Anatomy Lesson for viola

Order - Del I pour flûte et percussions - 2010 - Esaias Järnegard 

Le cycle Order tire son nom de la collection de poème Ordre datant de 1978 de l'écrivain suédois Lars Norén. Toutes les pièces sont liées à la poésie, chacune à leur manière. Auteur de plus d'une quarantaine de pièces de théâtre, son œuvre, sans être autobiographique, est imprégnée de résurgences personnelles telles que les maladies psychiatriques ou les relations conflictuelles entre parents et enfants. Le cycle Order se compose en 9 parties. Celles-ci doivent être considérées comme des pièces individuelles. 

Enregistrement du 28/03/15 à l'Utopicerie - Paris

Order - Del 1 // Esaias Järnegard

Matt Adomeit's tune Salem, live from the Tank NYC on 9 Jan 2016, Chartreuse PLUS Triple Point Trio (Jonny Allen, drums, Doug Perry, vibes, Sam Suggs, bass)

Salem (with Triple Point Trio)

Reiko Fueting's "Kaddish: The Art of Losing," transcribed for viola. Carrie Frey, viola; Robert Fleitz, piano. Live performance in New York City on 17 April 2016.

Reiko Fueting - Kaddish

IMPORTANT: Please listen at a LOUD comfortable volume that makes your ear parts move a little. You should hear a lot of air shifting. (Ideally headphones or biggish bass-friendly speakers.) 


Written in close collaboration with Distractfold Ensemble, featuring: 


Rocío Bolaños - bass clarinet (w transposition pedals)
Daniel Brew - electric guitar
Linda Jankowska -  bowed kick + snare drums (drums outfitted with bridges + strings)
Christian Smith - bowed kick drum (as above)+ other percussion
Alice Purton - cello (w transposition pedals)
Sabrina Schroeder - transducers (playing bass drum, floor tom, and plywood cubes via live-manipulated sound waves through transducers).

Transducer performance interface developed with programming and design support from Josiah Oberholtzer, and from Michael Acker of the Experimentalstudio de SWR Freiburg. 

This live-performance recording was made at the 48th Internationale Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (Aug. 7th, 2016)

BONE GAMES (2016) for amplified ensemble

Viola duo performed by Carrie Frey and Hannah Levinson on 20 December 2016, Elebash Hall, NYC.

Viola Viola

live rec. from THE MAW 
w/ Carrie Frey (homemade instruments)
Myra Hinrichs (homemade instruments)
Helen Newby (homemade instruments)
and Jenn Grossman (audio)

• sounds best on earbuds •

droch (ft. Chartreuse, Jenn Grossman) [2016-17]

Momenta Quartet
(Alex Shiozaki, violin; Stephanie Griffin, viola;  Michael Haas, violoncello)
February 19, 2017
Scandinavia House, New York

Remastered by Yoshiaki Onishi

Score: https://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p2213_Envoi-II.html
Parts: https://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p2278_Envoi-II.html

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Commissioned by Music From Japan (New York).

When I wrote my Culs-de-sac (en passacaille) for string quartet in 2009, it was evident to me that I should develop the sonic soundscape that I have created in that piece. I have decided that I write Les six aspects du néant, a cycle of compositions for string quartet and its subsets.

Envoi II marks the fourth piece that I completed in this cycle. Envoi is another series of pieces I have been working on since 2015. In this piece, these two cycles intersect in their compositional and affective senses.

This piece relates itself to the cycle Les six aspects du néant, for its compositional materials are taken from the pieces within that cycle that I have already written. These materials have been then worked out once again in order to compose this piece.

In its literary sense, an envoi (or envoy) is an author’s concluding words, or a short stanza that concludes a ballade. In modern French, it is a word frequently used to denote the action of “sending off” (packages or letters) or simply “sending” (one’s best wishes, etc.). While its author is specific, the recipient could be, depending on the context, open-ended. It may be to someone alive, or it may be to a fictional character, or someone deceased.

As I started to write this piece, I received the news that James Deitz, percussionist whom I have been privileged to know since my time during the graduate studies at Yale University, departed from this world. This piece is dedicated to his memory.

Many thanks are due to Prof. Fuyuko Fukunaka, musicologist at Tokyo University of the Arts who extended the opportunity to write this work for the Music From Japan Festival 2017, Mr. Naoyuki Miura and Ms. Mari Ono, organizers of Music From Japan (New York), and the members of Momenta Quartet.

- Yoshiaki Onishi

Envoi II - for string trio (2016)

Performed live on 11.08.2017 at the Kalv Festival.

Rocío Bolaños - clarinets
Linda Jankowska - violin
Emma Richards - viola
Alice Purton - cello

Ann Cleare - Ore

World premiere performance at Dartmouth College's Rolins Chapel on March 4th, 2017. Performed using Miller's novel animated score notation. The "Teller Light" is the initial flash of light in a nuclear explosion.

Performed by Sound Energy
Micah Brightwell, violin
Ashe Gordon, viola
Ben Swartz, cello

Daniel Miller: "Teller Light" (2017)for amplified violin, viola, cello and live electronics

Live performance by Ensemble Chartreuse, May 18, 2019, Bloomington, IN

Commissioned by Network for New Music; composed 2016

Premiered Feb. 26, 2017, Settlement Music School (Queen St.), Philadelphia, PA

Figure to Ground is a musical response to "Poem from Hölderlin" by Susan Stewart. As images do in the poem, musical ideas move quickly between foreground to background in non-linear cycles of growth and decay. This piece was commissioned by Network for New Music as part of their "Poetry through Music" program. Six new pieces written specifically for that program each responded to Stewart's poem, which was itself commissioned for the event.

Figure to Ground (live, Ensemble Chartreuse)

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Salem (with Triple Point Trio)

EnsembleChartreuse