Name: what's inside the cold (2023) by Francisco Corthey
Duration: 8 min 15 s
Description: Recorded by the Arditti Quartet during June in Buffalo festival 2023.

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, for ensemble (2020)

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

Mecanismos - for string quartet

Recorded by the Arditti Quartet during June in Buffalo festival 2023.

what's inside the cold (2023)

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

what's inside the cold (2023)

Francisco Corthey

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