"Fleeter" for piano with extended techniques (2020)
by Nathaniel Ouzana (b. 1995)

* World Premiere Recording *

| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Nathaniel Ouzana: Fleeter | Hagai Yodan, piano

Spielt, Kinderlach!

Performed by the Downwind Quintet
at the Schulich School of Music, Montreal, 2017.

Jaena Kim, flute
Carly Gordon,Oboe 
Nick Walshe, Clarinet 
Ryan Garbett, Horn
Kristy Tucker, Bassoon

Recording: Austin Stawowczyk

The Tribal Fire (2017)

Performed by Kyoko Hashimoto
Schulich School of Music, Montreal, 2017

Recording: Sarah Wong

Fantasia in Between (2016)

Performed on May 25, 2017 in Redpath Hall, McGill University

Adrian Foster,  organ
Rob Cosgrove, percussion 
Francis Leduc, trumpet 
Kimberly Lynch, Rona Nadler, Alex Ross, Angèle Trudeau, voice 
Veronica Galicia Lopez, conductor

Six poems by Lalla, the poetess from Kashmir
translated by Coleman Barks (from his book “Naked Song”)

1.
Forgetful one, get up!
It’s dawn, time to start searching.
 
Open your wing and lift.
Give like he blacksmith
even breath to the bellows.
 
Tend the fire that changes
the shape of metal.
 
Alchemical work begins at dawn,
as you walk out to meet the Friend.
 
 
2.
When you eat too much,
you forget your truth,
 
and fasting makes you conceited,
so eat with some discipline,
and consciously. Be
an ordinary human being.
 
Then the door will open,
and you’ll recognize the way.
Lalla, be moderate!


3.
The soul, like the moon,
is now, and always new again.
 
And I have seen the ocean
continuously creating.
Since I scoured my mind
and my body, I too, Lalla,
am new, each moment new.
 
My teacher told me one thing,
live in the soul.
 
When that was so
I began to walk naked
and dance.
 
 
4.
The royal fan, sunshade, and chariot,
the throne itself, the happy feasting,
the theatre nights, your soft, down bed,
which of these can help your fear of death?
 
You’ve demolished the high banked march road.
How is it now in the swamp?
Death will come at one specific moment.
How does that make you feel?
 
There are two results and three causes.
Practice the breath. Rise
through the disc of the sun.
Your death panic will fade.
 
Let your body wear your knowing.
Let your heart sing songs.
Lalla has become a syllable
of soul-light. There is no death.

 
5.
Lord, you exist
as me. Your power moves,
and I start walking.
 
A prior impulse is the only difference
between us. Other than that, 
everything I am is you.

 
6.
Dance, Lalla, with nothing on
but air. Sing, Lalla,
wearing the sky.
 
Look at this glowing day! What clothes
could be so beautiful, or
more sacred?

Lalla (also known as Lallshweri or Lal Ded) was a saint and a poet who lived in Kashmir in the 14th century. Living in a period when many religious sects were flourishing simultaneously, Lalla did not belong exclusively to any of them. She had revolutionary views about worship in society: in her behaviour and in her poetry, she aimed to make ritual accessible not only to men of high-class but to the common woman and man. Her poetry, never written down in her lifetime, continues to be recited in the form of mantras and chants until today, and have had a profound influence on Kashmiri culture.

Searching for Lalla in Between the Vowels (2017)

This is a stereo demo of Trail Crossing which is a response of sorts to Stockhausen's Hymnnen, from an anti-nationalist perspective. The piece is for 12 loudspeakers placed equally around the space, where the audience is welcome to sit or walk around. It was commissioned by Michael Schumacher for the Multiarchiverse series and premiered at the Avery Fischer Music Center at NYU, March 2019. 
This is a stereo demo.

