Livemitschnitt UA am 21.03.2023 Video Oleg Michajlov

Ensembletrilogie

Newski Ensembletrilogie III - Memory (2023)

'The More I Think About It...' is my first foray into the world of sound art. This piece takes after the soundwalks of Hildegard Westerkamp, but adds a psychological and socio-cultural element by juxtaposing statements from a variety of sources (e.g news reports, interviews, panel discussions) against environmental sounds. The result is a soundwalk of both the environment and of the mind; specifically, the internal and external sounds a woman hears when she is walking home alone at night. In doing so, this piece seeks to expose the inherent flaws in the mainstream discussion around women's freedom of movement. 

The More I Think About It, The Bigger It Gets

For Alto Flute and Prepared Harp. Composed for Cochlea Duo for the 2016 soundSCAPE festival. Premiered and recorded by Cochlea Duo, 8th July 2016 in Maccagno, Italy. 
Performance notes: "I have recently become interested in exploring the relationship between music and the body. This includes exploring how physical phenomena can be expressed and understood sonically. Scintillation is inspired by my experience of scintillating scotomas, which almost always follow the same trajectory: a small shimmering light in my outer field of vision, which gradually spreads from left to right, forming dazzlingly detailed patterns before disintegrating into a thick haze of light and colour. The materials in Scintillation utilise the unique timbral and expressive qualities of the flute and harp to evoke these patterns, and the overall form of the piece vaguely follows the onset and progression of symptoms. Like other pieces inspired by the corporeal, the aim of this piece is to create something positive out of a painful, albeit fascinating personal experience."

Scintillation

I have conceived the piece as being organised around several key pitches which encircle the work's sonic geography like the lines of latitude which run around the earth. The opening explosively presents these boundaries, and from there the music expands and contracts as bands of pitch space anchored to these lines, a constant tuning and re-tuning of the orchestra between these horizontal planes of sound. Within this shifting, liminal sound-world different instrumental colours and combinations emerge and recede before the whole booming potential of the orchestra is finally gathered and pours out in a mass of sound which instantly vanishes into the long metal dissolve that concludes the piece.

Performed by the University of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Fabian Russell

Restless Parallels (2016)

dedicated to Peter Adriaansz

commissioned by the Shanghai Conservatory and Shanghai Symphony

recorded by David Yi and the Yale Philharmonia with the inimitable JX Yu singing.

Electronics by Patrick McMinn

Ascending for voice, orchestra, and sinewaves

James Hullick: guitar, voice, electronics
Nat Grant: drums, percussion, electronics

Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Halfway from Pluto

Passing

For 2 Violins, Viola and French Horn. performed by players from The University of Alaska, Fairbanks during the Fairbanks Summer Music Festival, AK July 2012

A Letter to the King of Norway 2012

Composer and pianist from currently based in Berlin. Contact me at e.simic.prosic@gmail.com

Some longer projects and videos of performances can be found at my YouTube channel through the link below.

Restless Parallels (2016)

Eli Simic-Prosic

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