for orchestra and amplified percussion

Premiered by Orchestre Symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the direction of Louis Lavigueur (March 28, 2015)/ Thierry Jacques-Soudin (March 29, 2015) at Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

A huge thanks to Loïc Guilloux for his recording and mastering work.

noli me tangere | 29.03.2015 | Orchestre Symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal

Oren Boneh - Als ich tot war (2024-25)
Original music for 8 instruments and electronics composed for Ernst Lubitsch's silent film Als ich tot war (1916)
Commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain and IRCAM-Centre Pompidou

Premiered 20 February 2025 at La Cité de la Musique, Paris 
by Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Martin Matalon

https://www.orenboneh.com/

Als ich tot war (2025) audio only, no film - for 8 instruments and electronics

Notice for the premiere of Der Seismograph Leo Collin, July 2016. Written within the framework Manifeste, IRCAM.

Recipe to built a seismograph

#Ingredients# (5-6 min of music) 
for 5 persons + sampler
- ascendant and descendant lines (sawtooth)
- exponential crescendi
- horizontal and vertical lines. (switch on/off)
- reference pitches : do/sol
- a long siren
- A sentence about volcan, if possible poetic.


My suggestion : Avec entêtement je poursuivais mon forage vers le noyau de feu que je croyais sentir, comme un volcan, sous le rocher de son silence. from Verwirrung der Gefühle (1927) Stefan Zweig
#Directions#
This piece sounds like an eruption report, done by an imaginary seismograph. Enjoy! 
Preparation : first part (before the eruption)
Pre-warning : second part (the eruption)
Pause : third part (transmission of the eruption to the security siren)
Cooking : fourth part (suite of the eruption, volcanic bombs)
Leave to cool : coda (end of the eruption, problem of communication )

music for seismograph (for 5 musicians )

Ensemble Intercontemporain
cond. by Julien Leroy

premiere recording from ManiFeste 2016
Paris, France

dimINNUENDO for 9 performers (2016)

dimINNUENDO for 9 performers

OM (2016)
Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, and Piano

BlauerReiter Ensemble
Conductor: Armando Merino
Bass Flute: Zinajda Kodrič
Bass Clarinet: Miao Zhao
Violin: Cristian Roibu
Viola: Alexa Beattie
Violoncello: Graham Waterhouse
Piano: Marco Riccelli

17.11.2016 Johannissaal, Nymphenburg Palace, München

Revised version performed by Ensemble mdi (Elena Gabbrielli, Paolo Casiraghi, Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi, Paolo Fumagalli, Giorgio Casati, Luca Ieracitano), conducted by Armando Merino on December 20, 2017 at Auditorium Lattuada, Milano.

OM (2016)

Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra  {o}  sept.2017  {o}  w/ Brad Lubman

T h r i f t   &   S h a m b l e d    N u a n c e [BrusselsPhilharmonic - 2017]

Widerklang for bass-clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello
l'instant donné

premiere recording from Festival Musica
Strasbourg, France

Widerklang for 5 performers (2

Widerklang for 5 performers

Scowle, 2018,
For amplified ensemble, 8-ch electronics and spotlights.
World premiere by ensemble hand werk | International contemporary music festival CROSSROADS | Salzburg, Austria, December 6, 2018

*** Please use headphones ***
* This is a live stereo recording.

Scowle, for ensemble, electronics and spotlights (live recording)

Acousmatique 4, Quadriphonie | 2019 • mix stereo

Fondali (for 8 instruments with electronics, 2019 - Casa Ricordi)
19.03.2019 @ Freies Atelier Schaumbad, Graz
Schallfeld Ensemble, Leonhard Garms (cond.) - WP
Live recording / Sound director: Davide Gagliardi
Mix & master: Francesco Ambrosini

commissioned by Schallfeld Ensemble
with the financial support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Fondali (2019)

String Quartet No. 3 "Shadows" by Yann Robin (2016)
Premiered by the Tana Quartet at Philharmonie de Paris

Commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris, Concertgebouw Brugge &  Wigmore Hall London with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, and Collectif Tana.

Als ich tot war (2025) audio only, no film - for 8 instruments and electronics

Oren Boneh

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