Steve Reich | Drumming | Ictus (A Cyprès CD, 2002)

Steve Reich : Drumming (1st movement)

A Dark Light / A Black Sun (2023) | De Paz & PHACE

Moi, jeu... Bruno Mantovani

Remix de Marcel Pascual sobre "Nana" de Manuel de Falla, en la versión de Saxofón y Percusión, por el dúo In_keys.

Remix Nana Manuel de Falla Sax & Perc by Marcel Pascual

live recording from the world premiere, 6.11.15, Minoritten hall in Graz (Austria)
Ensemble Zeitfluss, Edo Micic - conductor

von Schwelle zu Schwelle

Lorenzo Romano

Furore (2016)
for 6 instruments and live electronics

Live recording: 30.10.2017 Afekt Festival, Tallin, Estonia

Schallfeld Ensemble
Zinajda Kodrič Flute
Szilárd Benes Clarinet
Manuel Alcaraz Clement Percussion
Flavia Cerrato Piano
Lorenzo Derinni Violin
Myriam García Fidalgo Cello
Davide Gagliardi Live Electronics and Sound Direction

Leonhard Garms Conductor

Furòre (from Latin “furor -oris” (be mad, flare up):
1.a) State of mental turmoil and great commotion provoked by anger or another violent passion. 1.b) Fierce violence, power. 
2.a) Unrestrained desire. 2.b) Far furore: to arouse great enthusiasm.
My vision of “furore” is a net, which binds together:
deformations and deconstructions of pre-existing music material, obsessive rhythmical structures speeded up and slowed down, different states of sound qualities, violent percussive hits coming from junkyard metals, scratches (as heard in hip hop music), pre-recorded voices and sounds taken from action movies.

Furore

Steel-wool (2018):
Short piece written for my Masters at the Kunstuniversität Graz.
For percussion and piano, amplified string quartet and ensemble.

Percussion: Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Piano: Tsugumi Shirakura
Ensemble Neue Musik (students of the Kunstuniversität Graz)
Conductor: Edo Micic

Minoritensaal, Graz, Austria, 2018.

Hernández: Steel-wool (2018) - For Ensemble

Davide Gagliardi - Gravity Does Not Apply, for snare drum and live electronics
Performer: Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Recorded in one take at the CUBUS (Minoriten) Graz
8.12.2018

manuelalcarazclemente.com
https://www.davidegagliardi.eu/

Davide Gagliardi - Gravity Does Not Apply

"Chronicles of the after bomb" is part of a cycle that works on the ruins, the remains of the instruments, as after a detonation.

Instrumentation: Double trio, electronics and lights:

Voice: Elina Viluma
Performer 1: Lorenzo Derinni
Performer 2: Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Clarinet: Szilard Benez
Cello: Myriam Garcia Fidalgo
Piano: Patrik Skrilecz
Regie: Davide Gagliardi

Performance:
Elina Viluma and Schallfeld ensemble, October 2019, Theater am Lend

Lorenzo Troiani_Chronicles of the afterbomb

for piano and percussion, interpreted by Isaac Álamo (piano) and Manuel Alcaraz (percussion)

Sith

Rückstoß / Rückschlag  (2019/20)
für Manuel Alcaraz Clemente

für einen Streichinstrumentalisten / Perkussionisten und einer mit Bogen gespielten Springdrum

(for a solo String instrumentalist / Percussionist with a bowed Springdrum)

Springdrum: Manuel Alcaraz Clemente
Recording, mixing and mastering: Diego Jiménez Tamame
Videography: nbewegtbild

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yDIGW1jU5A

Binaural audio (best with good quality headphones).

Rückstoß/Rückschlag — Manuel Alcaraz Clemente

Manuel Alcaraz Clemente is a Spanish percussionist, specializing in the interpretation of contemporary music. He is mainly active as a soloist, chamber and ensemble musician, as well as an educator. Manuel is currently based in Graz, Austria.

As a soloist, his versatility ranges from playing classic contemporary music repertoire for percussion, to regularly working with young composers, who are recognized in the international contemporary music scene for the creation of new pieces and innovative interpretations.

Since 2016, he has been the percussionist of Ensemble Schallfeld (AT) and Noviga Projekto (PT/AT)

Besides his work in these formations, he freelances regularly with Contemporary Music Ensembles and Orchestras such as Klangforum Wien, Lucerne Festival Alumni, Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz, Mdi Ensemble, among many others.

In addition, he has performed in several festivals including the Lucerne Festival (CH), Wien Modern (AT), Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt (DE), Klangspuren Schwaz (AT), Afekt Festival (EST), Impuls Festival and Steirischer Herbst (AT) and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (EN).

He offers regularly workshops and masterclasses for composers and percussionists in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Slovenia.

Manuel received his Bachelor Degree at ESMuC (Catalonia College of Music, Barcelona). In 2015, he completed his Master in solo performance at ESMAE (Oporto, Portugal). In January 2018 he completed the Master Program ‘PPCM (Practice and Performance of Contemporary Music)’, where he worked alongside the members of Klangforum Wien.

The current season includes among other activities, the premiere of Pierluigi Billone’s new piece for percussion solo and ensemble, written for Manuel Alcaraz Clemente and the Ensemble Schallfeld, and financed by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung; as well as the premiere of “An Elemental Thing”, Manuel Alcaraz Clemente’s new solo project.

Since 2019 Manuel is Marimba One™ Educational Artist.