Rives, for 4 musicians.
Commissionned by Ensemble Ars Nova, 2020.

Éric Lamberger, Clarinet
Carl-Emmanuel Fisbach, Saxophone
Catherine Jacquet, Violin
Isabelle Veyrier, Cello

Recorded June 2021 @ Studio Sequenza (Montreuil)

Rives - version for 4 musicians - Mvt. 4 - Ars Nova (2020-21)

For solo cello with curved bow. Composed in 2002.
Live performance by Anton Lukoszevieze at the Kintai Festival, Lithuania, on 20 August 2022.

Raimondas Rumsas

BREAD [2021], from "interbeing"

score: www.wubbelsmusic.com/bread_score.html

written for and performed by TAK:
Marina Kifferstein, violin
Laura Cocks, flutes, wine bottle
Madison Greenstone, clarinet
Charlotte Mundy, voice, wine glasses, beer bottles, autoharp
Ellery Trafford, mixing bowls, beer bottles, wine glasses, autoharp

BREAD [2021], from "interbeing"  (w/ score)

L'emprunte d'Encyclie

Michikusa

Begin quietly with this, as one of the Ravens will perch and call right in front of the microphones, before receding into the distance, again. While it's up close, listen for the quiet 'after-voicing' at the end of many of its calls.

Recorded on land of the Danggali and Meru peoples. Unprocessed recording (96/24 > 48/24).

2023.05.19 Australian Ravens (Corvus coronoides). Mallee Country. Morning. Late Autumn.

A hug to die
(for 8 musicians)

Inspired by the play "The Pillowman", of the contemporary playwright Martin McDonagh.

Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dylan Corlay direction
Megaron - Athens Concert Hall

A hug to die (2023)

Grain | Stream
for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists & electronics

Première:
October 22nd, 2023 - Donaueschinger Musiktage 

Performers:
Yarn/Wire
Russell Greenberg, Sae Hashimoto (Percussion)
Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer (Klavier)

The idea of stream recalled in the title and central in the piece has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie consists of two canvases showing a dry desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falling down from the balance’s dishes. 
That’s a strong symbol of a possible new life re-growing from the desert landscape which is directly connected with the art of alchemy transforming lead into gold.


On the other hand streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time until leading the perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosen.

Grain I Stream

analog southern Chinese gourd flute via pedalboard (slate digital mic, voco loco, boss eq, donner delay, Kelley compressor)
"water harp" instrument rack created in ableton
gibbon and bird samples
ableton post fx (stereo ping delay, reverb, eq, mulitband compressor and limiter)

gibbons 'n' gourds

This CD features recordings of a now lost sculptural work that was originally commissioned in 2016 for Colour Out of Space festival. The work consists of over 100 empty computer cases, fitted with 16 customised and automated DVD drives. Between 2016 and 2018 it was exhibited in Brighton, Athens, Croydon, Oxford and Rennes, on each occasion being reconfigured into a new form. The most ambitious of these being at Detritus Festival in 2018, where a new and larger version of the work was constructed at the Onassis Cultural Centre from used computer sourced in the city. The work was sadly lost in transit between France and the UK, returning to the global trade in e-waste which its production initially sought to intervene in, so all that remains are these recordings. 

The CD is released in an edition of 150 in an oversized 7" sleeve accompanied by a 16 page risographed booklet featuring photographs and scans of the sculpture, essays by Danae Stefano and Stephen Cornford, and a letterpressed backpanel.

Stephen Cornford - Constant Linear Velocity [excerpt]

Piece for prepared solo piano written as a tribute to John Cage, in 2012
The idea was to describe an imaginary sculpture, a big mechanical mobile and its movements. Musical automaton.

Michelle Agnes, piano


Recording and mix Ulrich Schneider

Mobile for solo piano (2013)

Extension (for solo cello), performed by Amy Jolly

Composer, pianist, Co-Director of Wet Ink Ensemble (NYC)

BREAD [2021], from "interbeing" (w/ score)

Eric Wubbels

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