Anatomical Venus (2017) is an oldie but goodie! This piece was my first official commission ever and the first piece I got my first NY premiere. I'm so ever grateful to Thea and Leia for thinking of me. This piece is an oldie but goodie, and I'm glad I finally got a decent recording of this piece. My last acoustic work for now!

For bass flute and cello

Performers, 

Leia Slosberg, bass flute
Thea Mesirow, cello

Recorded by DM R at the Columbia's Computer Music Center Studio
Mixed by DM R
Mastered by Murat Colak

A big thanks to Columbia Composers for supporting this project – a huge hug to Anna-Louise Walton and Camila Agosto

Anatomical Venus

The Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN), founded in 1980 in La Paz, Bolivia, the same year as the Basel Sinfonietta, plays traditional Bolivian instruments but exclusively contemporary music. As part of CULTURESCAPES 2021 Amazonas, Basel Sinfonietta has developped  a joint concert project with the chamber ensemble of the OEIN, which consists of seven soloists. The program includes the world premieres of specially commissioned works by Swiss composer Martin Jaggi (*1978) and Bolivian composer Carlos Gutiérrez (*1982), as well as Swiss premieres by Gabriela Ortiz and James Diaz (*1990, Colombia). An intercontinental concert project of Basel Sinfonietta at the interface between tradition and innovation with sound researchers from the Andes and composers from South America and Switzerland.

Program:
— James Diaz «Behind a wall of illusions» (2019, Swiss premiere)
— Cergio Prudencio «Sawuta saltanakani» (2003)
— Gabriela Ortiz: Téenek (Invenciones de Territorio) (2017, Swiss premiere)
— Julián Quintero «For Morton Feldman» (2017)
— Alejandro Cardona «Rítmicas Paceñas» (2012)
— Martin Jaggi «Tarr» (2021, world premiere)
— Carlos Gutiérrez Quiroga «Yllu» (2021, world premiere)

Acoustic Research from the Andes

Commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for the Flux quartet
marcoadrianramos.com

Barro tejido para la muerte de Mario Lavista o Cuarteto II (2022)

Procession Fragments (2020) | Mvt. 6 - Torso
Written by Peter Kramer for Pala Garcia

To be featured on an album for release on New Focus Recordings in Fall 2023.

Artists: 
Pala Garcia, violin
Peter Kramer, piano
Chris Kincaid, audio engineer

Procession Fragments: 6. Torso

High-quality downloads and CD of the studio recording is available at
https://dalniente.bandcamp.com/album/object-animal

SWAN (2016-17)

a - Korridor/Karaoke Mahshar - 00’00’’-19’42’’

b - Rod Modell - 19’43’’-28’49’’

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Recording of the premiere performance at the Constellation Chicago, 02/19/2017.

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Murat Çolak - Score & Electronics

Ensemble Dal Niente - Amplified Instruments:
Michael Lewanski - Conductor
Emma Hospelhorn - Flute, cymbals
Anna Velzo - Oboe
Katie Schoepflin - Clarinets
Gregory Beyer - Percussion
Mabel Kwan - Piano, bass synthesizer, percussion
Tara Lynn Ramsey - Violin
Chris Wild - Cello

Dan Tramte - Video (Excerpts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO5EQIlIf24 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG70iw4TSFU )
Nolan Chin - Live Sound
David Zuchowski - Recording

Live recording mixed & mastered by Murat Çolak

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Video of the premiere performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwNBIJ2KKLE&feature=share

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Interview with Emma Hospelhorn: http://www.dalniente.com/news/2017/3/26/interview-murat-olaks-swan

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Thanks: Ben Melsky, Grace Heatherington Tilka, Constellation Chicago, Frequency Series.

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SWAN is commissioned by NewMusicUSA

SWAN

"a song for..." was written for and in collaboration with violinist Julia Suh. 
Performed in Bossi-Comelly Hall, MSM.
April 25, 2018.
Recording: New York, Dec. 2020

"A song for..." for amplified violin and electronics [2018]

‘Education in Remembering’ is inspired by sculptor D.R.Piqtoukun’s definition of his own artistic experience and life. As a child, Piqtoukun was sent to a boarding school where he was not allowed to speak his mother tongue. He calls this as ‘education in forgetting’. Later, he learns stone carving from his brother, and describes this as ‘ education in remembering’. 

Piqtoukun’s words , in a more personal level, made me think/question ‘what I forgot’ and ‘ how to find ways to remember’. This 9 minutes 52 seconds 'incomplete' piece is my own ‘education in remembering’, based on dozens of double bass samples and their timbral transformation.

Education in Remembering

Deambulante - Desdibujada – Sosegada
¿Qué hago en música? A veces la verdad no se…. Pero creo y me imagino que estoy buscando un espacio donde mis preocupaciones con el rock en español, el reggaeton, la cumbia colombiana, la salsa, la música contemporánea, y el joropo sean uno y no sean nada. No sé, yo me imagino, por ejemplo, que por una milésima de segundo mi música suene como Cerati pero el contexto “post-quasi-espectral” desubique esta idea del sonido Soda Stereo y sea otra cosa totalmente distinta. En mi cabeza, toda la música que disfruto no puede y no debe tener jerarquías. Rihanna, Boulez, Totó la Momposina y Todos Tus Muertos son iguales y punto. Si me trago las jerarquías que las instituciones me imponen, mi música se jode. – DM RActualmente Diana es una estudiante de doctorado en la Universidad de Columbia. Y ella realizó estudios de maestría en el Boston Conservatory y pregrado en New World School of the Arts de la Universidad de Florida. Sus proyectos actuales incluyen colaboraciones con los ensambles TAK, Oasi Trio, y Alejandro Guardia.

Dialogo Sonoro - Episodio 3. Diana Marcerla Rodriguez

Lyrics

Loving you's just getting harder and harder to do
Cause my head says no but my phone keeps calling you

And you never pick up unless you’ve got nothing to do
But you say that you want me
Much as I want you

Over and over
Like it's Red rover
Will your games ever be through

Play me over and over
Pacman and lover
Hoping you run out of quarters soon

Don't hurt me
Leave me
No I don't mean that
Love me all the way to death

Oh it's killing me how
Fear is holding me down
But I wanna hold you

Oh I might burn to the ground
But see me burn with a smile
If I die it's with you


Written by: eaJ
Arranged by: 220, Jango
Mixed by : 220
Mastered by: Nam Woo Kwon
Digital Editing: Jango

Pacman

While Airborne, I Feel Alive (2020)
Tyler Neidermayer, clarinets and electronics
Recorded in Brooklyn, NY

While Airborne, I Feel Alive

'We no longer sleep in the wind', for solo Paetzold double bass recorder (2020), written very especially for Sylvia Hinz.

Recording of the premiere, February 13th, 2021.
Performed by Sylvia Hinz.

About the piece: https://micheleabondano.com/2020/03/24/we-no-longer-sleep-in-the-wind/

Photography of Sylvia Hinz at the CTM hacklab finale 2020.

We no longer sleep in the wind (2020) | Michele Abondano

more music now on my Bandcamp:
https://jamesdiaz.bandcamp.com/
Colombian Composer
www.jamesdiaz.co

"A song for..." for amplified violin and electronics [2018]

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