Parallax for piano solo

Drops Of Sound Embryos

BACK & FORTH (2012) by Tom Johnson and Luiz Henrique Yudo 

This collaboration between Tom Johnson and Luiz Henrique Yudo was one of the several commissions given by the percussion ensemble SLAGWERK DEN HAAG to celebrate John Cage centenary. Cage once collaborated with Lou Harrison on a work entitled 'Double Music' , each agreeing to write percussion music in a certain tempo for a certain length of time, without knowing what the other would write. 
In the case of Johnson and Yudo, they decided to write ten minutes of music that would go BACK & FORTH from one composer to the other every ten seconds. 
It begins with Johnson, respecting alphabetical order. 
Yudo's part is scored for five players (in this case, five percussionists). 
Each player reads from a stave of three lines indicating three different sounds - these can be freely chosen pitches, chords or found objects, and can be played on any instrument (pitched or unpitched) ad libitum. 
Canon and symmetry have generated the basic structure of the music. 

(Introduction notes by Johnson and Yudo - May 2012)  


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World-Première - 29 NOV 2012 
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

SLAGWERK DEN HAAG 
Fedor Teunisse 
Juan Martinez
Niels Meliefste
Pepe Garcia
Joey Marijs
Frank Wienk  

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Slagwerk Den Haag 
http://www.slagwerkdenhaag.nl 

Tom Johnson 
http://www.editions75.com

BACK & FORTH (Johnson + Yudo)

Originally heard as a solo electronic piece in a Scottish Arts Trust concert in May 2023, "Celestial Objects II" was re-drafted and finalised with a significant organ part made for Lauren Redhead & Alistair Zaldua to perform in a concert during their residency at the 2023 Festival Registri in Venice. Here is their performance on 27 October 2023 featuring the 1745 Nachini organ in the Chiesa Isola di San Servolo.

The electronic part is punctuated by a 'phaser choir' singing short sequences of chords around a powerful 64' reed drone, over which the organ delivers slow-spreading clusters of light.

https://laurenredhead.eu/post/Festival-Registri-2023-residency

CELESTIAL OBJECTS II (2023) (Live performance Lauren Redhead & Alistair Zaldua)

Starter

Written for and Performed by Tre Voci Cello Ensemble at Brunel University.

Sway explores the proximity between two bodies, that of the performer and the cello. As one activates the other, they fall into a dance.
A play on domination- the two bodies shift with ease between the acting driving force and relinquishing control. Acting as choreographic indications for the performer’s body, the movement score takes chladni patterns from the cello range and repurposes them to open, lift and compress the torso. These lead to the activation of new vibrations propagating throughout the body of the cello, pushing through the F hole to merge with the already sounding waves released by the other activated wooden bodies.
The piece ends with the cello being released from the clutches of the dance and returned to its primary state. The performer changes plane, drawing away from the previously occupied space whipping the air, splicing through the weighted dense texture of sound.

https://www.loladelamata.com/sway-for-three-performers-preparing-to-stand/

Sway, For Three Performers Preparing to Stand - Tre Voci (excerpt)

This short piece, written for Paul, is composed intuitively, without the use of processes. It reflects an evolution of my musical thinking, or perhaps a return to the way I was composing before I began feeling a need to justify my compositional decisions.

“Unrestricted Music” was written for Paul Evernden and premiered by him at The Old Church, Stoke Newington on 17 September 2019.

Unrestricted Music

Chants voix, violon violoncelles, effets divers et engins rouillés – compositions et improvisations, paroles français anglais et yaourt, entre Orient, Occident, matière sonore et souvenir traditionnel flous, détour technologique de grande envergure, bon niveau général. On peut sans doute aller sous-terre ou parler aux extra-terrestres.
Interview de Amaryllis Billet
Amaryllis Billet (violon, voix), Léonore Grollemund (violoncelle, voix)

Extraits audio :
Ombre (Léonore Grollemund arr. Griffure) - Enregistré live au festival Le champs des muses, Rajasse (2019)
Avance (Amaryllis Billet arr. Griffure) - Enregistré live au festival Le champs des muses, Rajasse (2019)

Les écouter : https://soundcloud.com/user-772769330

UMRADIO - Episode 2 - Griffure

Across the Blood-M.Bonaventure& Loo(p)cy

Luiz Henrique Yudo (1962 -) is a Dutch/Brazilian composer of Japanese descent. He received his training as an architect at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP) and later studied at the Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie in Amsterdam. 
He studied privately with the Brazilian composer Damiano Cozzella and the American composer Tom Johnson. Many of his compositions are strongly inspired by visual associations. He writes scores in which there are aspects left open to the musicians in order to create an individual interpretation. Performers of his music are therefore invited to play a very active role in the creative process. 

Scores and catalogue available on request 
luizyudo@yahoo.com

BACK & FORTH (Johnson + Yudo)

Luiz Henrique Yudo

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