Trail Crossing Demo

Einat Aronstein - Voice
Oded Geizhals - Percussion and Toys

Live recording - Herrenhaus Edenkoben 17.11.2019

Johannes (2019)

"Ya'af/ Fly By" (2019)
for ensemble "Airborne Extended"
live performance recording 16/1/2020
Sonja Leipold, Cembalo
Caroline Mayrhofer, Paetzold
Elena Gabbrielli, flute
Tina Žerdin, harp

Fly By/ יעף

mastered by Heather Jones at So Big Auditory in Philadelphia, PA
cover art by Leah Jacobson and Ko Takasugi-Czernowin

https://kotakasugi-czernowin.bandcamp.com/track/spider-verse

lyrics
Living in a gold world
and its not fair what you are now its not what you came for
spider verse
that fascist urge
your recourse was to hide out in words
when you find yourself alone
and you see that now there's nowhere home
that character resides in layered stone
Anthro

Living in a cold world
and its not fair what you are now that you cannot endure
don't you think its funny that you think you care so much but not enough?

Living in an old world
and its not fair where you are now that you are unenclosed
metaphor
you came here first
its only reflecting back your worth
when you thought that you were one
an aesthetic object just begun
your living fear cannot deflect the sun
Anthro

Spider Verse

בעד האשנב - שני שירים לקול ופסנתר

מילים: הדס גלעד
לחן: נעה הרן
ביצוע: שקד בר (מצו-סופרן) וברונווין שומאן (פסנתר)

1. עדת ראיה

א
אֲנִי אֵשֶׁת פּוֹטִיפַר.
כַּחוֹל לָרֹב — כְּמוֹתִי רַבּוֹת
נְשׁוֹת אִישִׁים
נַשָּׂאִיּוֹת תְּמָנוּן תְּשׁוּקָה.
רְאוּ, אֶפְשָׁר לִחְיוֹת עם זה בְּהְַדחָָקה.
בַּבִַּית פְּנִימָה. בַּלֵּבָב.
אֶלָּא שֶׁאֶל תּוֹך בֵּיתִי הֻשְׁלַך הַגֵּץ אַדְמוֹן בּוֹעֵר
וְלֹא יכֹלְתִּי לַעֲשׂוֹת כְּלוּם.

ב
כִּשּׁוּף אָחַז בִּי, שְׁמוֹ
יוֹסֵף —
נִלְַחשׁ נִסְתַּר בַּמִּסְדְּרוֹנוֹת
יוֹם־יוֹם — יוֹסֵף —
כְּשֶׁמֵּעָלָיו אְֶפשֹׁט את עוֹר הַכְּתֶֹנת
פַּסִּים מַקְבִּילִים
אֵיך יִפָּגְשׁוּ—

ג
בַּחֲלוֹמוֹת לֵילִי
שַׁלְהָבוֹת שִׁבָּלִים
נָבְטוּ בַּאַחַת
וּבְבֶֹּקר אֶחָד
לֹא הָָיה לִי אִכְַפּת
פַּסִּים, הִסּוּסִים,
אִי־אֶפְשָׁר, פּוֹטִיפַר,
וְיוֹסֵף אָז חָלַף,
מְאֹד קָרוֹב אֵלַי,
סִמֵּר את שִׂמְלָתִי
וּמֵעַצְמָן
שְׁתֵּי יַדי —

ד
פִּתִּיתִי אוֹתוֹ אוֹ פִָּתּה הוּא אוֹתִי?
זֹאת אוֹמַר: הוּא קָרָא לִי
בִּשְׁמִי הַפְָּרטִי.

~

Through the Lattice
Two songs for Mezzo-Soprano and piano

Text by Hadas Gilad
Music by Noa Haran
Performed by Shakèd Bar (Mezzo Soprano) and Bronwyn Schuman (piano)
Commissioned by The Juilliard School
for the 2018-2019 Vocal Arts Honors Recital

I. Witness

I am the wife of Potiphar
Women like me are as plentiful as send
Wives of men
Carriers of a lust octopus.
You see, you can repress it, keep it
Indoors. In your heart.
But this spark was thrown right into my house,
A burning ruddy
And there was nothing I could do about it.
*
I was possessed by a spell, his name
Joseph –
Whispered hidden in the corridors
Each day – Joseph –
When I will take the skin-dress off him
How shall Parallel stripes
Meet –
*
In my night dreams
Flames of grains
Have sprouted at once
And one morning
I didn’t care
Stripes, hesitations,
Not possible, Potiphar,
And Joseph then passed by
Very near to me
And by themselves
Both my hands –
*
Did I seduce him or was it he who seduced me?
This I will say: he called me
By my first name.

Johannes (2019)

Eliav Kohl

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