Angelo Valenti Bayraktar
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Angelo Valenti Bayraktar
@iratzejauzens.bsky.social
Provençal composer of electronic & contemporary classical music. Melismas, modality, microtonality, drones & ornamentation. Creator of imaginaries.

website: https://angelovalentibayraktar.carrd.co/
Hildegard
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December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here’s the link where you can listen & order the album on Bandcamp 🗝️

angelovalentibayraktar.bandcamp.com/album/hildeg...
Hildegard, by Angelo Valenti Bayraktar
11 track album
angelovalentibayraktar.bandcamp.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📖 The booklet closes here.

It will be provided with the digital album, available on Bandcamp on December 19. Azad’s @byrktr-azad.bsky.social animated clips can be seen on YouTube, while the music can be experienced on the streaming platform of your choice.

🔗 All links are in bio.
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🔹 The Clock and Clouds, the alternation between pulsating moments and freer passages in Vanishing Ring.

🔹 Asymmetrical time signatures, such as the 5/8 in Epistula ad Cosmos or the 11/8 in Eleven Slashing Damage.
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🔹 The subharmonic series in Sixty-Four Subharmonics.

🔹 The rhythmic and melodic ostinatos, hypnotic and repetitive patterns, in Seven Fire Damage, Toxic Skyline, and Ground Ivy.
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🔹 The Dorian mode in Crimson Feathers or the Double Harmonic scale in Awakening Consciousness.

🔹 The just intonation, an alternative tuning, in the piece Data Sequence, which revisits the Dies Irae sequence.
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
⚒️ Musical Techniques ⚒️

For this album, I employed a range of compositional techniques, including:

🔹 The drone, a sustained note that reproduces the circular breathing of the duduk in Three of a Kind.
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras for his taste for melody; Wyschnegradsky's microtonality; Ligeti's micropolyphony; the polymodality and complex rhythms dear to Messiaen; the play of parallelism and symmetry that runs through Rautavaara's work; the reverb of Men I Trust...
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Neil Young's chords; the harmonic series in Grisey's spectral music; Jeff Mills' drum machine sequences; the drones and ornamentation of traditional Armenian music; Ravel's haunting ostinatos and pedal points; Lili Boulanger's modality; the melismas of Gregorian chant;
December 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
All these artifacts will be animated in the YouTube videos for the album “Hildegard”, coming December 19. Stay tuned!
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Extrait : « … Ça rappelle beaucoup les sons du label Warp Records … Il y a un petit côté Boards of Canada sur certains tracks … »
December 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
She is known for having written works on medicine and botany, philosophy and theology, for having created a language, the “lingua ignota”, and for her production of sacred music. 8/
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🔮 Hildegard von Bingen 🔮

The name of this album, Hildegard, refers to and pays tribute to an iconic mystical figure of the Middle Ages: Abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), who was canonized in 2012. 7/
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Timbre and harmony play a central role in creating atmospheres, as do the compositional techniques associated with Mixed music, in which computer-synthesized sounds interact with traditional instruments. 6/
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The 3D graphics and animations of these objects were created by Azad Bayraktar @byrktr-azad.bsky.social, with whom I had the good fortune to work.

This work is not program music. It does not follow a linear narrative. It consists of a series of distinct musical moments. 5/
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM