Saxophone: Jonathan Chazan
www.jonathanchazan.com

Recorded on 09/04/2022 in Konstanz (Germany)

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The words we use to describe the sounds we hear are misleading and insufficient, just as the terms we use to describe the colors that constitute our visual perception. Words limit what we hear/see. Words limit how we perceive that which we can actually hear/see.
When the “timbral” aspect of sound is not hastily approached through the bias of our verbal language, but through concrete knowledge of the actual physics of vision and of color, a new musical dimension can arise, discovering the microscopical dimension of miniscule gradations of acoustic energy that are perceived by us as “colors of sounds”.

In the piece [K] for tenor sax, I approached this musical dimension through a focus on the so-called “alternate fingerings” of the saxophone, seen as a means to unleash the enormously rich sonic potential of this instrument. A meticulous work of study and classification of the sound of different fingerings (both through spectral analysis, both through the study of the mechanics of the saxophone) allows the graphic representation of timbres through the colors used in the score, which represent the energetic characteristics of each sound. The hands of the player continuously manipulate sound; it is in fact a human hand that which was originally represented by the pictogram from which the letter K was derived.
This sonic dimension – which for many is seen as an initial stage, instrumental to something – is for me sufficient for composing music, without the need of recurring to other means. If composing is mostly about building the relations between materials, “colors of sounds” are the only materials I need.

Just like beauty, color is in the eye of the beholder.
And in its hands.

[K], for tenor saxophone (2021)

Millimetrim for soprano saxophone and electronics by Rachel Beja 2022
Premiered at Festival dei Giardini della Filarmonica, Rome 19/06/2022

Recorded at St.Jonhann monastery, Konstanz 19/08/2022
Saxophone soprano, Recording and mastering - Jonathan Chazan

Millimetrim for soprano saxophone and electronics by Rachel Beja 2022

Juan Ramón Bres Regueiro (flutist)
Eduardo Sánchez Moreno (clarinetist)
Alberto Barberis (electronics)

Work composed for the “Cátedra de Composición Manuel de Falla 2018”.

I. kogarashi
II. shinrin-yoku
III. komorebi

EAR Solo performance at the University of Music (SUM), Lugano, Switzerland
May 2nd, 2021

Image: Kintsugi

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For Viola, Piano and Electronics
Spheres Ensemble
LAC Lugano
12/05/ 2023

L'Empatia del vento - for Viola, Piano and Electronics

I am a professional saxophones player. arrange, and work with composers on new music. my repertoire range from ancient to contemporary, written and improvised music.

Millimetrim for soprano saxophone and electronics by Rachel Beja 2022

Jonathan Chazan

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