FRANCISCO C. GOLDSCHMIDT
...pedazos de rostros... 
(2014/rev. 2017) for six instruments 
(alto flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, gran cassa & piano) 

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KOMMAS ENSEMBLE

Christian Vásquez Miranda, alto flute
Hugo Queirós, bass clarinet 
Gustavo Vergara, violin
Bernhard Rath, cello
Ramón Gardella, percussion
Claudia Chan, piano
Francisco C. Goldschmidt, conductor

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Live Recording 
Maximiliano Estudies, Sound Director
November 10, 2017 / Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

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The title is based on the novel "Eloy" by Carlos Droguett.

Titel translation (english/german/french): 
...shards of faces...
...Scherben von Gesichtern...
...morceaux de visages...

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Upcoming performances:

*2019 / Sound of Wander Festival / Mailand, Italy
MDI Ensemble

*November 10, 2017 / Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
Kommas Ensemble

*August 02, 2017 / Oviedo´s Contemporary Music Festival, Spain 
Ensemble MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik

*September 14, 2016 / Centre Culturel Neimënster, Luxembourg
United Instruments of Lucilin

*Mai 23, 2014 / New Talents – Biennale Cologne 2014, Premiere
Ensemble MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik

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This piece was commissioned for the » new talents - biennale cologne « with the support of the Culture Department of the city of Cologne and was awarded with the RheinSilver Award 2014.
http://www.2014.newtalents-cologne.de/programm2014/rheinsilber/

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Nicolás Rupcich, Photo, Untitled, 2017

...pedazos de rostros... / for six instruments

Dr Marcos Stuardo is a Chilean/British composer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He obtained his 'Licenciatura en Composición' (Bachelor in Composition) with the Highest Distinction at Universidad de Chile under the tutelage of Professor Andrés Maupoint. He received his PhD in music at King's College London under the supervision of Prof Silvina Milstein.
Follow him on Twitter: @MarcosStuardito
Send an email: marcos.stuardo@post.cz

Born in N. Pazar (Yugoslavia) in 1981, Mersid formerly lived in Sarajevo and now lives in western Sweden. 
He's a composer, media artist and researcher with a focus on electroacoustic music and acousmatic composition, as well as practices in phonography, sound art and improvisation, among other interdisciplinary areas.
Having studied composition and performance throughout Europe, he's consistently performed and worked in a multimedia environment and has inquired into the intangible paths of liminal auditory.
Focusing on sound as his main research tool, Mersid navigates the fluctuating materialities of his artistic practice in light of its key concerns: post-nature, transtexting, obsolescence, processes of deskilling, concepts of ear-witnessing, environmental issues, states of migration.

mostly: 
pianist with a wandering eye

sometimes:
multi-purpose cellist, 
backing vocals singer,
live coder.


Fabia posts snippets from her practice, work, research and archives on this account.
bio: http://fabiabertram.com/vita/

Immigrant, nomad, traveller and sleepwalker. I make music too.

"If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worthwhile." - Tom Lehrer

Gareth Wood is an independent and self-produced multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer from Manchester, England. His debut album 'Juvenilia' was released on August 21, 2017. Gareth's second album 'Low Key' was released on July 20, 2018. His third album 'Rites of Passage' was released April 17, 2020. Gareth released a fourth album of instrumentals entitled 'Sweet Nothings' exclusively on YouTube on December 27th, 2022. On April 2nd 2024, a fifth album was released by Gareth called 'Exposure Therapy'. All albums can be found in full on both Bandcamp and YouTube. 

All songs written, performed and produced by Gareth Wood.

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upcoming:

ELOY (DVD). In 2025 will be released the audiovisual record of the instrumental monodrama «ELOY -music with images of isolation»; (work in progress 2013–2022, 100 min.) for 9 amplified instruments, video & voice based on the homonymous novel by the chilean writer Carlos Droguett.

«PALINGENESIS» (2024) -premiere: Cologne, 08.06.2024- for three amplified violas, electronics & sound installation (50 min.), commissioned by the City of Cologne and TRIO ESTATICO.

«cantos póstumos» –after Lola Kiepja
for amplified violin and video (7 min.)
world premiere: Alte Feuerwache Cologne, 27.04.2024
Johannes Haase, violin / Nicolás Rupcich, Video 

«K'an –fueron deshojados» (2023) -premiere 08.09.2023- for percusission solist, bass flute, clarinet, viola, cello and 15 instruments (21'), commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the MUSICAHORA Festival. Premiere by Kommas Ensemble & La Serena's OSULS Chamber Orchestra of Chile.

«new work» (2026) -premiere: november 2026- for female voice, 2 bass flutes, 2 cellos, 2 pianos & percussion (25'), commissioned by Kommas Ensemble and BRuCH.

...pedazos de rostros... / for six instruments

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