New Music Unlisted - 8 (Kitaptan Sonra)

duos, trios & quartets

Score Follower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEkwERKf8WE
Written for and recorded by the JACK Quartet (https://jackquartet.com/).

Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins
John Pickford Richards, viola
Jay Campbell, violoncello

Recorded by Brian Riordan at Salisbury Congregational Church, Vermont, June 2021.

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as eroding arches collide [2021] for string quartet

For amplified mixed quartet. 

Written for and premiered by @ensemble-dal-niente
(https://www.dalniente.com/) 

Constance Volk, bass flute and piccolo 
Kyle Flens, percussion 
Jesse Langen, electric guitar  
Theo Ramsey, violin and viola  

Christopher Wendell Jones, conductor

Recorded by Michael Sportiello @ Gannon Concert Hall, DePaul University School of Music, Chicago/IL, July 2021. 

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cleaved shallow water [2021]

for violin, viola, re-embodied cello and electronics.

"fate(un)strung" was possible thanks to the support of Edmund Campion, Jeremy Wagner, Carmine Emanuele-Cella, Jean Geoffroy and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. ​

Written for and premiered by members of Eco Ensemble as part of the CNMAT/CNSMDL collaborative concert (https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/events/concert-cnmatcnsmdl)

Premiere Info:
Hrabba Atladottir, violin and prepared cello
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and prepared cello
Electronics (Max/MSP patch) performed by the composer.

Recorded by Jeremy Wagner @ Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley, California/USA, December 2021.

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fate(un)strung [2021]

yet the dew remains in pale (2011-12) Orchestra

for 2 trombonists, accessory instruments and electronics.

Written for and premiered by @rage-thormbones:
@wolencki - trombone and accessory instruments (expression pedal+transistors, bowed plastic and snare drum), 
@mattbarbier-1 - trombone and accessory instruments (1/4-inch jack+guitar pedals, prepared vinyl tubing, brushes and snare drum),
Electronics (Max/MSP patch) performed by the composer. 

Recorded by Andrew Harlan (with additional support from Hallie Smith, Jon Yu and Curtis Rumrill) at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), UC Berkeley, California/USA, April 2022.

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surrogate heart [2022]

2022.10
Commissioned by Huikuan Lin and Taipei C-Camerata
Composer: Chen-Hui Jen
Pipa: Huikuan Lin
Violin: Chia-Lun Chang
Recording: Chia-Lung Huang
Mastering: Jacob David Sudol

Still mountains, still... (2022)for pipa and violin

proximity (bodiless etchings) - for flute and violin [2023]

• Written for Ensemble Suono Giallo.
Andrea Biagini, flutes
Chiara Franceschini, violin

• Premiered at the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week 2023,
@ Centro Studi Musicali della Valtiberina, 23 July 2023, Sansepolcro, Italy

• Recording by David Giacchè, mixed by Theocharis Papatrechas.

• Program Notes:
"proximity (bodiless etchings)" explores a metaphor that summons the imagery of gestures as acts of sculpting intangible matter into ethereal forms. Within this evocative landscape, the act of shaping intangible ephemeral sonic sculptures seeks to unlock hidden truths and unexplored connections within the musical material. As the flute and violin voices navigate in varying degrees and types of separation, they trace these ethereal strokes, imprinting the performance space with invisible marks that perhaps evoke radiant lights and elusive whispers.
The composition is about the intimate conversational space where sonic memories blur and still find a path towards embodiment. From delicate suggestions to impassioned declarations, the performers unfold nuanced gestures that hint at the essence of variations, yet never fully embracing it. Their performance navigates this nuanced terrain in which subtleties are highlighted while their closeness is questioned.

proximity (bodiless etchings) [2023]

shaped and already gone - for piano and percussion quartet [2023]

• Written for and premiered by @yarn-wire

Laura Barger, piano, keyboard, and accessory percussion
Julia Den Boer, piano, keyboard, and accessory percussion
Russell Greenberg, percussion, objects, and transducers
Sae Hashimoto, percussion and objects

• Recording of the premiere @ Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley 
15 December 2023, Berkeley/CA, USA. 
Recorded by Jeremy Wagner and Brendan West.

