Hommage á Georg Friedrich Haas (revised version)
for 2 pianos tuned quarter-tone apart
Kadri-Ann Sumera (piano)

Sound Plasma Festival for Alternative Intonations
Mustpeade maja, Tallinn Philharmonic, November 2020

Hommage á Georg Friedrich Haas (revised verion)

ULYSSES Ensemble 2021
Pierre Bleuse, conductor
ULYSSES co-commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou and Fondation Royaumont
​Académie du festival ManiFeste 
Le Centquatre
Paris, France
19 June 21
watch: 
https://youtu.be/Ktu9YlpsGXA?t=41

Diwata (excerpt)

A new string quartet movement which I composed in 2013-14 especially for The Cavaleri Quartet during their residency at the University of Oxford. This residency was generously supported by the Radcliffe Trust. The recording was by Sennheiser and the performance took place at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford on the 5th March 2014.

Violin I: Martin Jackson
Violin II: Ciaran McCabe
Viola: Ann Beilby
Violoncello: Rowena Calvert

ESCHATON - String Quartet No. 1 - The Cavaleri Quartet @ University of Oxford

FANTASY FOR THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY  (2021-2022/Rev. 2024)
for two percussionists
Live recording of the premiere (revised version) at KU.BE, Copenhagen, 2025.
Performed by the Reumert/Elten Percussion Duo.


Fantasy for the Persistence of Memory. Louis Franz Aguirre

The rich overtone harmonies produced from subtly interlocked multiphonics dominate the trio klangNarbe (‘sound-scar’) for baritone saxophone, percussion and prepared piano (2014-15), a jagged soundscape whose topography is subject to constant erosion. The metallic timbres and noise spectra of a multi-coloured percussion section (frequently played with bows) are combined with multiphonics from the saxophone and the sounds of a prepared piano, which sometimes pro- duces 17-tone multiphonic clusters. The pianist also plays inside the instrument, producing sharp accents or glissandos with a hard plectrum or generating mi- crotonal cluster-surfaces with a double-bass bow. Here the tension between con- tinuum and event – between stationary surface and sharply etched crosshatching within multi-dimensional overlaps of sonic foregrounds and backgrounds – is typical of Khorkova’s music and assumes especially trenchant forms. The contrasts in the piece are its programme: ‘klangNarbe plays with the contradiction between contrasting compositional materials that are considered irreconcilable and yet are combined in the manner of a mosaic. I create bridges across the lines of frac- ture in this material, bridges visible as scars. The term sound-scars also applies to the work’s genesis, which extended over a very long period of time and was fraught with upheavals.’
The block-like events, separated by distinct gaps, give rise to violent outbursts and accentuations: harsh cluster hammerblows, drinking glasses scraped on thun- der-sheets, roaring glissandi as the saxophonist yells into the instrument. No scar without a previous wound...
Dirk Wieschollek

klangNarbe [2014-2015] for baritone saxophone, percussion and prepared piano

"Mischievous Iterations"
Yago Mahúgo, harpsichord
This piece was premiered by Yago on April 29th, 2018 at Churchill College, University of Cambridge
Recorded by Yago Mahúgo
Find out more about Yago here: www.yagomahugo.com/en/

Mischievous Iterations for Harpsichord

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Bas Wiegers

Sound engineer: Kaspar Karner
Klassikaraadio / Estonian Public Broadcasting
date of live broadcast 2.11.2018

Nakba

RED SUN AND SHIP 
(Contrapunctus 5, after a painting by Kandinsky)
Live recording at the Kvarterhuset Amagerbro, København, Denmark, on December 17th, 2019.
Accordion: Adam Ørvad.

RED SUN AND SHIP (2019)

https://louisaguirre.cargo.site/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpHP3DQe90w6q6uD_kY-UAw/featured?view_as=subscriber
Louis Aguirre (f. 1968) Cubansk komponist bosiddende i Danmark. Aguirre er uddannet som komponist i Cuba, Amsterdam, men fortsatte studierne efter han flyttede til Danmark i 2004, og afsluttede solistklassen i komposition ved Det jyske Musikkonservatorium i 2007. Aguirre er en stærk og original stemme i dansk musikliv. Hans værkliste, med mere end 200 værker, inkluderer: opera, orkester- og kammermusik, soloværker, vokalmusik, koral-, elektronisk- og didaktisk musik. Han er en aktiv del af musiklivet i Danmark og Nordjylland, bl.a. ved sit arbejde som medlem af komponistgruppen Snow Mask og som kunstnerisk leder af Snow Mask Ensemblet. En række af hans værker er inspirerede af den cubanske Santeria religion og de religiøse tekster fra området.

Fantasy for the Persistence of Memory. Louis Franz Aguirre

Louis Franz Aguirre

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