Text: Elisa de Toffol
Mezzo soprano: Elisa De Toffol
Triple Harp: Michela Amici 
Live recording Gaudeamus 2021

I Poeti - Karmit Fadael

For amplified cello and piano (2020–21)

The title (Spanish for ‘dry soil’) responds to an exploration of dryness as an opportunity to study he fragility of timbre from the particular and intimate experience of friction. In this composition, noise is especially approached as a dynamic entity from the materials that rub, brush or scrap the strings. Therefore, performers are invited to approach their instruments as dry soil territories in which they move to discover each textural identity. Cello and piano are explored as mirrored sources of sound, thus both instruments respond to each other as mutual extensions of their timbral conditions. Amplification works as a microscope: rather than just intensifying the sound, it is thought of as a magnifier of the inside of timbre, its structure and behaviour. 

Performers: Ivana Peranic (cello) and Rachel Fryer (piano)
Live recording at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2021.
Illuminate Women's Music Concert Series

suelo seco (2020–21) | Michele Abondano

Silent Durations was written for Marc Benyahia-Kouider and premiered by him in 2007 in Poitiers, France.

For some, Silent Durations represent a zen experience, for others, a moment where the equality of silence and sound is placed in the foreground and for others because they happen to be there.

"Savor the silence as nourishment for the upcoming sound"

1. DM Silent Durations XXI - Benyahia Kouider

Performed by the hague philharmonic 

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Uitgevoerd door het residentie orkest

Ananim

1 (CD recording by Alfian Emir Aditiya)

This is a jazz oboe solo I played from the 1970's. It was the first time I had ever felt free with the oboe. For the occasion I made my reed a little differently from my usual classical ones. This enabled me to bend notes more easily. The sound is more open and rough. You'll notice that at one point I do a chorus of multiphonics (playing more than one note at the same time) and a couple of times I reach up to the double high 'C'. You'll also hear some of the players yelling encouragement and the great reception from the public. This is 'live' so the recording acoustics are not very refined. Hope you enjoy this.

Jazz blues oboe solo (1977)

Recording of a live performance of Irae by 'het Doelenensemble'. Played on 20/12/2019 in "de Jurriaansezaal" of concerthall De doelen. Conducted by Maarten van Veen!

1. DM Silent Durations XXI - Benyahia Kouider

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