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catastrophe

Map of Broken Clear Glass (stereo rough mix of the original 8-channel version). Composed at EMS Stockholm between September and October 2013.

Map of Broken Clear Glass - stereo version

spill [piano, cello, saxophone, percussion]
for Vertixe Sonora ensemble

June 25, 2014 :: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

performers: Pablo Coello (saxophone), Thomas Piel (violoncello), David Durán (piano), Diego Ventoso (percussion)

spill

Yin Yang Yin Yang, for solo piano

Laurens DeBoer, piano

Yin Yang Yin Yang (2015)- excerpt

broken 
--for two pianists and two percussionists 
--first performance: yarn|wire, New York, April 16, 2016

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« That’s how it came about, but more disturbingly, more electrically, more fantastically. I will never know how to talk about it. It seethed, it froze. Furious, impetuous, tense, immobile, explosive, before me, for me, through me. The disturbance was great. The void was immense. There was intensity, there was paroxysm, there was dislocation, there were many minuscule sabotages, there was disorganization. However, there was always a very strained organization in the background, ready to burst. In the meantime, incredibly present. In its element, a formidable demonstration of the prodigious life of the mental state that could not stop. And yet it stopped. In the most abstract way, all of a sudden, sometimes an element, rarely the most important one, hung in abseil of a memory-situation or several pictures in a row as though ricocheting, suddenly talking indecipherable non-sequiturs, striking and empty, nonsense that astounds and usurps. Displaced. Diverted. A mirror broken a thousand times, frightened, listening. Not wanting to be lost. Never quite submerged. Shot in the head. Silent fire of photons. I know now. I know. The line that perverts, that drags you along. I know. pf pf pf pf pf. Thought stoppers, particles of momentum. » – fragments adapted from Henri Michaux’s Paix dans les brisements and Vigies sur Cibles.


BROKEN

Composition created for the video installation "The weather has been nice" by Andrea Wolf.
http://www.andreawolf.me/artwork/weather-has-been-nice-2

Escala

viola scordatura and electronics, performed by Christophe Desjardins (elec. realization by Monica Gil Geraldo, r.i.m.), commissioned by CIRM/ Festival MANCA

Off Hesperus

attrito

music for amplified ensemble and electronic sounds

Text: Giuseppe Ungaretti

Performed by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
April 12th, 2018. Abrons Arts Center, New York 

Video: https://vimeo.com/268033663

Alice Teyssier (flutes and voice) 
David Fulmer (conductor)
Garreth Flowers (flügelhorn)
Josh Modney (violin and viola) 
Levy Lorenzo (percussion) 
Lizzie Burns (double bass)
Ryan Muncy (alto saxophone)

Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan (sound engineer)
Bernardo Barros (live electronics)

attrito

straight shot recording from "We Make the Weather"