different gravities
mov. II of IV

written for & performed by Longleash
recorded at the Loretto Motherhouse, Lebanon, KY

different gravities, mov. II

For contrabass flute, oboe, piano, percussion, violin and cello.

Abattoir I - 6 instruments | 2023

Premiered by Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

Tim Weiss, conductor

Sasha Ishov, flute
Clayton, Luckadoo, clarinet
Herdís Guomundsdóttir, violin I
Laura Gamboa, violin II
Felix Veser, viola
Miles Reed, cello
Reed Puleo, percussion
Liam Kaplan, piano

Zihan Wu_After Infinity_Chamber Ensemble (2024)

JACK Quartet, premiere performance (February 27th, 2015), The DiMenna Center, New York City

In Partial View (2015) - for string quartet

Pièce pour quatuor de flûtes, créée le 22 novembre 2024 dans le cadre du concert "Virtuosités plurielles", présenté par Codes d'accès.

Interprètes : Quatuor Ondine
Captation : Louis-Michel Tougas

Félicia Lévesque, flûte 1
Marie Eliane Dubois, flûte 2
Mathilde Vaillancourt, flûte 3
Gabriel Lapointe-Guay, flûte 4

La pièce "Hosanna !", pour quatuor de flûtes, s'inspire de la tradition rhétorique et de l'ars combinatoria pour produire une texture complexe dont tous les paramètres sont tirés des propriétés poétiques et prosodiques du mot "hosanna", cri de joie et d'acclamation poussé par les anges au Paradis. Sorte d'incantation, la pièce reprend et transforme sans cesse les mêmes éléments, à la manière d'un kaléidoscope, puisant aussi bien dans la tradition cabalistique que dans la technique sérielle et l'harmonie spectrale. La pièce fait ainsi notamment usage d'une superposition étagée de couches temporelles différenciées et d'une scordatura microtonale, de façon à déployer une sorte de volière d'oiseaux hallucinée chantant le miracle de l'infini...

Hosanna !

ensemble of 7 musicians
2022

Ensemble Court-circuit (Jean Deroyer, conducting)
22/11/2022

Unobtainium

Ezra Calvino & Yale Philharmonia
Woolsey Hall
December 12, 2024

𝘋𝘶𝘳

Recorded in a live concert by Ensemble Écoute:
 -- Flute: Samuel Casale
 -- Clarinets: Claire Voisin
 -- Percussion: Quentin Dubreuil
 -- Piano: Orlando Bass
 -- Violin: Rachel Koblyakov
 -- Cello: Bertille Mas
 -- Conductor: Fernando Palomeque

December 12, 2024
Maison de l'Argentine, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

Program notes:
Being on the verge of leaving — this time, far away and for good — the path that stretches from my home village straight to the Jordan River feels like a runway. As I'm walking along this path, the landscape takes on its own rhythm: at various intervals, I pass two pecan plantations; a lady and her dog; several flocks of cranes; finally, the river; and in the background, as ever, the Golan Heights, changing color from burning orange to dark purple.
During one of my daily walks along this path, I experienced a moment of incredible clarity: the path in length, the heights and the river in width; and the realization that everything that will happen, can, possibly, happen right now.

Portrait/Paysage, Dès Maintenant

Performed by Carter Johnson and Vitaly Starikov in Sprague Hall of Yale University in 2024. Composed in 2023.
Recorded by Brittney Benton and Matt LeFevre, mixed and mastered by Jules Bastin-Fontaine
Cover art by Johann Pacheco-Veissiere

i. à mauve ouvert - à McEwen
ii. abstraction verte - à Borduas (1:23)
iii. autriche iii - à Riopelle (3:24)
iv. blanc sur blanc - à Tousignant (5:58)
v. ghost hills - à Ferron (8:27)

Program Notes:

A group of Québécois.e painters known as The Automatistes were inspired by the notion of surrealist automatism, valuing spontaneity of gesture and the unconscious mind in the creation process. What followed this fascination was an artistic movement rich with dynamic, abstract works, with each painting offering unique and striking contrasts of color and form. Through texture and harmony, I sought to translate these evocative visual contrasts into musical chiaroscuro in The Chiaroscurist: Five Contrasts for Pitch Black Night. Each of the short pieces in the set was inspired by a different painting by a Québécois.e artist working in the 20th century, including Jean McEwen, Paul-Émile Borduas, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Marcelle Ferron, and Claude Tousignant, the latter of which painted in a reactionary style to automatism, known as geometric abstraction. Four of the five paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, while Ferron’s Ghost Hills is located in the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. This piano duo was commissioned by the Luba Zuk Piano Duo Composition Prize at McGill University.

The Chiaroscurist: Five Contrasts for Pitch Black Night

Performed by TILT Brass
-Trumpets: Wayne Dumaine, Rebecca Steinberg
-Horn: Kyra Simms
-Tenor trombone: Chris McIntyre
-Bass trombone: Mark Broschinsky

Recorded live at a concert at the Zürcher Gallery, New York
March 29, 2025
Sound by David Adamcyk

Instead of programme notes:
Stone, n. 
 […] as a type of motionlessness 
[…] of hardness, and hence as an emblem of insensibility, stupidity, deadness  
[…] a block, slab, or pillar of stone set up as a memorial.
Stone, v. 
 […] to put to death by pelting with stones.

(From the Oxford English Dictionary)

The Chiaroscurist: Five Contrasts for Pitch Black Night

Lily Koslow

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