Daniel Corral

composer

Category: Chamber Music

  • Rotations Ensemble in LA and San Diego

    Rotations Ensemble in LA and San Diego

    Rotations Ensemble will play 2 shows next week! Come enjoy minimalism-inspired just-intonation rhythms.

    Rotations Ensemble is:

    • Daniel Corral, Just Intonation electric guitar
    • Myra Hinrichs, Violin
    • Andrew Lessman, Drumset
    • Cassia Streb, Viola
    • David Tranchina, Bass

    Rotations Ensemble @ Solarc Brewing

    Sunday, April 13
    3505 Eagle Rock Blvd, LA, CA
    7pm (music at 8pm sharp)

    If you’re in Los Angeles, come have a drink and a listen! Music starts at 8pm sharp.

    Rotations Ensemble @ UCSD Experimental Theater

    Tuesday, April 15
    9410 Russell Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093
     7pm

    If you’re in San Diego, we’ll play the same music as at Solarc, but will also screen Candoro, a video piece I created for Music for Your Inbox in 2023.

  • 4 for 20 premiere at Automata, December 17, 2022

    On December 17 at Automata, I’ll be joined by Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, and Andrew Lessman in premiering my piece 4 for 20!

    Buy Tickets

    8pm – Door
    8:30pm – Performance

    Automata LA
    504 Chung King Rd
    Los Angeles, CA 90012

    $15 / $18

    4 for 20 began as a sketch for a concept I’m developing for my upcoming COLA IMAP performance in June, 2023. The piece creates a contemplative space through a series of gradually changing chords on 20 just-intonation chimes. These chords manifest through shifting polyrhythms connected to the frequency of each chime.

    This piece continues my 8 years of making just-tuned chimes, as well as my gradual descent into the wooly world of Erv Wilson microtonality. The chimes are tuned to a 1•3•5•7•9•11 Eikosany, and each musician plays 5 of them.

  • Concerto for Having Fun with Elvis on Stage @ Social Convention, Feb. 26, 2021

    With a pre-performance with Alexander Gedeon, Allen Cordell, and myself.

  • Summits premiere at Soundwaves, March 20, 2019!

    I hope you can join me for the world premiere of Summits on March 20!

    Summits is a new song cycle using texts I have collected over the last decade while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains. Each song is based on entries I have documented in various summit registers (notebooks often found at the top of mountain trails). These personal chronicles from regional pinnacles portray the wisdom, humility, and humor that can only be found on a mountain peak.

    Summits is written for voice, string quartet, and guitar/accordion, and I am happy to be joined by singer Joanna Wallfisch and the Koan Quartet in bringing it to life.

    We will premiere Summits at the Soundwaves Concert Series on March 20 in celebration of their 50th event!

    7:30pm
    Wednesday, March 20, 2019

    Soundwaves Concert Series
    FREE

    Martin Luther King Auditorium
    Santa Monica Public Library
    601 Santa Monica Blvd.
    Santa Monica, CA 90401

  • New Documentation Online

    Happy 2019!

    I have new performances videos online. Here is a live performance of Polytope from last October, a performance of Refractions from May, 2017, and a performance of Diamond Pulses from September, 2015.

  • Polytope coming in March

    Excerpt from Polytope:

    I’m very excited to announce the premiere of Polytope this coming March! Polytope is a multimedia microtonal performance for MIDI quartet.
    To perform Polytope, I’ll be joined by Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, and Andrew Lessoman.
    Performed entirely in darkness, it’s a mesmerizing dance of silhouettes of fingers over colorful glowing MIDI buttons, captured on live feed video and projected large and bright as a moving, visual score. Polytope is rhythmically charged in the vein of musical minimalists such as Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, or Arnold Dreyblatt, but harmonically inspired by the microtonal explorations of James Tenney, Erv Wilson, or Harry Partch. The multimedia style of presentation is somewhere between a string quartet, Kraftwerk, James Turrell, and an Indonesian dhalang (master shadow puppeteer).
    Three performances of Polytope are scheduled in March:

    • Automata, Los Angeles, March 18
    • Wayward Music Series, Good Shepherd Chapel in Seattle, March 23
    • Center for New Music in San Francisco, March 25.

    MORE INFO SOON!
     
     

  • Trios for Two Kickstarter

    Danny Holt and Molly Gebrian have recorded my Ultramarine, and it will be included in their upcoming Trios for Two album on Innova Recordings! Check out their Kickstarter campaign and consider supporting the album.

  • New album Diamond Pulses!

    I am excited to announce my new album, Diamond Pulses! Diamond Pulses will be released by Orenda Records on September 12. There will be a release show that day at Automata.
    Stream the audio from Bandcamp, then pre-order your copy from Orenda Records!
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    More info soon!

    Diamond Pulses, cover art by Eron Rausch
    Diamond Pulses, cover art by Eron Rausch

  • June info soon

    I’ll have a few chamber music performances in June to announce soon!
    In the meantime, here’s an electronic piece I made recently. It fades in slowly, so have a bit of patience at the beginning.
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  • New concert recordings online

    I’ve finally had a chance to upload two concert recordings of premieres from 2014!
    PROGRESS (2014)
    Violin and Viola. Premiered November 21, 2014 at MorYork by Story Water
    “Progress” by Daniel Corral

    PRAYER FOR THE WORLD – 10:00 (2013)
    SATB choir and organ. Premiered June 1, 2014 by the All Saints Coventry and Canterbury choirs
    “Prayer for the World” by Daniel Corral

    Also, check out this electroacoustic piece for music box movement and electronics: