Fifth track of my album based on Robert W Chambers book "The King in Yellow" (1895).

The King in Yellow

In the Court of the Dragon

Ordinary day

Johanna Vargas, soprano
Ensemble Linea
Carolina Santiago Martinez, piano
Keiko Murakami, flute contrebasse
Louis Siracusa, double bass
Jean-Philippe Würtz, conductor

IV. Gradual Abruptness
ooo –– ooo –– oo –– o 
gradual abruptness 
french 		(mr., rhythm acuto intros.) 
ital 		(riposante musica, ritmo meno acuto, adattabile)   
                 o                   –– 
non avete da mostrarmi un’altra macchina? (repeat rhythm) 

[…]

(– oooooooo – )

[…]

tu pensi:   
 –  o o  –  o o o  – o o o  –  o 
ha una macchina ancora da mostrarmi? 

Un poco di buon ordine feroce
Aspettare in tempo

	Évidemment

		si tu ne peux
Poétiser
	il te faudra
Cohabiter
Rime e accenti allineati
Évidemment 
Si tu ne peux
		analyser
Il te faudra
		coaliser
Io vado di solito a letto alle undici
o – o o – o o – oo – oo
La poésie du succès 
Le succès du sexu

Bisogna sfruttare i buoni momenti
o – oo – oo – oo – o
– o oo – o ooooo –

Autumn is a season of which I am very fond [about]

Regarde
Au moins
Ce qui est
Écrit
Sur le bout
De ta langue chérie
In nous faudra
Que tu y vas
(synthèse-douleur)
tu parles en prose  

V. Allons, plongeons
Allons, plongeons dans le réel (il le faut)
l’Esthétique Jaune dans son lit de Mort 
l’Esthétique Jeune dans son Lit Subtil
ou bien  
Nous sommes 
[dans son lit de la mort subtile
dans le lit de son jeune mort
dans la mort du lit du son
dans le son subtil de la jeune mort] 
 
(dans la gaze de la réalité). 
Nous passons dans la gaze du réel. 
Arrive l’enfer. L’impératif 
de la[…]
[…]réalité
(nous sommes en communication).

4. Gradual Abruptness 5. Allons, plongeon

Wooden Floor And Wood Bass

Drama Caused The Exit

Steps To Disappearing

Composed 2017, recorded July 2023

Bernhard Plagg - trumpet 1
Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet 2
Lionel Speciale - horn
Vladimir Vereś - trombone
Fabian Neckermann - tuba

Sound recording in the studio of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, 2023
Sound engineer: Benjamin Ostarek

Program Note
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) was created on the occasion of a composition competition for brass quintets announced by the publishing house Furore Verlag in 2017.
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to record the piece in a recording studio and to make it available to the public. The trumpeter Bernhard Plagg was kind enough to take on the project. He put together a brass quintet, organised rehearsal dates, etc.
The composition consists of two elements that alternate or interpenetrate each other. On the one hand, composed, notated music, harmonic and rhythmic in the broadest sense. And on the other, improvised music, mainly consisting of differentiated, nuanced noises and representing a kind of random music, like random sounds in nature.

Tagundnachtgleiche for brass quintet

Vertical lights on lost bodies [excerpt] | for string quartet

Written for and performed by Quartetto Maurice | www.quartettomaurice.com/it

Co-commission Festival Milano Musica and Festival Musica in prossimità

Live recording @ Fabbrica del Vapore, Mllan | May 26th 2023 | Festival Milano Musica

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Friction n° 20

«Mimma’amaqim» (Out of the depths)

Premiere: Stadtcasino Basel – Musiksaal, January 25, 2024
10th Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival Basel
Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO)
Basler Madrigalisten
Tito Ceccherini, conductor
Recorded by SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen)

This Psalm is a cry, a call out for help, for being heard by God.
It is often described as a canticle of gradual ascent (Shir Hama’a lot). This ascent could be understood as a rise from the abyss to redemption.
I believe this Psalm could resonate with many, even non-believers, as it shows a universal and tragic part of human life and human nature. That is the experience of grief, depression, abuse, solitude or simply being in a place so dark that leads to despair.
But it also sends a message of light, optimism, and hope, through the conviction that one will be heard.
Even inf it comes from the Hebrew tradition it shows universal values that can be embraced by many cultures and promote tolerance and acceptance. In fact, this psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.
In this sense, during the piece the text follows a chronological use and adaptation throughout the Judaism and the different versions of Christianism: Latin: 530, Rule of Saint Benedict; German: Martin Luther Hymns, 1524, al and eventually the English: King James Version from 1610

Miamma'amaqim

Etude IV, Andantino amabile (Édouard Sabon, 1817-1893)
Original for oboe or sax after harp works by Nicholas Charles Bochsa, 1789-1856
Adapted for blockflute
Live recording / Fred Morgan voice flute a: 415

Romantic étude • Édouard Sabon (after Nicholas Charles Bochsa)



Helga Arias Parra (born in Bilbao, Spain) studied composition with Mario Garuti (Conservatorio G.Verdi Milan) and Beat Furrer (Kunsuniversität Graz) and computer music with Javier Torres Maldonado (Conservatorio A. Boito Parma) and Karlheinz Essl (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien). 

Besides, she has received individual lessons from other composers such as Michael Jarrell, Kaija Saariaho, J.B. Barrière, Georg Friedrich Haas, Pierluigi Billone, Isabel Mundry, Mark André, Toshio Hosokawa or Alberto Posadas among others and participated in masterclasses with Helmuth Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Philippe Manoury, José María Sánchez Verdú, Trevor Wishart or Daniel Teruggi.


She has been awarded in the international contest “Città di Udine”, the  RCSM Victoria Eugenia de Granada contest for Symphonic Orchestra, the shut up and listen! Electroacustic festival in Vienna or the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Competition 2014.

Her music has been performed in several festivals and music halls such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage (Next Generation), Manifeste Paris, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, EMUFEST  Rome, Klangwerkstatt  Berlin, Festival Mixtur in Barcelona, Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, USA, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva (Mexico), Domaine Forget  (Canada), Casa del Suono in Parma (Italy), Etchings Festival (France), Echoraum Vienna, Experimentalstudio Academy of the SWR Freiburg, 3rd Forum for Young Composers in Cascais (Portugal), Sonutopias 2014 (Santiago de compostela, Spain or ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany) by ensembles such as Ensemble Inercontemporain, Ensemble SurPlus, International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA), Vertixe Sonora,  Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, ECCE ensemble, Taller Sonoro, Sond'arte electric ensemble, Ensemble Cepromusic, Ensemble Progress Berlin and others.

Currently she teaches in Switzerland.

Miamma'amaqim

Helga Arias

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