Cracks Between The Reflections

Michele Marelli, corno di bassetto solista
Divertimento Ensemble
Dir. Sandro Gorli

Dispositivo per la continuità

A recording of the premier performance by Caput Ensemble  in Harpa Concert Hall during Dark Music Days on January 29th 2016. 

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For double bass and electrically stimulated bass drums.
Dario Calderone double bass, 
Davide Ianni electronics.
Performed on 07/12/2016 at Composit New Music Festival

Beneath The Music From A Further Room is scored for solo double bass and 2 "singing" bass drums.   The piece is  really a solo for the double bass however , the sonic realm that the instrument creates ends up inhabiting 2 bass drums sitting on stage, which start to 'sing' taking over the soloist. This piece plays with the perceptual shifting that occurs from the breaking of the concert ritual. As the bass drums take over enveloping the hall with their sound, the listener is subtly transported into a different sonic reality and syntax which appears to be removed from the performer and  composer's control. This music now inhabits inanimate objects projected in space unaware of the circumstances that generated it. The concert ritual is slowly dissolved, and we are now left to engage with sounds without a specific paradigm.

Beneath The Music From A Further Room

Suzuki Baleno performed by TAK Ensemble.

Score: https://issuu.com/baragisladottir/docs/suzuki_baleno__a__n_sello____merged?e=23234531/30000297

Suzuki Baleno

From Snorri Hallgrímsson's debut album 'Orbit' (Out Now)

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Inexpressible v.2 (2013/2015)
written for and premiered by Ensemble Third Sound
Havana Festival for Contemporary Music
November 2015

Sooyun Kim, flute
Karen Kim, violin
Michael Nicolas, cello

In "Inexpressible," each voice is treated as a unique line, its activity independent from the other. In a way, this is a piece of music for three soloists played simultaneously. Whereas polyphonic music traditionally found the relation between voices in a shared "harmony," the musical lines in "Inexpressible" share two things: speed and energy. Harmony, though existent, is subsumed by velocity and athleticism, gesture and force.

The text, ghosted within the notes, is Ludwig Wittgenstein, words from his "Tractatus"about the impossibility of knowing.

"Inexpressible" was originally written for Ensemble Pamplemousse and premiered in New York City in April 2013. "Inexpressible v.2" was adapted for Ensemble Third Sound and premiered in November 2015 in Havana, Cuba.

Inexpressible v.2

Öndun performed by Cheng - Yu Wu

About the piece:

New music solo flute repertoire has become a kind of language. It has established a very distinct vocabulary that is a challenge
to steer away from. Sometimes the best way is to tackle the problems head on: don't question the language--speak it. Öndun is
looking at the solo performer from different perspectives, a gradual shift from being hyper present to becoming removed from
performance. If you look up the translation of the word öndun in an English/ Icelandic dictionary, the result is going to be
“breathing, respiration." However, in the Icelandic language is rich with lots of different colors and shades. Words can take on a
completely different meaning in a different context. Öndun is one of these words. For example, it can mean a short pause an old
meaning of the word is also “a beautiful death”, it is also derived from the word Andar, which means spirits or souls. Even the
artists constant search for inspiration is called “anda-gift”. The title came really late to this piece, but it was fitting in every color

Öndun

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Georg K. Hilmarsson (b.1982) graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2013 and proceeded his graduate studies at Mills College in California, working closely with renowned composers Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Roscoe Mitchell and John Bischoff. Georg graduated 2015 from Mills College with honors, were he was honored with the Paul Merrit Henry Prize for excellence in composition for stringed Instruments.

Georg’s pieces have been performed widely, Salisbury Arts Festival í England, Summer Dream Choir festival in Sweden, Center for Contemporary Music in San Francisco and the Berkley Art Museum. Georg’s pieces has span a variety of instrumentation and groups amongst those who have premiered his work are; Eclipse Quartet, Celli@Berkely, The Reykjavik Cathederal Choir and the South Iceland Chamber Choir.

Georg has been active in the Icelandic music scene as a bass player and songwriter, most notably with the band Sprengjuhollin. 


Öndun

Georg K. Hilmarsson

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