Yu Kuwabara Works

for three glassbottle players and tape
players: Hanna Eimermacher, Genoel von Lilienstern, Ali Gorji
Heidelberger Biennale für Neue Musik 

Transparenz 2002/03 for three glassbottle players and tape

„Mutterleib“ for Cello and Piano,  Ah-Hyun Park - Cem Esen

“warten, erwarten” for solo alto saxophone, Martin Stier

Performed by Ensemble Synaesthesis, recorded at International Contemporary Music Festival AFEKT, 31.10.2022
https://www.synaesthesis.lt/

"[…] the world for an immersed being — the world in immersion — does not, properly speaking, contain real objects. Everything in it is fluid, everything in it is in motion, with, against, or in the subject. It is defined as an element or flux that approaches, distances itself from, or accompanies the living being, which is itself flux or part of a flux. It is, properly speaking, a universe without things, an enormous field of events of varying intensity. 
[…]
Permeability is the keyword: in this world, everything is in everything. The water of which the sea is made is not only in front of the fish subject but in it, passing through him, coming out of him. 
[…]
Tiktaalik roseae is just one of the forms we have developed in order to transform the universe into a sea in which we immerse ourselves."

Excerpts from Emanuele Coccia's "The Life of Plants" (La vie des plantes)pp. 32 - 34

Tiktaalik roseae (2022) for sextet and electronics

Yu Kuwabara (*1984): Seven Studies about "Image" for violin, cello, piano (2018)

Broken Frames Syndicate

William Overcash (violin)
Kyubin Hwang (cello)
Vitalii Kyianytsia (piano)

live-recording, February 2022, Musikschule Lüneburg by Dirk Dechring

Composer's website:
https://3shimai.com/yu/

Yu Kuwabara (*1984): Seven Studies about "Image" for violin, cello, piano (2018) (live)

Le Petit Scandale - Ensemble Intercontemporain (2023)

Angélica Castelló (*1972): Isla de Hornos for trashy instruments, four performers and tape 

24. Weimarer Frühjahrstage
28.05.23 / MON AMI, Weimar (Germany)
live-recording

4 performers:
Lola Rubio
Peng-Hui Wang
Sophie-Justine Herr
Katrin Szamatulski

Angélica Castelló: Isla de Hornos

the loss-
my MOTHER has long been separated from my LIMBS, HANDS, my STOMACH
and what has replaced this VOID?
let the tubes create itself and let them grow,
let them connect and rejoice,
let the animal to be reunited; to PROTECT me as my MOM would

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performed by Broken Frames Syndicate

watch with animation here: https://vimeo.com/912102230

Commissioned and premiered by Ensemble for New Music Tallinn.
Premiere 21.11.2024 at Festival Sound Plasma, Genezarethkirche, Berlin.

“This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

the dance above the abyss (2024) for sextet and electronics

桑原ゆう｜陀羅尼のまにまに (2016) for six musicians
commissioned by ensemble mise-en for MISE-EN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2016
recorded live at the cell on June 22, 2016
premiered by ensemble mise-en｜Kelley Barnett (fl), Vasko Dukovski (bcl), Mark Brochinsky (tb), Yumi Suehiro (pf), Maya Bennardo (vn), Evan Runyon (cb), Moon Young Ha (cond)
score published by Edition Gravis: https://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p2735_Dharani-no-Manimani.html

Dharani no Manimani

Dharani no Manimani (Drifting with Dharani)(2016) for 6 musicians

桑原ゆう｜三つの聲 (2016) for violin, viola, and cello
written as part of Academy Voix Nouvelles 2016 at Fondation Royaumont
recorded live at Abbaye de Royaumont on September 9, 2016
premiered by Talea Ensemble｜Yuki Numata Resnick (violin), Elizabeth Weisser Helgeson (viola), Chris Gross (cello)
The recording+score video is available on the Score Follower channel: https://youtu.be/maphPICGEvQ

Three Voices

Three Voices (2016) for violin, viola, and cello

Anat Nazarathy & Katrin Szamatulski, Bass Flutes

Please listen with headphones or good speakers!

