Schallfeld Ensemble and Pierre-André Valade at Klangspuren Festival in Schwaz, Austria

(For Matt Butler, with thanks to the Nuckolls Family)

https://joshuamastel.com/Birds-fly/

Birds Fly

Treatise (1967) by Cornelius Cardew.
Performed live on December 3rd, 2011 at Atelier MusikFabrik in Cologne (Germany). 
Pages 45 to 70, 75 to 88, 136 to 139.

ensemble]h[iatus : Tiziana Bertoncini, Isabelle Duthoit, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Géraldine Keller, Lê Quan Ninh, Thomas Lehn, Thierry Madiot

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Treatise (1967) by Cornelius Cardew

Recorded during the Luxembourg Rainy Days Festival 2023 and performed by United Instruments of Lucilin at neimënster.
Recorded by Tritone Studios.

...here was one

The “Iridescent schemes” was written between May to July 2023, inspired by the ways our perception on different things shifts endlessly - under the influence of every new “slant of light” (Emily Dickenson). The title of the piece derives from the phenomenon of goniochromism (from the Greek: gonia, meaning angle and chroma, meaning color) when certain surfaces appear to gradually change color as the angle of view or the angle of illumination changes.

The piece was commissioned by Georges Aperghis and is dedicated to him and the Schallfeld ensemble. 

performed by Schallfeld Ensemble 
conductor: Pierre-André Valade
live recording, September 18, 2023, Schwaz, Austria
recorded by ORF Austrian Public Radio

painting:
Hubert Scheibl, "Seeds of Time"

Iridescent Schemes - Schallfeld Ensemble

二号子宫研究 (2023)
for tenor saxophone, violoncello, and live electronics

Antonin Bourgault, tenor saxophone
Audréanne Filion, violoncello

Studio recording (stereo downmix)

Cover picture © Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Studies for the Second Womb

for 12 musicians
Commission of Ensemble Éclat
Live recording of the World Premiere (26/01/2024), performed by Ensemble Éclat, conducted by Charles-Eric Fontaine
I - L'attente
II - Le jeu
III - Les noces

Au Bord De La Nuit (11/2023)

written for and premiered by line upon line (Matt Teodori, Adam Bell, Cullen Faulk). live performance from Austin, TX, January 12, 2024.

dreamt in lock-groove waves (live) // line upon line // 2024

I've already posted a downloadable excerpt from this recording, which is of the only performance so far of this piece (in February 2005, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadaaki Otaka). Here it is in its entirety. I hope I won't get into trouble for posting it but how else is anyone going to hear this music? which was presumably the idea behind commissioning and performing it...

NO (2004) for orchestra

I hold the Kunst-Universität in Graz responsible for my state.

This raw recording is of me reading the introduction of my testimony - the rest is here: https://nersessyon.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/a-testimony-of-institutional-abuse-in-austria/

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A Testimony of Institutional Abuse in Austria (read introduction)

Tropical Deception

Piano I: Paul Çelebi
Piano II: Olivier Rabu

"Neige" d'Anne Hebert: http://www.barapoemes.net/archives/2016/09/07/34290920.html

Program Note:
Cent traces, sur de vastes plaines was inspired by Anne Hébert's poem "Neige" (snow). Submerged in its poetic image, the music follows its emotional trajectory and attempts to embody it through a language of resonance, harmony, and temporalities. The work was also peripherally influenced by the novel "Kamouraska" by the same author. Both texts depict a wintery dream-scape that devolves into a fever dream peopled with hazy memories. The opening five minutes contain three musical dreams composed using a collection of altered paraphrases from other piano pieces 'about' snow. These quotations appear the way characters in these dreams do: one might have an idea of who they represent from daily life (memory) even if for some reason they do not fully resemble that person. Over the course of the piece the boundaries between dreams erode and the recurring characters' identities become increasingly distorted. Musical memories appear, disappear and intermingle, culminating in a blurred mass and then a rupture.

Commissioned by the Luba Zuk Piano Duo Composition Competition.
Performed November 11th, 2019, Tanna Schulich Hall, McGill.
Composed January-May 2019 (Montreal/Baltimore).

Note de Programme:
Cent traces, sur de vastes plaines est inspiré du poème "Neige" d'Anne Hébert. Submergée dans son image poétique, la musique suit sa trajectoire émotionnelle et tente de l'incarner dans un langage de résonances, d'harmonies, et de temporalités. L'oeuvre a aussi été influencée par le roman "Kamouraska" de la même écrivaine. Les deux textes décrivent des rêves hivernaux qui s'écroulent et deviennent des rêves fiévreux éveillant d'ambigus souvenirs. Les cinq premières minutes contiennent trois rêves musicaux, chacun composés d'une citation altérées d'autres pièces pour piano 'au sujet de' la neige. Ces citations incarnent la façon dont ces personnages habitent ces rêves: on sait qui ils représentent dans notre vraie vie même s'ils ne se ressemblent pas exactement. Au fur et à mesure les frontières séparant ces rêves se déconstruisent et les identités de ces personnages se tordent. Les souvenirs musicaux apparaissent, disparaissent et se mélangent, menant à une masse nuageuse puis une rupture.

Pièce commandée par le concours de composition pour duo de piano Luba Zuk. 
Interprétée le 11 Novembre 2019, Salle Tanna Schulich, McGill. 
Composée janvier-mai 2019 (Montréal/Baltimore).

Cent traces, sur de vastes plaines (2019)

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