1st Prize Corwin Awards 2023

Shortlisted at IEMC - International Electronic Music Competition 2022

What people say is not always what they think, people act to exist in the society, to live a life that follows certain rules of standardization. Occasionally, particular events bring us outside our routine in which we are constantly immersed, almost to the point of drowning, and some thoughts emerge like interferences in our mind-set. Thoughts that create a different pattern in our steady life, that force us to stop and reflect, in a moment of reconnection with ourselves, as human being and part of the nature. How magical and refreshing is the place where it is allowed to reconcile with our body and mind?! But, how long can we hold out? There is always a point in which we have to come back to reality. However, what is reality? Is that what society suggests us to be real?

NO Synths are used in this track! :)

SHOMO

Turning Point [Cello & Electronics]

When we are lost and confused, when we are stuck in a difficult moment, situation or place, when we face new challenges in life, when we are in the middle of an important change that feels scary, there is eventually a turning point in which we choose a direction and realize how actually dangerous it was to stay still.

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Turning Point [Cello & Electronics]

A tempestuous journey through time, into the profound recesses of memory. Hidden and distant realms of moments and snapshot recollections, a personal odyssey guided by the echoes of childhood sounds.

MEMORIA

Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Franck Ollu, conductor
Flagey, Bruxelles 24.11.15

Esserepelle(2014)_orchestral sketch

Selected from the following Calls:
Sound Thought 2018 (Glasgow, UK), EMUfest 2017 (Rome, IT), MA/IN 2017 - MAtera INtermedia festival (Matera, IT), MusLab 2017 (Mexico City, MEX), Acousmatic Premiere Performance Competition - TEM (Udine, IT).

The piece is made by three movements. Violent gestures interrupt a fake tranquillity. Deeper, there is a stormy excitement that really comes out in the last part. Silence, virtual-space and picture-background management, are just a few of the important aspects which the composition is focused on.

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KMH Vokalensemble
Conductors, Tove Åhrman&Marc Díaz
Music, Gemma Ragués
Poems by Roger Fjellström&Enric Casasses
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PÅ SIN HÖJD - Roger Fjellström

1.
Vinterhimmel -
Mildaste molnen
Rosiga drar de åter
solen ner under täckelsen

2.
Ljusbuk! stryker sakta, försynt
hopkrupna urbergets päls
Purpurpust, irissky
Himmelsvinter -


AL PRINCIPI ERA EL VENT - Enric Casasses

Al principi era el vent  fent 
fressa entre les branques

i ens posem a cantar

i en ser la cançó ordida 
el silenci descobríem

i vam saber que som  
de l’esperit 
de les cançons 
del vent d’entre les branques

i amb prou feines ser-hi ara 
és més que viure i morir

April 2018. Stockholm

På sin höjd - Roger Fjellström

N'vi'ah is an Old Testament word meaning prophetess. 
A prophetess conveys one or more divine messages often in the form of inspired songs. And many times her words are cryptic, requiring interpretation or even translation. This work uses isolated phonemes as musical material. Intelligible words are not articulated, leaving to the listener the imagination of what their contents and meanings could be. N'vi'ah was commissioned by the Ibermúsicas Project, and composed at the Human Interaction Laboratory - Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. It is dedicated to Federico Schumacher.

N'vi'ah

"ROSSANA" è il titolo del nuovo lavoro di Francesco Perissi XO. Il nome di una persona cara scomparsa racchiude un immaginario simbolico della sfera emozionale dell’affettività, spesso segnata dal dolore della separazione e dal brivido dell’incontro, dall’impulso distruttivo e quello costruttivo, dalla paura e dalle fragilità.
CONCEPT - La descrizione di questi processi avviene attraverso 5 fasi progressive che descrivono il superamento di un evento traumatico: negazione, rabbia, patteggiamento, depressione, accettazione. All’interno di questa struttura due brani interpretanoe con la musica e testi le impressioni e le sensazioni di ogni fase, nell'idea di una dimensione “catartica” della musica.

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Rossana

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Cicada

Peter Oundjian, conductor
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Commissioned by Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Sound Investment

Inspired by the trailblazing work of artist Miriam Schapiro, warp & weft is a celebration of the creative process and specifically the Schapiro-coined term “femmage.” Femmage, or feminist collage, defines any activity practiced by women using traditional women’s techniques to achieve their art—collage, decoupage, and weaving, just to name a few. Schapiro used the term to elevate the significance of women’s crafting in the home which was historically denigrated as “decorative” art compared to predominantly male artists whose pieces were classified as “high” art. The form and content of warp & weft is particularly inspired by the art of weaving. I visualized a loom and the act of weaving while composing, where the weft (horizontal axis of the loom) is represented by sections dedicated to gradually developing melodies, and the warp (vertical axis of the loom) depicts the sections identified by strong vertical chords. Throughout the piece, I imagine Schapiro’s studio, full of color, various materials, and ideas, swirling around in a fantastical way as she moves from medium to medium celebrating the history and artistic viewpoints of women past, present, and future.

warp & weft (excerpt)

[Electroacoustic Works Only].

Diego Ratto (aka TTØRA) is a musician and composer currently based in Los Angeles, CA. 

He received a Bachelor of Music in jazz guitar in 2016 and in electronic music in 2017 from Music Conservatory "A.Vivaldi" in Alessandria (Italy). He graduated from KMH - Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Sweden) with a Master of Music in electroacoustic composition in 2019. 

He is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). 

He has been awarded with the following prizes: ULJUS 2023, Corwin Award 2023, Prix Russolo 2022, IEMC 2022, Golden Lala Awards 2020 (Poznan, PL), Sound of Silences - Film Scoring / Romaeuropa Festival 2020 (Rome, IT), Musicworks Magazine Electronic Music Contest 2020 (Toronto, CAN), Wocmat 2018 International Phil Winsor Computer Music, Rimusicazioni Film Festival 2018 (Bolzano, IT), Prix CIME 2017 - International Confederation Music, Electroacoustic Contest EFME 2016 (Santa Fe, RA).

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Diego Ratto

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