Cera y Memoria (2024)

For trombone, guitar, percussion, violoncello and electronics (loudspeakers and surface transducer loudspeakers interacting with guitar and percussion). Composed for the space of the San Telmo chapel in San Sebastian (Spain).

Performance by ENSEMBLE ASCOLTA on 28/04/2024, conducted by Asier Puga (live recording with some background noise).

-Andrew Digby, trombone
-Hubert Steiner, guitar
-Boris Müller, percussion
-Erik Borgir, violoncello

-Asier Puga, conductor

(Live recording with some background noise)

Cera Y Memoria - Abel Paul

For 3 object operators, tape & video

However great your reach, whatever you touch, shall touch flesh.
Austin Osman Spare

Untitled Valley of Fear was premiered on the 7th August 2016 at the 48th International Summer Course for New Music, Darmstadt.

Performed by Linda Jankowska, Rocio Bolanos, Emma Richards

https://vimeo.com/184253279

Untitled Valley Of Fear (2016)

Kei Yamazawa, Violoncello

Recorded live on April 13, 2017
Tiara Koto, Tokyo, Japan

Recording mastered by Yoshiaki Onishi

Written from August to October of 2015 as part of "Five Dialogues," project initiated by Anssi Karttunen, this work is dedicated to him. This work utlizes the clothespins attached to the strings, and this technique was first shown to me by Theresa Wong, composer and cellist while we were in the residency at Civitella Ranieri Foundation together. The "prepared sound" from this technique plays an important role in the development of the musical materials in this piece. Furthermore, the fact that the tuning of the instrument being identical to that of the Fifth Cello Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach is a way for me to pay tribute to the masterpiece; there is also a passage from the Sarabande of the Suite, encrypted and hidden within the piece.

Envoi I - for violoncello solo (2015)

Nombre y Vacío.
for double bass, piano, percussion (timpani, unplayed tam-tam, small objects, reel-to-reel tape player, surface transducer speakers and midi controller.
Premiered by Vertixe Sonora in December 2016.

Nombre y Vacío

for piano (Petra Ronner), thunder sheet (Martin Lorenz) and live-electronics
May 3, 2017. Villa Elisabeth, Berlin

Metallurgie (2017)

Anima Mundi for two percussionists and Live Electronics.
Performed at Etopia, Zaragoza by Neopercusion.

Anima Mundi

Claudius von Wrochem (Cello). Kairos Quartett. Festival Sonification - Audible Data Streams. Berlin, Villa Elisabeth. 28/10/2017

Auflösung (2017) for Cello and Live-Electronics

Quimera y Fantasma (2017)
for alto sax, internal loudspeaker, transducer loudspeakers and resonant windows.
Performed by Pedro Pablo Cámara Toldos
-Academy of Spain in Rome, 16-06-2018

Quimera Y Fantasma (version with resonant windows)

Sarah Nemtsov
Seven Thoughts – her kind (2018) - EXCERPT
for keyboard solo (with amplified voice – 1 player, 49 keys sample keyboard)

Gwenaelle Rouger, keyboard

full performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux354LSjkaI

"Seven Thoughts - Her Kind" - Excerpt

A collaboration sound project between composers and performers Frederik Croene (DSP and electronics) and Esther Venrooy (Piano and electronics). A very experimental and also an atmospheric album.

Truncate Retrograde

From 2009-2011 I visited China during the summer and meet with the amazing guqin player Wu Na. She inspired me to create this piece, based on our conversations, travelings in the countryside and walking in the streets of Beijing.

Quimera Y Fantasma (version with resonant windows)

Abel Paúl