French Premiere. April 5th, 2015. Ensemble 2e2m. Pierre Roullier, dir. Shigeko Hata, sop.

Program Note:

Act is a work that is concerned with the way musical ideas are heard and seen, and how the form emerges from shifts in attention from one to the other. A theatre of relationships emerges in this musical context, whereupon each performer’s physical presence and sounds are weighed against poetic, spatial, technological and physiological circumstances.

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Initially, the soprano is silent, contrasting with an ensemble that appears unified as one mass. Gradually, however, sub-groups emerge. The way the players are spatially arranged divides the instrumentalists into four heterogeneous sub-groups; at other points, the two percussionists cooperate as a duo, the strings as a quintet, and the trombone and woodwinds as a quartet. There is a special trio that consists of the trombone, clarinet and baritone saxophone equipped with laryngophones (a sort of throat microphone, of military origins), thereby isolating vocal utterances that originate in the larynx. With this special tool, the utterance of these three players engenders a sort of argument with the soprano, and her singing becomes increasingly expressive. This animates the entire group, and the work gradually opens up towards an end which is familiar yet unresolved.


Act (2014), for soprano and 12 players, Ensemble 2e2m

Januibe Tejera
Flashforward I
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dir. Baldur Brönnimann
Commande du Festival de Darmstadt

Flashforward I

FREC 3 (2016-2017)
pour flûte, violoncello, percussion, piano and live amplification.
Dur. 52:00
Commande de l'Auditori de Barcelona/Sampler Series 2015-16
Création : Agustí Fernández, piano. Almudena Vega, flûte. Miriam Fèlix, violoncello. Núria Andorrà, percussion. Ferran Conangla, amplification. Sampler Series/Auditori de Barcelona, Fundació Tàpies, 22.02.2017.
RECORDING : Ferran Conangla

FREC 3 (2016/17)- Fragment

A wide-ranging discussion of new music, culture, and saying something with music between Third Angle New Music Artistic Director Ron Blessinger, soprano Tony Arnold, and composer Gabriela Lena Frank.  Recorded live on 10/20/17 at Studio 2@N.E.W.

Tony Tony Tony

Post-Concert Talk with Ron Blessinger, Tony Arnold, & Gabriela Lena Frank

musicians:
Deanna Badizadegan
Michael Barnhart
Genevieve Clarkson
Joseph Colombo
Sean Connors
Derek Drudge
Ben Eisenberger
Jon Fischer
Alexandros Fragiskatos
Ben Fraley
Ben Gribble
Paula Karolak
Leanna Keith
Mabel Kwan
Alexandra Lugten
Neb Macura
Tristan McKay
Nick Montopoli
Nick Norton
Min Park
KJ Redman
Ryan Rey
David Samas
Jerod Sommerfeldt
Kevin Villalta
Rachel Walker
Jon Yu

workbook (exercise no. 4)

Michael Edward Edgerton: "Sirene Segmenti"

Angela Wingerath, Solo-Sopran
AUDITIVVOKAL DRESDEN
Olaf Katzer, direction

Live-recording chor.com Dortmund 15. September 2017

Michael Edward Edgerton "Sirene Segmenti" Three Excerpts

Performed by Conference Ensemble: Barry Crawford (flute/piccolo), Benjamin Finland (bass clarinet), Adda Kridler (violin), Chris Gross (cello), Steve Beck (piano), Matthew Gold & Alex Lipowski (percussion), and James Baker (conductor).
A Commission from BMV

Act (2014), for soprano and 12 players, Ensemble 2e2m

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