SPOILS, a concert-length work for Baroque chamber ensemble, interactive electronics, surround sound and video. Premiered 8 April 2016, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, as part of Music Current 2016, festival of new music. Performers: Aoife Ni Dhornain (Baroque violin), Marja Gaynor (Baroque violin), Ilse de Ziah (Baroque cello), Michael Quinn (harpsichord), Olwen Fouéré (recorded voice), Fergal Dowling (computer), Mihai Cucu (video).

Spoils

Spoils V, Grounds

Spoils V - Grounds

Aisha Orazbayeva violin
Mark Knoop piano
Live from St Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield

Bryn Harrison Receiving the Approaching Memory movement 1

Phora (i) for flute and electronics. Written 2014, electronics revised 2016.
Performed by Carin Levine at SARC November 2016.

Phora (i)(2014 / 2016)

Aisha Orazbayeva: Telemann Fantasias

Telemann Fantasie no 9 in B minor

I. every deduction involves the observation of a diagram

Fortuitous Variations Edit 2

Fortuitous Variations:  I. every deduction involves the observation of a diagram

Recorded at Gagosian Gallery inside Richard Serra's exhibition

recorded by Peiman Khosravi
photo by Fabio Lugaro

March 2017

Iannis Xenakis - Mikka S

Two4 by John Cage performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and Naomi Sato
Recorded and Mixed by Peiman Khosravi
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John Cage Two4(performed by Aisha Orazbayeva and Naomi Sato) - 96khz full

Las aguas abismales 
(The abysmal waters)

This piece is based on the Toba theogony.   The voice of the sorceress tells the origins of the world. From the musical point of view is a sort of acquainted recitative. The composition of the piece serves itself of the recognition and the loss of recognition of the voice, as two opposed parameters. The public may recognize a good number of traditional instruments (some flutes, quenas, bombos, cañas, etc.) transformed afterwards by classical studio procedures (filters, shuffling, changes of velocity, etc.) The piece is a sort of suite, whose last episode remembers the magic fluid of water. There, at the bottom of the abysmal water, the wizard’s apprentice fights against terrible demons and defeat them.
The piece was created in the Studio du Nord of the University of Lille 3 in France in 2008 and obtained the first prize at the 2009 Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music.

Las Aguas Abismales - 2008

Performed by Sylvia O'Brien (Soprano) Bill Dowdall (Flutes)
Keith Pascoe (Violin) Alex Petru (Percussion) Isabelle O' Connell (Piano)@ The National Gallery of Dublin. )Oct 18th 2018
Text by Aloys Bertrand
Ondine
 (Aloysius Bertrand 1842)

 Écoute! — Écoute!
C’est moi, c’est Ondine 
qui frôle de ces gouttes d’eau les losanges sonores
 de ta fenêtre illumine
 par les mornes rayons de la lune;
 et voici, en robe de moire, 
la dame châtelaine qui contemple à son balcon
 la belle nuit étoilée et le beau lac endormi.

 Chaque flot est un ondin qui nage dans le courant, 
chaque courant est un sentier qui serpente vers mon palais,
 et mon palais est bâti fluide, 
au fond du lac, dans le triangle du feu, de la terre et de l’air.

 Écoute!  Écoute! 
 Mon père bat l’eau coassante d’une branche d’aulne verte,
 et mes sœurs caressent de leurs bras d’écume les fraîches îles d’herbes,
 de nénuphars et de glaïeuls,
 ou se moquent du saule caduc et barbu qui pêche à la ligne.
Sa chanson murmurée,
 elle me supplia de recevoir son anneau à mon doigt, 
pour être l’époux d’une Ondine, et de visiter avec elle son palais, pour être le roi des lacs.

Et comme je lui répondais que j’aimais une mortelle, boudeuse et dépitée,
 elle pleura quelques larmes,
 poussa un éclat de rire,
 et s’évanouit en giboulées qui ruisselèrent blanches le long de mes vitraux bleus.

 “Listen! Listen! Do you know what you hear?
It is I, Ondine, spirit of the water,
who brushes these drops,
The water on the resonant panes of your windows,
lit by the gloomy rays of the moon.
And here, in a gown of watered silk,
gazing from my chateau terrace,
I contemplate the beautiful starry night
and the restless sleeping lake.
“The waves are my sisters, swimming the paths
which wander towards my palace…
The walls are at the bottom of the lake,
in a fluid structure of earth and fire and air.
“Listen! Listen! Do you know what you hear?
My father strikes the water with an alder branch,
My sisters caress the grass with arms of white foam,
lift the water lilies, move the rushes,
and tease the bearded willow which casts its line,
baited with leaves, into the darting water.”
When she had breathed her song, she begged me –
begged me – to put her ring on my finger;
to be her husband and sink with her down –
down to her drowned palace
and be king of all the lakes.
I told her I loved a mortal woman.
Abashed and vexed, she dissolved into tears and laughter;
vanished in a scatter of rain –
white streams across the dark night
of my window.

Ondine

This short work is like a small album of micro pieces, where each tiny piece like a swatch of fabric representing one type of material, or one type of behavior, like a small repeating pattern in a potentially larger form. Together these short pieces form a condensed catalogue of interactive examples – musical fabrics which list basic relationships between live and electronics parts – parallel and sequential actions, interruptions, background washes, foreground answers, and anticipations.

Mixes Sythetic Fabrics was commissioned by Xenia Pestova with funds from the Arts Council Music Commission Award.

Recorded at Music Current Festival, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 14 April 2017, Xenia Pestova, piano; Fergal Dowling, computer.

Mixed Synthetic Fabrics (for piano and computer), excerpt

part of OGIERMANN-PALMTAGs second LP, released in may 2019...music: ogiermann_palmtag .text: ogiermann, brass: thanx to LAUTER BLECH

Spoils V - Grounds

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