Score available here:
http://www.israelcomposers.org/CompositionDetails.aspx?lang=English&id=37201

Recorded in the Basel Music Academy, Jazz Campus Saal, May 28th 2017

Recorded by Jan Gubser
Mixed and edited by Omri Abram

“Ice Flow” revolves around the ideas of large forces of subterranean movement, not always easy to discern from the surface; of monolithic masses which are somehow alive. It is also a piece which contains an omnipresent tactility – as part of an ongoing search for a way to incorporate the body of the performer as an integral part of the sound experience. Voice and breath are an inseparable part of the sound in its perceived wholeness – both in its excitation and physical characteristics and in its emotional connotations.

Omri Abram - Ice Flow for two Bass Flutes  (2016)

Yu Kuwabara｜Spiral Mandala -Wind Chant and Night Chant- (2015)(excerpt)
for Shomyo (Japanese Buddhist chant), on traditional poetry of Native Americans
commissioned by and premiered by Shomyo no Kai - Voice of a Thousand Years
recorded live at Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan, on January 9 and 10, 2016
I recommend listening to this recording with headphones, earbuds, or earphones!!
The whole recording+score video is available on the Score Follower channel: https://youtu.be/TiN8E2f7J5s
The whole movie of the Spiral Mandala Ceremony: https://youtu.be/pV6SBxcS4D8

桑原ゆう｜螺旋曼荼羅 ー風の歌・夜の歌ー (2015)より抜粋
ネイティヴアメリカン、ナヴァホ族の創生神話より「風の歌」「夜の歌」のテキストによる
スパイラル聲明コンサートシリーズ vol.24「千年の聲」螺旋曼荼羅海会
2016年1月9、10日 @スパイラルガーデン (スパイラルビル1F)
委嘱・出演｜声明の会・千年の聲 (迦陵頻伽聲明研究会と七聲会による)
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Spiral Mandara

Spiral Mandala (2015, expt.) for Shomyo (Japanese Buddhist chant)

桑原ゆう｜影も溜らず (2017) for solo violin and eight musicians
written for the Composer Seminar of the Lucerne Festival Academy 2017
recorded live at KKL Luzern, Lucerne Hall on August 26, 2017
© Schweizer Radio SRF
premiered by Ensemble of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI｜Yutaka Shimoda (solo vn), Raoul Cho (fl), Tomonori Takeda (cl/bcl), Kevin Fairbairn (tb), Bill Solomon (perc), Jian Ren (vn), Alfonso Noriega (va), Simon Thompson (vc), Juan Díaz (cb), Johanna Malangré (cond)

Shadowless

Shadowless (2017) for solo violin and 8 musicians

for violin and cello
Ensemble Court-Circuit
Violin : Alexandra Greffin-Klein
Cello : Alexis Descharmes

Commissioned by Radio France.

Urphänomen I - 5 mouvements (2018)

Yu Kuwabara - Rattling Darkness live at the Lilypad

Germany-based Contemporary Music Ensemble
*** Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize 2024***

The Frankfurt, Germany-based Broken Frames Syndicate plays contemporary music and brings holistic concert experiences to the stage. The ten of us show alternatives to the usual and stand up for the critical examination of socially relevant topics. Our focus is on collaboration with young composers, through which we commit ourselves to the diversification of the contemporary classical scene. The conceptual depth of our programming is the core of our vision. With new formats, we use music to tell stories, inspire discussions, think outside the box, and invest in new ways of thinking. In doing so, we consciously free ourselves from outdated structures and dogmas of the music business. Founded in 2018 after our time at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, we now play in varying formations and regularly perform in concerts and at festivals in Germany and abroad. Recent invitations include Mixtur Festival in Barcelona, the Harvard Group for New Music residency, and Beethovenfest Bonn. Broken Frames Syndicate has been awarded the Ensemble Prize 2024 of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and was supported by the InSzene program of the German Music Council.

Yu Kuwabara (*1984): Seven Studies about "Image" for violin, cello, piano (2018) (live)

Broken Frames Syndicate

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