Name: musica spolia (quartet version) by Katherine Balch
Duration: 5 min 59 s
Description: performed and recorded by L'Instant Donné

performed and recorded by L'Instant Donné

musica spolia (quartet version)

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2 clar, 2 sax, 2 trb, 3 perc, pno, acc, e-guit, 2 cello, 2 cb, transducers & spatialization

DAIC ensemble from CNSMDP
Franck Ollu, cond.

18/03/22, Conservatoire de Paris CNSMDP
mix : J.-B. Nirascou
photo © B. Champeaux

Organum (2021-22) | 16 instruments & elec.

DUBIOUS ABBREVIATIONS

perf. by London sinfonietta, cond. Jack Sheen. 2nd of December 2022, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank center, London (UK)

"To dream is to forget.." - Fernando Pessoa. The Book of Disquiet

"I’ve been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it…" Morton Feldman, 1982

Co-commissioned by and written for Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta and Remix Ensemble

Cyclically floating between different phases of density and intensity, minor and major, slowing or accelerating waves, the piece is woven from hypnotically repetitive patterns of 7 slightly different tempos which intertwine through 16 lines of the ensemble conceived as a complex human body with regular breathing, heart beating, eye movements, blood flow etc., all happening at the same time but not synchronised.

The title “Sleeping Patterns” refers to the brain wave oscillations through different sleep stages as well as to the Morton Feldman’s question “Why Patterns?”

Duration: 20’

Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, hn, tbn, acc, kbd, 2 vibr, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb

© Éditions Salabert/Universal Music Publishing Classical

"Sleeping patterns" for ensemble (2022), London sinfonietta (excerpt)

12 clarinets (4 basses, 2 basset horns, 6 Bflat clarinets)

performed by Jérôme Voisin and his students

13/05/23, Boulogne-Billancourt (FR)

photo ©BChampeaux

Byword (2023) | 12 clarinets

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

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lullaby(e) for
Flute (picc. Bass), Clarinet (Bb, Bb Bass), Percussion, Piano, Accordion, Violin, Violoncello, Double Bass and electronics

As the title suggests, this work serves as the final lullaby one hears. The catastrophic aftermath of the recent earthquake in Turkey has profoundly affected even those who were not directly impacted by the disaster. This composition is the product of the thoughts that have occupied my mind since that fateful day.
The tape segment of the piece involves the manipulation of a recorded excerpt from the Turkish lullaby "Dandini Dandini Dasdana."

The piece was commissioned by Schallfeld Ensemble

performed by Schallfeld Ensemble
live electronics: Davide Gagliardi
conductor: Leonhard Garms
concert recording, November 18
ÜBER WEGE SAISON KONZERT IV: WACHSEN
Schaumbad - Freies Atelierhaus Graz, Austria

lullaby(e) - Schallfeld Ensemble

premiered by line upon line at Harvard University's Paine Hall, Cambridge MA february 28, 2023

something buried in the earth (2023) | line upon line

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MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra
commissioned by Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Wien Modern

Live Recording WDR Orchestra, 12 May 2019, Witten

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra

performed by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (2015)

speckled the green and blue (excerpt)

composer living in the woods // interested in tiny sounds, leaves, stacks of thirds, and music that jitters // Asst. Prof. of Composition, Yale School of Music

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