Recent Recordings - 2025

Bertrand Chavarria (guitar), Smash Ensemble. 2008, 28 November, Salamanca, Spain. Smash Festival. Centro de Arte DA2 Domus Atrium.

2008. Picado (guitar, ensemble, electr) Smash Ensemble

Matthias Pintscher
Nemeton, pour percussion 
Victor Hanna
enregistré en direct le 12.09.2014 à l'Ircam 

photo (c)Luc Hossepied pour l'Ensemble intercontemporain

Matthias Pintscher, Nemeton

electronic sounds for the Audio-visual Installation "common ground | entangling"
at Cambridge electro//acoustic day

https://www.electroacousticday.com/2025/on-common-ground/

with thanks to the visual artist Laura Alice Rosales

Fragments of Becoming

for piano

premiere:
by the composer - Sunday 2 March, Stanley Library, Girton College, Cambridge

the Re-enchantment of Spelling II

for treble recorder, piano (A4=432Hz), & celesta 

studio production by the composer
@ Montréal Road, Cambridge

a Sonic Case against Simplification

Premiered by @RiotEnsemble at the 'concert 2 | chambers'
part of the Cambridge electro//acoustic Day programme

Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Violoncello.

More information:
https://www.electroacousticday.com/2025/concert-2-chambers/

the Re-enchantment of Spelling

for cimbalom & electronics

studio production by the composer
@ Montréal Road, Cambridge

One for the Watery Lore

Concentric Circles 
(for orchestra) 

3 fl. &picc. 3 ob, 3 cl &3rd B.cl., 3 Bsn, 4 horns, 3 Tpt., 3 Tbn., Tuba, 4 percussionists, Pno & celesta, harp, vl.16, vl.II 14, vla. 12, cello 10, Cb. 8 

Program Note

	Concentric Circles is scored for a large orchestra. The concept for this work, and its organizational framework are inspired by the I-Ching (Book of Changes), an ancient Chinese treatise on divination with philosophical commentaries. It is composed of four continuous movements including I. Great Yin, II. Lesser Yang, III. Lesser Yin, and IV. Great Yang. The movement and energy within notes, and the proportion as well as the balance between silence (pauses) and music come from the concept and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy. 
        The first movement attempts to create a timeless, spacious and ethereal atmosphere with the rustling texture and exquisite softness similar to the ancient Chinese water-colour landscape brush painting. The second movement seeks the transparent colours and echo effects in different instrumental groups and orchestral timbres like the countless flowing ripples or tree rings. The third movement conjures up an energetic dance ritual with multi timbral and textural layers by brass and the lower instruments. While the last movement concludes the whole work with the torrential power as if *Kuafu was striving to chase and capture the Sun. 

* Kuafu is a giant in Chinese mythology who wished to capture the Sun. His story is similar to Icarus in Greek mythology.



Concentric Circles by Fuhong SHI 2009

Liza Lim, The Quickening (2005) for soprano and guqin
Deborah Kayser, soprano
Yang Chunwei, guqin

text: Yang Lian
programme note: https://limprogrammenotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/the-quickening-2005/

Liza Lim - The Quickening (2005)

premiered by Ensemble PHACE (vienna based) in Brick 5, Vienna.
Instrumentation: Fl. (B. Fl.), B. Cl., Perc. , Pno, Vln., Vla., Vlc.

Étude for 7 musicians (2018)

桑原ゆう｜柄と地、絵と余白、あるいは表と裏 (2018) 三味線独奏と7人の奏者のための（抜粋）
影も溜らず ー 淡座リサイタルシリーズ Vol.1 桑原ゆう個展
2019年7月19日 @東京オペラシティ リサイタルホール
演奏 | 本條秀慈郎（三味線）、梶川真歩（フルート）、西村薫（クラリネット）、中山航介（打楽器）、大須賀かおり（ピアノ）、三瀬俊吾（ヴァイオリン）、笠川恵（ヴィオラ）、竹本聖子（チェロ）、水戸博之（指揮）
本作品の全録音は、KAIROSよりリリースのアルバム「桑原ゆう：音の声、声の音」でお聴きいただけます：https://save-it.cc/hne/yu-kuwabara-sounded-voice-voiced-sound

Yu Kuwabara | figure and ground, image and margin, obverse and reverse (2018) for solo shamisen and seven musicians (excerpt)
recorded live from Shadowless - Yu Kuwabara Portrait at Tokyo Opera City Recital Hall, Tokyo, Japan on July 19, 2019
performed by Hidejiro Honjoh (solo shamisen), Maho Kajikawa (fl/afl), Kaoru Nishimura (cl/bcl), Kosuke Nakayama (perc), Kaori Osuga (pf), Shungo Mise (vn), Megumi Kasakawa (va), Seiko Takemoto (vc), Hiroyuki Mito (cond)
The full recording of the work can be found on YU KUWABARA: Sounded Voice, Voiced Sound (KAIROS): https://save-it.cc/hne/yu-kuwabara-sounded-voice-voiced-sound

YU KUWABARA: Sounded Voice, Voiced Sound

figure and ground, image and margin, obverse and reverse (2018, expt.) for shamisen and 7 musicians

playlist:

programme 1

Jose Maceda
"Ugnayan"
from Ugnayan
(Tzadik)

Adam Bohman
"1st August 2009.Adam Talking"
from The Period before the Birthday
(Self released)

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
"Sequences"
from Anthology of Canadian Music
(Radio Canada International)

Group Vranisht
"Fuat Bahani"
from Folk Music of Albania
(Topic Records)

François-Bernard Mâche
"Angelus"
from L'Anonnce faite à Marie
(Jade)

Bernard Fort
The Danube Delta by Night
from Nocturnes du Monde
(Frémeaux & Associés)

Jerry Hunt
Transform (Stream) : Monople
from Ground : Five Mechanic Convention Streams
(O.O.Discs)

Fragments of Becoming

Yihan Wang (王毅涵)

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