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• Program Notes:

This piece speaks to the paradoxical idea of molding existence into non-existence. Perhaps it seeks a dialogue between what is tangible and what is not—and imagined like so. 
It delves into a sense of interconnected temporalities and imagines what could travel across planes. 
There is also the perception of heaviness and the charged icons of one's personal narrative. 
This work talks about types of presences, reimagined objects, and whatever impalpable things accompany them. Intentional creation and impermanence. 

"He throws a stone today and kills a bird yesterday" (Ulli Beier, 1970). I have always interpreted the Yoruba aforism on Eshu as a reflection on consequences that defy our conventional understanding of time, in connections that appear impossible between cause and effect. 
To me, one challenge of creating lies in incorporating a possible future into a version of the past, although neither can exist.

In this piece, some sounds were simply laid flat. Others were revived or borrowed from elsewhere. What connects them (or not) is what I'm currently identifying as my own.

shaped and already gone [2023]

into silence, and keep falling (2016) cello and piano

Ensemble: 20° dans le noir （www.ensemble20degres.com）
Mastering: Jacob Sudol

until after the twilight (2017) for flute, accordion, cello, contrabass, and electronics

Chen-Hui Jen's "d'un songe" for piano and live electronics performed live by the Jen + Sudol Duo at the Chai Found 101 in Taipei, Taiwan on June 18, 2016.

Chen-Hui Jen: "d'un songe" for piano and live electronics

Brazilian composer, performer, and researcher. 
PhD candidate - Department of Music/CNMAT, UC Berkeley (USA).

[profile photo by Gui Machala at Festival Plurisons 2024, Belo Horizonte/Brazil]

https://www.dannielribeiro.com/
https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/danniel-ribeiro

Contact: 
dannielribeiro@berkeley.edu
dannfribeiro@gmail.com
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www.instagram.com/danniel1ribeiro
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DannFRibeiro

Bio: 
Danniel RIBEIRO is a Brazilian composer from Bahia. His compositional practice is driven by research and creative exploration, focusing on exploratory instrumental writing and improvised performances supported by emerging technologies and informed by investigations into culture and identity. He examines musical gesture, instrumentality, and materiality to expand the expressive possibilities of complex timbral constructs and instrumental/sound phenomena in his compositions. His work integrates theoretical inquiry with practical experimentation, often involving the development of tailored instrumental preparations, modifications, notational systems, practical sculptural objects, amplification/transduced electronic apparatuses, and performance techniques. Danniel’s goal is to critically engage with social and cultural dimensions of contemporary concert music through research, analysis, performance, and creation, exploring the interplay between idiosyncratic artistic invention and broader cultural dynamics.

A four-time recipient of Brazil's National Composition Prize (FUNARTE), Danniel has participated in events and residencies, including Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria), the Banff Centre (Canada), Domaine Forget (Canada), Barcelona Modern (Spain), Darmstadt (GER), Festival Musica (France), New Music on the Point (USA), and ilSUONO (Italy). His works have been performed at notable venues and festivals such as Empreintes (France), Morelia (Mexico), and Sala São Paulo (Brazil).
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Danniel has collaborated with leading international ensembles, including L’Instant Donné, Yarn/Wire, Schallfeld, JACK Quartet, Barcelona Modern, RAGE Thormbones, collective lovemusic, Dal Niente, Vertixe Sonora, and Suono Giallo. He has also benefited from advanced studies with Chaya Czernowin, Franck Bedrossian, Clara Iannotta, Philippe Hurel, Malin Bång, Toshio Hosokawa, Felipe Lara, Daniel D'Adamo, Januibe Tejera, Mark Andre, Brian Ferneyhough, and Du Yun.

Danniel earned his master’s degree in composition (M.Mus.) at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University (Canada) in 2018, studying under Philippe Leroux. As a laureate of the 2023/24 George Ladd Prix de Paris, he pursued independent studies in France and recently completed the postgraduate specialization in instrumental and mixed composition at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (France). Currently, Danniel is a Ph.D. candidate in music composition at UC Berkeley (USA), studying with Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno, Myra Melford, and Carmine-Emanuele Cella.

as eroding arches collide [2021] for string quartet

Danniel Ribeiro