»Zerbrochenes Lied hallt nach« (2022)
mit dem zitierten Duettino ,,pur ti miro'' aus Monteverdis L'incoronazione die Poppea

Hamburger Ratsmusik
Christoph Heidemann, Barockvioline
Ulrich Wedemeier, Theorbe
Simone Eckert, Diskantgambe
Birte Schultz, Altgambe
Hermann Hickethier, Bassgambe I
Heike Johanna Lindner, Bassgambe II

Uraufführung am 31.01.2023, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Auftragskomposition von Hamburgische Vereinigung von Freunden der Kammermusik

Aufnahme von Generalprobe, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Zerbrochenes Lied hallt nach (2022) für Barockvioline, Viola da Gamba Consort und Theorbe

Boku no Idaho (ボクのアイダホ) (2023) by Ken Ueno
for solo shakuhachi (any size)
Recorded by Reison Kuroda

In May 2022, I began working on a documentary about Paul Chihara, the only senior role model I have as a Japanese American composer. During that same month, my crew and I took Paul to revisit Minidoka, where he was incarcerated as a child during World War II. While there, my crew and I shot B-roll footage of the landscape, the remains of the internment camp, the dormitory area, and the mess hall. For these scenes, I felt it was most appropriate to use traditional Japanese instruments.
Earlier, I had made a short film featuring the dormitory area and the mess hall, for which I composed a piece for solo shō (mouth organ). There was one particular scene I knew I wanted to highlight: footage of the railroad tracks near Minidoka. These tracks are where Paul, as a young child, was brought to the camp by train. The image of these tracks has been ingrained in his psyche, haunting him with recurring nightmares throughout his life. I originally wrote a piece for solo shakuhachi to underscore this scene. However, after completing the composition and meeting the young virtuoso Reison Kuroda, who has since recorded this piece, I have greater hopes for the piece as a stand-alone concert work.
The title uses the pronoun "boku," the Japanese first-person singular diminutive possessive, implying "my Idaho" from the perspective of a young boy. The title also nods to the Keanu Reeves movie My Own Private Idaho, where beautiful footage of America's expansive landscape is ironically contrasted with the reality of it being a site of trauma.

Boku no Idaho (ボクのアイダホ)

Piece for Gamelan - Semar Pegulingan

Performed by Narwastu - February 2014 - Sanur, Bali




* This piece is also featured in the opera "Ou...Patsia...Ra"

UPACARA

for 5 female voices, 5 clarinets, 5 trombones, 5 cellos, Percussion, Piano and Harpsichord

"The deeper you go...the deeper you go...the deeper you go...deeper you go...you go...you?"

Choreographer: Elisabetta Consonni
Music: Aftab Darvishi
Light designer: Violeta Arista
Performers: Annamaraja Corner, Alessandra Bordino, Sara Leghissa
Premier: 9th of November 2016, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Italy

Plutone

1st movement from Ballet "O Ippis...Tou Ippi...E Ippi...Poios Ippei?"

Performed by Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, November 2014 - Nicosia, Cyrpus.
Conducto: Giorgos Kountouris

Awarded the 1st prize at the Composition competition held for the European presidency of Cyprus - 2012.

"Ο Ιππής...του Ιππεί...Ε Ιππή...Ποιός Ιππεί;" - I

2nd movement from Ballet "O Ippis...Tou Ippi...E Ippi...Poios Ippei?"

Performed by Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, November 2014 - Nicosia, Cyrpus.
Conducto: Giorgos Kountouris

1st prize at competition held for the European presidency of Cyprus.
2012

"Ο Ιππής...Του Ιππή...Ε Ιππή...Ποιός Ιππεί;" -  ΙΙ

Sonata for Baritone Saxophone and Piano 3rd Movement

Fragment from opera "Ra...Patsia...Ou" - 2016

Performed by: PATSIAOURA ensemble

"Ra...Patsia...Ou" is the second part of the opera "PATSIAOURA", which presents the absurd love between a sculptress and her sculpture, commenting on values ​​and associations between love, death and matter. The work narrates the process of the sculpture coming to life but slowly falling apart; leading its creator, who is unable to prevent this deconstructive process, to paranoia and madness.

"Ra...Patsia...Ou" - percussion overture

Of Ancient Days is a creation story, a slow building of a world in seven day-movements, interleaved with Bach's partita, Sei gegrüßet, forming the 'nights'. 

The new Utopa organ of the Orgelpark was used in two different ways for this concert: as an authentic Hildebrandt instrument (for the Bach) and, for my piece, with the digital console and technology developed by the Sinua firm of Dusseldorf. 

Live recording, November 23rd, 2018, Orgelpark 

Johan Luijmes, (Bach) Trevor Grahl, organists. 

Prelude: In the Beginning (Unda Maris)
(Bach) Chorale, Variation I
The First Day: Filament
(Bach)Variations II, III, IV
The Second Day: Echo Sphere
(Bach) Variations V, VI, VII
The Third Day: The Prolific Tale of Callithamnion Roseum (a Primordial Alga)
(Bach) Variation VIII, IX
The Fourth Day: Tourbillon des Etoiles
(Bach) Variation X
The Fifth Day: Au Fond des Bois...
(Bach)Variation XI
The Sixth Day: Ecce Homo

Of Ancient Days (2019) - Live Recording (Premiere)

Live dub sonics by Jay Glass Dubs for XLR8R & SHAPE.

Jay Glass Dubs is a 2020 artist of the SHAPE platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union. This online premiere is presented by XLR8R in collaboration with Riam Festival.

XLR8R is also featuring a package of exclusive music and content from a selection of SHAPE artists for the latest edition of XLR8R+, including tracks and a sample pack from Jay Glass Dubs, Poly Chain, and Rian Treanor. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/XLR8Rplus_SHAPE

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XLR8R & SHAPE: Jay Glass Dubs Live, Presented by Riam Festival

Composer....emmmm???...emmm!..emm?!*em...m

"The deeper you go...the deeper you go...the deeper you go...deeper you go...you go...you?"

Andys Skordis