Viola da Gamba

The inspiration for this composition was a pilgrimage along the Camino Francés to Santiago de Compostella, which I undertook in autumn 2010. The composition reflects my experience from Cape Fisterra, a region also called The World’s End (finis terrrae) in west Galicia in Spain. This experience, in the context of many personal events, was in some ways the climax of the whole journey.

The request from the Berg Orchestra came, coincidentally, a week before my Fisterra experience. I was refreshing myself at the Burbia river in Villafranca del Bierzo. At that moment, the mobile phone was to me a very distant thing!

[Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.]
[Gen 28:16]

http://www.berg.cz

Dinner at the End of the World

Incantation for tenor viola da gamba and electronics

Viola da gamba: Steuart Pincombe
Performed LIVE in Fairchild Chapel, Oberlin Conservatory 2010.

NOTE: I apologise for the incessant camera clicking...the reporter there was a bit too enthusiastic the entire time but this movement has less of it... 

Sonata V In E Minor For Viola Da Gamba, Mvt. 1

Traditional Melody Saqi Nameh. Melody notated by Reza Abaee, final work improvised by the performer. Recorded at the Banff Centre by Murat Colak.

Saqi Nameh at the Banff Centre

Saqi Nameh (Take 06) Master

Traditional Melody Saqi Nameh. Melody notated by Reza Abaee, final work improvised and performed by Alexis Emelianoff. Recorded at the Banff Centre by Murat Colak in May 2025.

a part from the performance "~hrajeM NEhrajou"
for writing machine microtonal guitar & live-electronic

guitar: Ivan Bores
writing machine, live-electronic: Jan Trojan

~hrajeM NEhrajou

OLD PHOTOS
for symphony orchestra
the Fifth movement

con. Jan Krejčík
The Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra
premiere 20. 6. 2009
The Rudolfinum Prague

Old Photos - 5th movement

The recording was taken in March 2015 in gallery Skolska 28. Link to the original event: http://skolska28.cz/node/3377

Viola da gamba: Eva Nachmilnerová
Metal Sheet Nr. 1: Jan Trojan

Metal Sheet & Viola da gamba :: performance

Title Music for the ten-part radio fiction "Pedro Paramo" on Radio France! Starting June 2012

Francoise Daudin-Clavaud, Flute
Arnaud Dumond, Guitar
Florent Jodelet, Percussion
Sebastien Surel, Violin
Philippe Foulon, Viola da Gamba

Bolero - for Flute, Guitar, Perc.,Violin and Viola da Gamba

COUNTERPOINT on the original harp solo Just Passing By 

viola da gamba recording  = www.ernststolz.com
harp recording = ANNE = www.harpandsoul.com
mix = THIJS =  www.teejay.nl

viola da gamba/harp

Rehearsal for the premiere in March, 2013 at the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam. Ere Lievonen, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Mikko Perkola, viola da gamba.

The introductory fanfare uses a 9-note scale (3+4+3+4+3+4+3+4+3=31 steps) in the so called Orwell temperament. The toccata is in extended meantone, making much use of septimal and neutral intervals, 1/5-tones, as well as commas that 31EDO tempers out, such as 176/175.

The viola da gamba is tuned as follows: The 7 strings are tuned to the standard A1-D-G-c-e-a-d1 (with meantone fourths). The seven frets are placed so that the pitches on the A strings are as follows: (A) Bb B C C# Cx D# E (= 3-2-3-2-2-3-3 steps of 31), enabling 21 pitches out of 31.

Metal Sheet & Viola da gamba :: performance

3JAN

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