This work combined recording of acoustic instruments (violoncello and violin), synthesizer outputs and environmental sounds. My approach here is very close to anecdotal music: the sound sources became unimportant; they are merged together in a new context musically. The sounds left their original environments and meet in an unknown space.

Departure

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composer - Batya Frenklakh
Fireball is inspired by Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The 1st gesture of the 3rd movement is a broken chord that rolls upwards and explodes into two sharp blocks of sound. This energy left me with an impression of a fireball.
The first part of the piece explores the image I had in mind on two levels. At the first level, a small fireball repeatedly soars into the sky and explodes, each time with increased energy. At the second level, all these repetitions form a single journey of one huge fireball. Its explosion leads us into the second part of the piece - a rave of fireworks. In the third part, a new and different power takes over – is it the moonlight?
Designed for Janus Ensemble, Fireball deals with restrained improvisation, patience, colors and energy.
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Fireball (2020), Janus Ensemble

Court-circuit Ensemble

Jean Deroyer (Conductor)
Anne-Cécile Cuniot (Flute)
Pierre Dutrieu (Clarinet)
Jean-Marie Cottet (Piano)
Alexandra Greffin Klein (Violin)
Julien Decoin (Cello)

Christopher Jacobs (Audio engineer)
SUNY University at Buffalo, Oct. 27, 2022

Variations on a late arrival (2022)

Mecanismos - premiered during the 2023 Distat Terra Festival
Quartetto Maurice
Sound recording: Pablo Boltshauser

Mecanismos - for string quartet

Nuées d'encre - Concertino pour grand ensemble harpe et piano préparés

F-Plus reading session
Composed: September 2019

Karoshi: excess · work · death

"Chronicles of the after bomb" is part of a cycle that works on the ruins, the remains of the instruments, as after a detonation.

Instrumentation: Double trio, electronics and lights:

Voice: Elina Viluma
Performer 1: Lorenzo Derinni
Performer 2: Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Clarinet: Szilard Benez
Cello: Myriam Garcia Fidalgo
Piano: Patrik Skrilecz
Regie: Davide Gagliardi

Performance:
Elina Viluma and Schallfeld ensemble, October 2019, Theater am Lend

Variations on a late arrival (2022)

Francisco Corthey

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