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objects and other things
music video by alex kaniewski: https://youtu.be/5kZio3vsHo8

too many drams not enough time

Example of my video game scoring.

www.decovgm.com

Chiptune Theme (Video Game Scoring)

FRANCISCO C. GOLDSCHMIDT
Muros (2018/19)
for amplified sextet and electronics
(flute, clarinet in b, violin, viola, cello, piano and tape)

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KOMMAS ENSEMBLE
Maruta Staravoitava, flute
Moritz Schneidewendt, clarinet
Johannes Haase, violin
Alba González Becerra, viola
Kyubin Hwang, cello
Alberto Carnevale Ricci, piano
Lautaro Mura, conductor
Maximiliano Estudies, sound director

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Live Recoding
WERFT Cologne Ensemble Festival
Alte Feuerwache Köln, November 30, 2019

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBEdYAhHhTI

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Composition commission by Ensamble Contemporáneo UC
funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

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photo: valparaíso's prison, chile, 2018

Muros / for amplified sextet and electronics

FRANCISCO C. GOLDSCHMIDT
no voice (2019)
for amplified bass flute solo

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لا صوتَ لي ولا أغاني
خلعت صوتي على وطن الرياح والشجر
الظلال أكثر تعانقا من الأهداب
وما من أغنيةٍ تضيء ظلماتِ الأعماق
لكن الأصداءَ تدقُّ صدر الليل
فأنام في صدري

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Ich habe keine Stimme und keine Lieder
Meine Stimme ist ausgezogen in das Land der Winde und der Bäume
Die Schatten sind dichter als Wimpern
Und es ist kein Lied, das die Finsternisse der Tiefen erhellt
Doch sein Echo schlägt im Busen der Nacht
Und ich schlafe ein auf meiner Brust

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no tengo voz ni cantos
mi voz se ha movido a la tierra de los vientos y los árboles
las sombras son más densas que las pestañas
y no hay canción que ilumine la oscuridad de lo profundo
pero su eco late en el seno de la noche
y me duermo en mi pecho

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I have no voice and no songs
my voice has moved to the land of winds and trees
the shadows are denser than eyelashes
and there is no song that illuminates the darkness of the deep
but his echo beats in the bosom of the night
and I fall asleep on my chest

Saniya Sáleh (Syria, 1935-1985)

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»no voice« was a composition commission by flutist Daniel Agi 
funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

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Performances:

February 12, 2022
Daniel Agi, bass flute / Lea Letzel, light installation 
Kulturverein Klassik Königswinter 

July 20, 2021, 20h
Daniel Agi, bass flute / Lea Letzel, light installation 
MusikZentrum Hannover

November 17, 2020, 20h
Musikzentrum Hannover
Daniel Agi, bass flute / Lea Letzel, light installation 
https://musik21niedersachsen.de/veranstaltung/musik21/sog

Februar 11, 2020, 20h 
Unerhörte Musik , BKA Theater, Berlin
Daniel Agi, bass flute / Lea Letzel, light installation
https://www.bka-theater.de/content_start.php?id=100

November 30, 2019 –Premiere
WERFT Festival Cologne , Alte Feuerwache Köln
Daniel Agi, bass flute / Lea Letzel, light installation
http://www.daniel-agi.de/en/sog/

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Recorded at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, 19.02.2020. 
Daniel Agi, bass flute 
Score: http://www.daniel-agi.de/daWP15/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SOG-Notensammlung-Web-191217.pdf

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no voice / for amplified bass flute

Hybrids

Polar Station

Transcendental

Escape, via River

Forever Held Up

My artist-friend Christophe Rodiac took that picture which inspired me at first sight, envisioning sound-objects splattering all over... Et voila !

Philippe Petit - Splash Sonic Disruption

20210109

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Upcoming:

«desobediencia del enjambre» (2026)
 –disobedience of the swarm– 
World Premiere: Cologne, Alte Feuerwache
November 2026, Kommas Ensemble
Double Concerto for piano, percussion
and 12 instruments (fl, ob, cl, sax, fg, trp, hrp, 2 vln, vla, vc, db and electronics, 30 min.)
Commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

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Francisco C. Goldschmidt studied composition with Cirilo Vila and Aliocha Solovera at the University of Chile, as well as a Masters in the Theory and History of Art with the philosopher Dr. Sergio Rojas at the same University. He received a scholarship from the National Board of Chile for Culture and Art to study a Masters of Music and a Konzertexamen in Instrumental Composition under Johannes Schöllhorn at the Cologne University of Music.

Goldschmidt‘s work reveals a particular fascination for solo and chamber music in a reduced format. Internal polyphony of individual voices, the use of resonances and the intense interweaving of hidden chants are characteristic of his work. Sudden changes of temperament and tempo lead to a divergent and ambivalent music, always marked by fragility. The question of permanent bifurcation, lack of identity, isolation, disorientation and labyrinth are themes that run through his work. Furthermore, work with amplification and spatialization of sound and interdisciplinary collaboration with the video artist Nicolás Rupcich (*1981) are an essential part of his artistic project.

Goldschmidt’s music has been performed by various ensembles, such as the mdi ensemble (Italy), MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik, Fukio Ensemble, hand werk, IEMA Ensemble, Cologne Guitar Quartet, Trio Estatico, Das Neue Ensemble Hannover, L'art pour l'art,  Kommas Ensemble, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Ensemble Recherche (all Germany), Spóldzielnia Muzyczna (Poland), Ensemble Lucilin (Luxembourg), Colectivo Azul, Ensamble Contemporáneo UC (Chile), TimeArt Studio (Taiwan), Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo (Japan), Vertixe Sonora Ensemble (Spain) and Friends of Mata (New York). Moreover, his orchestral works have been selected by the Chamber Orchestra of Chile, the USACH Classical Orchestra of Santiago, the HfMT Orchester of Cologne, SWR Sinfonieorchester of Stuttgart and the Gürzenich-Orchester of Cologne.

In addition, his music has been performed at several festivals, including the UC Festival in Santiago de Chile, Concerts-Lab in Tokyo, Ciclo-Cervantes in Buenos Aires, MATA Festival in New York, Ensems in Valencia, WERFT and Acht Brücken in Cologne.

He have received diverse awards, such as the finalist at the «Luis Advis 2007» competition, the support of CNCA of Chile in 2013/2016, the «RheinSilver Award 2014» in the framework of the New Talents Biennial of Cologne, the Second Prize at the Berlin's «Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Award 2014», the Cologne's «Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship» in 2016 and the support for five comissions by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2018/2019/2020/2023/2025). In 2019 he was artist in residence at the Artists' Village Schöppingen and was awarded at the «Young Composers' Forum 2020» of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts of Munich.

Francisco C. Goldschmidt lives and works in Cologne since 2011 as both a freelance composer and the artistic director of the Kommas Ensemble.

In 2025, he served as composer-in-residence for five months at the Bartels Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, and for three months at the Atelier Galata in Istanbul, Turkey, supported by the Art Foundation NRW.

In 2026 will be released the audiovisual record of his instrumental monodrama «ELOY -music with images of isolation»; one hundred minutes of instrumental music that he has been composing since 2012 to date, as a work in progress, based on the homonymous novel by writer Carlos Droguett. 

A Portrait–CD featuring his most recent works is also scheduled to appear in 2028 as part of the «Edition Zeitgenössische Musik Podium Gegenwart» series released by WERGO.

no voice / for amplified bass flute

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