009. Transformed pandeiro and beer bottle sounds.

Ensembles

Various ensemble projects

Early Music

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