Ensemble works

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A dialogue between God and Cain, extract of José Saramgo's book CAIN. Live recording 2012, 19 October, Leipzig, Germany. Peterskirche, “Nachtgesang”. MDR Rundfunkchor, Arturo Fuentes (electronics), Howard Arman, conductor. Excerpt, total time 30 min.


Narrator: 

„Es ist einfach, ich habe Abel getötet, weil ich dich  nicht töten konnte, doch meiner Absicht nach bist du tot, Ich verstehe, was du sagen willst, aber Göttern ist der Tod verwehrt, Ja, obwohl sie alle Verbrechen auf sich nehmen müssten, die in ihrem Namen oder ihretwegen verübt wurden, Gott ist unschuldig, alles wäre genau so, wenn es ihn nicht gäbe, Aber ich kann, weil ich getötet habe, von jeden, der mich findet, getötet werden, Nein, so wird es nicht sein, ich schließe mit dir ein Bündnis, Ein Bündnis mit dem Verstoßenen, fragte Kain, denn er traute seinen Ohren kaum, Sagen wir, ein Abkommen gemeinsamer Verantwortung für Abels Tod, Du erkennst also deine Teilschuld an, Ja, aber sag es nicht weiter, es bleibt ein Geheimnis zwischen Gott und Kain.“ 

José Saramago, Kain, 2009


2012. In der Wüste (On the Desert) MDR Rundfunkchor, big choir and live electr.

Live in concert, 19 October 2013, Hall in Tirol, Austria, Barocker Stadtsaal. Work commissioned by Vokalensemble Stimmen, Thomas Kranebitter, cond.

Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum 
unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe,
quem dixere chaos (Ovid - Metamorphosen)

2013. Dixere Chaos (female vocal ensemble) Vokalensemble Stimmen

Wasteland_almost a landscape
for violin, viola and ensemble with amplification
Written for mdi ensemble and Festival Milano Musica

Lorenzo Gentili Tedeschi, violin
Paolo Fumagalli, viola
mdi ensemble

Carlo Goldstein, dir.


score published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-Sugarmusic S.p.A.

Wasteland_almost a landscape (2016)_excerpt [use headphones!]

Wasteland_apparent emptiness
for ensemble
Commissioned by ensemble proton bern

ensemble proton bern
Mathias Kuhn, dir.

"Approaching the matter until the borders disappear is like going into a continuum that seems not to know anymore (or yet) distinctions, separations. In the vertigo of indistinctness, hands, eyes and ears strive to identify relations in order to divide the matter and bring it back to a more human, finite dimension.
Touching, seeing, listening become the way to know and recognize at the same time, to give a name and a place to things. But these things change for constant interaction, so the attempt to frame the universe around us becomes imposition of form, establishment of relations.
Musical form as the process of its own creation".

score published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-Sugarmusic S.p.A.

Wasteland_apparent emptiness (2017) [use headphones!]

Finding a tangency (2012)
for ensemble

Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam
dir. Julien Hempel

Finding a tangency (2012)

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8Dio Adagio Basses: "Reminiscing" by Bill Brown

Assimilation was composed for a contrabass and a computer at die Kunstuniversität Graz in Austria in 2013.
It is an attempt to make organic relationships between three elements characterized by different quality of motions and of timbres; exploding attack - blaze, monotonous succession - monotone, and metallic harmony - bright.
Various modes of correspondence between these three types of motions/timbres are explored during the course of the piece. Gradually they develop interdependently to a climax. At the end of the piece they are converged to a single stream through a superimposition of the different types of motions/timbres.
This piece was awarded a third prize at International Taiwan Electroacoustic Music Award(Taiwan).

Finding a tangency (2012)

Maurizio Azzan