The Composition of Timbre: A Multidimensional Approach

The Shimmer Beneath: A Scattering Attempt, for cello duo (2019)
Recording of a reading session at the University of York, June 2021.
Gaia Blandina and Ali Baumann (The Chimera Ensemble).

This piece is part of my research on Luminance as a semantic dimension of timbre.

The Shimmer Beneath: A Scattering Attempt (2019) [reading session] | Michele Abondano

The Loneliness of the Rusted Things
For flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello.
Premiered by Riot Ensemble at Crossroads International Contemporary Music Festival. Salzburg, 2021.
Unofficial recording of a rehearsal.
Photograph by Fabian Schober.

The Loneliness of the Rusted Things (2020) [Rehearsal] | Michele Abondano

For amplified cello and piano (2020–21)

The title (Spanish for ‘dry soil’) responds to an exploration of dryness as an opportunity to study he fragility of timbre from the particular and intimate experience of friction. In this composition, noise is especially approached as a dynamic entity from the materials that rub, brush or scrap the strings. Therefore, performers are invited to approach their instruments as dry soil territories in which they move to discover each textural identity. Cello and piano are explored as mirrored sources of sound, thus both instruments respond to each other as mutual extensions of their timbral conditions. Amplification works as a microscope: rather than just intensifying the sound, it is thought of as a magnifier of the inside of timbre, its structure and behaviour. 

Performers: Ivana Peranic (cello) and Rachel Fryer (piano)
Live recording at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2021.
Illuminate Women's Music Concert Series

suelo seco (2020–21) | Michele Abondano

Premiered by  Wojciech Psiuk (soprano sax) and Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska (viola) at the Pałac Radziejowice (Poland).
Unofficial recording of the premiere, July 26, 2019.
Synthetis International Summer Course for Composers.

Buy score & parts: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/5467-distorted-pieces-of-something
Read more about the piece on my website: https://micheleabondano.com/2019/07/29/distorted-pieces-of-something-study-on-light-when-it-rains/

Distorted Pieces of Something. Study on Light (when it rains)(2019)| Michele Abondano

Just an attempt to dissipate (2020) - Michele Abondano
commissioned by lovemusic

alto flute - Emiliano Gavito
bass clarinet - Adam Starkie 
guitar - Christian Lozano
voice - Léa Trommenschlager

Recorded by Simon Hanot

Just An Attempt To Dissipate [live recording] - Michele Abondano - lovemusic

A Weightlessness Process (or how to become ethereal), for solo cello (2019).
Excerpt from a preliminary version of the piece in a reading session. Performed by Séverine Ballon during a workshop at the University of Leeds, 2019.

Buy score: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/5468-a-weightlessness-process

You can read more about the piece on my website: https://micheleabondano.com/2020/04/10/a-weightlessness-process-or-how-to-become-ethereal/
Watch my video presentation on the research for this composition at the 56th RMA Annual Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Z4MUQAxKM

A Weightlessness Process (or how to become ethereal) [Preliminary Version-Exc.] | Michele Abondano

and it comes like a piece of light through the dust, for solo bass clarinet.
Premiered by Chuck Furlong.
Verdant Vibes Concert Series, December 2020.

Read more about the piece: https://micheleabondano.com/2020/11/24/and-it-comes-like-a-piece-of-light-through-the-dust/

You can buy the score on Babel Scores: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/5470-and-it-comes-like-a-piece-of-light-through-the-dust

and it comes like a piece of light through the dust (2018-20) | Michele Abondano

'We no longer sleep in the wind', for solo Paetzold double bass recorder (2020), written very especially for Sylvia Hinz.

Recording of the premiere, February 13th, 2021.
Performed by Sylvia Hinz.

About the piece: https://micheleabondano.com/2020/03/24/we-no-longer-sleep-in-the-wind/

Photography of Sylvia Hinz at the CTM hacklab finale 2020.

We no longer sleep in the wind (2020) | Michele Abondano

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