treader always in station [2014-15]
for two violists with light, objects, contraptions, and electronics

treader always in station [2014-15]

NEW VERSION - Live at Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2016

Gregory Charette, Cond. 

Daniel Boeke, Clarinet
Susanne Peters, Flute
Christian Smith, Vibraphone

w/ Daniel Walden, Piano
Mariana Hutchinson Siemers, Violin
Lidwine Dam, Viola
Antonis Pratsinakis, Cello

Bateau Ivre (2011) by John Zorn (b. 1953)

live rec. from THE MAW 
w/ Carrie Frey (homemade instruments)
Myra Hinrichs (homemade instruments)
Helen Newby (homemade instruments)
and Jenn Grossman (audio)

• sounds best on earbuds •

droch (ft. Chartreuse, Jenn Grossman) [2016-17]

for aluminum and plexiglass object, 640 computer fans, 25 arduino megas, 6 transducers. 

built with Markus Oppenländer, Axel Block, Lukas Rhb, among others and exhibited at the Kolumba Museum, Köln. (http://www.kolumba.de/?language=ger&cat_select=1&category=47&artikle=695&preview=).

binaural recording, headphones very strongly encouraged.

interdictor (exhibition version, for 640 computer fans) [2017]

Marek Poliks - mrlrr (2010) for quintet
Rec. by Ensemble SurPlus at Schloss Solitude, near Stuttgart

mrlrr [2010]

Marek Poliks - nursing home (2011)
Rec: John Kennedy and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

nursing home [2010]

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

Eclipse Plumage (2019), for amplified ensemble and electronics
Commissioned by Daniel Walden, for Ensemble Oerknal
World Première: 4 September 2019, Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Daniel Walden, prepared piano
Chris Swithinbank, objects
Christian Smith, percussions
Jellantsje de Vries, violin
Raphaella Engelsberg, viola,
René van Munster, cello,
Daniel Boeke, bass clarinet, objects
Susanne Peters, flute, objects

Eclipse Plumage (2019), for amplified ensemble and electronics

Performed by Oerknal:

Gregory Charette - Conductor
René van Munster - Cello
Daniel Boeke - Bass Clarinet
Susanne Peters - Alto Flute & Piccolo
Jellantsje de Vries - Violin
Christian Smith - Percussion
Sophie Patey - Piano

October 2019, Bilkent Concert Hall

Art: Yugo Kohrogi

A Night of Music in the Uncanny Valley, Part II (2019) for ensemble & electronics

Live @ Wurm for Radial Concert Series 
Basel, CH 
February 22nd, 2020 

Stefanie Mirwald, Accordion 
Alejandro Oliván López, Saxophones 
https://soundcloud.com/christian-s-smith , Percussion
*special guest* "The Basel SBB Train Station"

Jürg Frey - More or Less Normal (Radial Basel, 22.02.20)

Silence has no identity. It doesn't have a timbral profile, it doesn't have a pitch organisation nor is it constructed on a scale or a row. It has the dynamics we imagine and has a spectromorphology as complex as our mental state at the moment. 
It is what that has not started and it is what remains.
It is neither null nor 4'33.
It is as concrete as air.
It is coherent as it does not seek coherency. 
There is always silence; as there is always sound.

Written for Oerknal Ensemble.

Gregory Charette - Conductor
Susanne Peters - Flute
Daniel Boeke - Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Jellantsje de Vries - Violin
René van Munster - Cello
Sophie Patey - Piano
Christian Smith - Percussion

2019, Ankara.

Moments from Silence (2019) for ensemble

premiered by Oerknal Ensemble at Bilkent Concert Hall October 23, 2019. 

Gregory Charette, conductor
Susanne Peters, flute
Daniel Boeke, bass clarinet
Christian Smith, percussion
Sophie Patey, piano
Jellantsje de Vries, violin
René van Munster, cello

Mastering: Deniz Aslan

Palimpsest

Oerknal is a collective of international musicians based in The Netherlands united by a passion for new creative experiences and the belief that music should be presented in a direct, visceral manner. Oerknal has performed in various podia and festivals in The Netherlands including Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Gaudeamus Music Week (Utrecht), Soundsofmusic (Groningen) and Korzo Theater (Den Haag), in addition to international residencies at festivals such as the Delian Academy for New Music (Greece) and DAM Festival (Kosovo). Since their founding in 2013 Oerknal has commissioned works from numerous composers and has engaged in cross-disciplinary collaborations aimed at exploring unique artistic overlaps and different models of concert presentation. Their debut album narrow numerous was released in 2018 on the 7 Mountain Records label.