ekmeles vocal ensemble. recorded at scholes street studio in brooklyn, 27/03/2021.
https://joshuamastel.com/animal/

animal (for six voices: ekmeles ensemble)

Joshua Mastel: bass clarinet, piano, homemade machine
(recorded June 2021)
https://joshuamastel.com/Bass-Clarinet-and-Piano/
https://joshuamastel.bandcamp.com/track/passage

passage (bass clarinet + piano)

https://youtu.be/rI97uTZFghk
https://joshuamastel.com/four-gazes/

four gazes

https://joshuamastel.com/we-were-something-different-then-ii/

we were something different then (ii) | for 4 violas da gamba

for cello, transducers, and sampler.
ensemble mosaik (Mathis Mayr and Ernst Surberg) live at Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin.

Gravity and Center (cello + sampler)

Flood (passage ii)

Electric Wind Harp July 20 2022 8:15pm

https://youtu.be/knv6icxgUIE
https://youtu.be/ZcX9btuNOCQ
Yarn/Wire live at Tenri Cultural Institute, 4/16/23. 
Audio mix by Isaac Blumfield.

Felt

ekmeles ensemble live at the DiMenna Center in nyc, 5/23/23.
https://youtu.be/rDfYs1htYKI?t=696

animal [LIVE at DiMenna Center]

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

Ex-Sentia Ensemble live in Bern, Switzerland

https://joshuamastel.com/Replica/

Replica (passage iv)

for line upon line percussion trio
https://joshuamastel.com/an-unknown-orchid/

an unknown orchid

ambient reworking of the end of my piece for four violas da gamba. 
https://joshuamastel.com/we-were-something-different-then-ii/

we were something different then [remix]

Progression

Live at Sunview Luncheonette

concert footage:
https://youtu.be/3IW4VrtuecM

sky goes dark

metropolitan museum of art 12.02.24 (binaural)

metropolitan museum & east 82nd street 12.10.24 (binaural)

Endless Rain | for organ (live)

central park ramble 04.22.25 (binaural)

https://youtu.be/mTG-Hk_wYaY
This piece was made by programming a suite of Python packages that “read” through a .txt file of Melville’s book and, using several LLMs trained on 19th-century English-language literature (and the King James Bible and Shakespeare—Melville’s most apparent syntactic influences), “translates” or interprets the sentiment analysis of the text into various musical parameters in real time. I built logics to govern harmonic structure, modulation, rhythmic activity, polyphonic density, harmonic salience/chromatic saturation, pedaling, velocity, and methods of sliding between the poles of each parameter in the hopes of creating an emergent, strangely organic musical response out of the program. Due to the real-time response of the code, every run is unique, even when it’s reading the exact same text. My intent is to do the whole book, with unique tweaks and updates for each chapter (there are 136) to create constantly varying “movements” of piano music. I want the music to create the same sense of vastness that the book does. A sense that this could never end. And an ambiguity between wanting it to, and hoping it never does.

MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE: CHAPTER I.—LOOMINGS.

https://joshuamastel.com/Blur/
Performed by the New Fromm Players at Tanglewood Music Center August 18, 2025.
Sheena Lan, violin
James Gikas, violin
Audrey Wang, viola
Han Lee, cello

Blur | for string quartet (2025)

performed by Jacob Mason
https://joshuamastel.com/HALCYON-COLLAPSE/

Halcyon Collapse/vanishing point

wanderer mantra

For retuned Sheng, Dizi, Cello, and retuned Guqin.

Recorded by AIR Contemporary Music Collective, Beijing, summer 2019.
https://joshuamastel.com/an-experiment/

an experiment on a bird in the air pump

after beethoven op. 96, II. adagio espressivo.

silver thread, winding

for solo violin (for Giancarlo Latta)
https://youtu.be/Kl6SsRJmo2c
https://joshuamastel.com/writhe-wither/

writhe & wither (for solo violin)

harpsichord and sine tones

Live broadcast for Deutschlandfunk Kultur Radio at the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin, as part of the Ultraschall Festival für neue Musik. ensemble mosaik directed by Bas Wiegers.
https://joshuamastel.com/spread-in-lobes/

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