for tenor saxophone and trombone 

commissioned and performed by Duo Signal 

Alejandro Oliván López - saxophone 
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

Noot Noot !! for tenor sax and trombone

Commissioned by and dedicated to Duo Signal.

Baritone saxophone: Alejandro Oliván.
Trombone: Adrián Albaladejo.

Recorded by Santiago Villar (Musician's eye)
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Programme notes:

"Vers l’essence de l’écoute" is a clear example of the aesthetic path I have been following in recent years. I have been taking away many of the complexities and musical density that was inherent to my previous work, in order to look for the essence of what constitutes my musical language.

The compositional process of "Vers l’essence de l’écoute" began with my fascination with the concept of Ma in Japanese Noh theatre. Ma could be very roughly defined as blank space, interval between actions, sounds or words; a pause that has content in it. I soon discarded the idea of Ma as an articulatory element for the piece; nevertheless, the conceptual implications of it are still underlying.   

"Vers l’essence de l’écoute" is symbolically and poetically a process of surrendering to silence, to pause, to void. The first minute and a half of the piece is illustrating this process: both players are required to play a nearly constant sound, either by the use of circular breathing or by finding strategies to make the sound seamless. Music is pushing the players to breathe as little as possible. But, in the end, breathing is going to be needed; pause is therefore inexorable.

That reluctance of accepting pause, void, but in the end needing to surrender to it, is what articulates the dramaturgy of the piece and all its symbolic content.

Vers l'essence de l'écoute (2021) | Baritone saxophone and trombone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMrDTzm6zqI

Duo Signal:
Alejandro Oliván - tenor saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

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Andreas Eduardo Frank (1987) CLEAN (2022)

Joseph Michaels (1977) Echo Chambers (2022)

Music draft for the short film "Loner" by Lena Marie Rheinländer that will be composed in collaboration with Paul Taro Schmidt

Time become ashes | electronic studio (2023)

Nuño Fernández Ezquerra (1992) - Vers l’essence de l’écoute (2021)
for baritone saxophone and trombone

Live at Concours Nicati 2023
26.08.2023

Duo Signal 
Alejandro Oliván - baritone saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

https://www.duosignal.net/

Audio recording: Christophe Egea
Audio mix and mastering: Clément Marie

Salquin Konzertsaal, Hochschule Luzern-Musik

Nuño Fernández Ezquerra - Vers l’essence de l’écoute (2021) - live, Luzern - 26.08.2023

An altar in three frames (2022)
for alto saxophone and trombone

Live at Concours Nicati 2023
26.08.2023

Duo Signal 
Alejandro Oliván - alto saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

https://www.duosignal.net/

Audio recording: Christophe Egea
Audio mix and mastering: Clément Marie

Salquin Konzertsaal, Hochschule Luzern-Musik

Jon Yu - An altar in three frames (2022) - live, Luzern - 26.08.2023

Jaehyuck Choi (1994) - Signal (2022)
for soprano saxophone and trombone (2022)

Live at Concours Nicati 2023
26.08.2023

Duo Signal 
Alejandro Oliván - soprano saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

https://www.duosignal.net/

Audio recording: Christophe Egea
Audio mix and mastering: Clément Marie

Salquin Konzertsaal, Hochschule Luzern-Musik

Jaehyuck Choi - Signal (2022) - live, Luzern - 26.08.2023

Circuits (2022) Tobias Krebs // Saxophone: Alejandro Oliván

Saxophone Quartet from Hochschule für Musik Basel:
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