New Music Unlisted - 8 (Kitaptan Sonra)

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SOME COMPOSITIONS

Score: http://bit.ly/1FyYDcS

Pedro Alvarez 
Two Surfaces (2013)
Ensemble Hand Werk:
--Daniel Agi, alto flute
--Heather Roche, clarinet
--Stefanie van Backlé, violin
--Niklas Seidl, cello
--Jens Ruland, percussion
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
www.pedroalvarez.info

'Two Surfaces', like many of my recent endeavours, attempts to present a static, 'objectified' aesthetic situation. It points at the utopian idea of time standing still, avoiding a 'processual' unfolding of music, and thus rebelling against inherited ideals of narrative fluency. Here we find two rich textural situations that do not evolve: a music of 'being' rather than 'becoming'.

Two Surfaces

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/ver/1

Pedro Alvarez
Ver (2013)
Mark Knoop, piano
Premiere at St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK on 5th Dec 2013.
www.pedroalvarez.info

The various musical situations that constitute this work are pervaded by a sense of ephemeral plenitude. By simply 'being themselves' instead of representing functional stages in ongoing processes, these situations question the idea of 'organic development' as an aesthetic model. What remains is a kind of brutal formal construction; the abrupt juxtaposition of self-enclosed blocks of dissimilar proportions. 'Ver' was written in Vienna/London in the summer/autumn of 2013.

yet the dew remains in pale (2011-12) Orchestra

2022.10
Commissioned by Huikuan Lin and Taipei C-Camerata
Composer: Chen-Hui Jen
Pipa: Huikuan Lin
Violin: Chia-Lun Chang
Recording: Chia-Lung Huang
Mastering: Jacob David Sudol

Still mountains, still... (2022)for pipa and violin

Pedro Alvarez
'Untitled on Canvas' (2011) for two baritone saxophones
Alejandro Rivas & Karem Ruiz, saxophones
Utrecht 2011
www.pedroalvarez.info

Untitled on Canvas

Score: http://bit.ly/1dQvc0n

Pedro Alvarez 
Plasmares (2014) 
commissioned by hcmf// 
Ensemble CrossingLines: 
--Laia Bobi, alto flute 
--Victor de la Rosa, clarinet 
--Tere Gómez, tenor saxophone 
--Cassiel Anton, alto trombone 
--Feliu Ribera, percussion 
--Mireia Vendrell, piano 
--Luis Codera Puzo, sine waves 
--Pedro Alvarez, e-guitar (guest) 
--Lorenzo Ferrándiz, conductor 
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2014 
www.pedroalvarez.info

Plasmares

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/interalia/1

Pedro Alvarez
'Interalia' (2010) for ensemble
Ensemble of the Orchestre National de Lorraine, cond. Jean Deroyer
Metz, France 2010
www.pedroalvarez.info

Interalia

Score: bit.ly/1LlKKFB

Pedro Alvarez
Margin (2015)
-Heather Roche, bass clarinet
-Marco Fusi, viola d'amore
-Rafał Łuc, accordion
The Riot Ensemble's 'Portfolio' concert
London, 06 June 2015
www.pedroalvarez.info

Margin

Pedro Alvarez 
New Forms of Asymmetry (2015) 
for guitar and ensemble 
Diego Castro Magas, guitar 
Ensemble Interface 
Leeds, UK, 18/11/2015 
www.pedroalvarez.info

New Forms of Asymmetry

A Sense of Space (2015/16)
for flute, guitar, and soprano with percussion – 10′

Premiere: 5 March 2016, Alba Bru Carci (flute), Diego Castro Magaš (guitar), Peyee Chen (soprano/percussion)
St. Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK.

View score -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NQqjQV-aYBRUJvi413yqjfr0LyHRS_u-/view?usp=sharing

A Sense Of Space

into silence, and keep falling (2016) cello and piano

Ensemble: 20° dans le noir （www.ensemble20degres.com）
Mastering: Jacob Sudol

until after the twilight (2017) for flute, accordion, cello, contrabass, and electronics

Chen-Hui Jen's "d'un songe" for piano and live electronics performed live by the Jen + Sudol Duo at the Chai Found 101 in Taipei, Taiwan on June 18, 2016.

Chen-Hui Jen: "d'un songe" for piano and live electronics

Performed by Unassisted Fold; Flavio Virizi (Electric Guitar) and Sonja Horlacher (Alto Flute).

Not Long But Suspended explores the concept of drowning. The use of electronics in this composition operate as a musical metaphor for this concept as the sounds of the alto flute and guitar are suspended and distorted, cascading upon one another resulting in the blending of each instrument's sonorities.

Not Long But Suspended_Live Recording

For solo electric guitar and pliers. Performed live at Future Creatives Festival. Live recording and mix by Kevan Atkins

Bloodlines

1st movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Lorikeet (Live)

5th movement of "An Australian Backyard Suite". This 6-part composition depicts various flora and fauna commonly found in Australian gardens.

The movements are:
Lorikeet
Fire Ant
Tree Fern
Blue Tongue Lizard
Cicada
Poinciana

This piece received 2nd Prize in the Franz Schubert International Composition Competition in Vienna in 2012.
It was also selected for performance by the Fresh Squeezed Opera Company in 2014.

Cicada (Live)

Also known as "Sol Tempest", if you want the more pretentious title. Written in December 2011, revised January 2012 at National Music Camp.

Summer Thunderstorm

Demo for a potential soundtrack,  featuring Tom Oliver.
Read more here: https://lifeinthelongtail.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/notes-on-concrete-wire/

Concrete And Wire 3 (wTOM's Howl)

Score: http://issuu.com/alvarezpedro/docs/fragments/1

Pedro Alvarez 
Fragments after Cioran (2011-2012)
Ensemble Interface:
--Bettina Berger, bass flute
--Andrea Nagy, clarinet
--Maiko Matsuoka, violin
--Christophe Mathias, cello
--Agnieszka Koprowska-Born, percussion
--Anna D'Errico, piano
--Scott Voules, conductor
Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland, March 2012
www.pedroalvarez.info

Fragments after Cioran

Matthias Bamert
West Australian Symphony Orchestra

This work was commissioned as an education piece, and is
designed to showcase the sections of the orchestra at the circus or at the zoo:
Brass (opening): fanfare, welcome to the circus/zoo;
Woodwinds: the monkeys;
Strings: the trapeze/the swans;
Percussion: lions and tigers;
Tutti, and brass fanfare to end.
The conductor may pause at each new section to introduce the instruments
of the orchestra, or may have the opening few bars of each section of music
played before performing the piece without pause.

Roar!

For solo soprano and SSAATTBB. Commissioned and recorded by The Australian Voices, 2012. Conducted by Gordon Hamilton.

Dedicated to William Duckworth and Jocelyn Wolfe.

Text:
DROUGHT

BY JUDITH WRIGHT

The summer solstice come and gone,
now the dark of the moon comes on.
The raging sun in his pale sky
has drunk the sap of the world dry.
Across the plains the dustwhirls run
and dust has choked the shrivelling tree.

This is my world that dies with me, 
cries the curlew in the night.
I have forgotten how the white
 birdfooted water in the creek
used in spring to call and speak.
All is fallen under the sun
and the world dies that once I made.

The strength that brandished my green blade,
the force uncoiling from the cell,
 drains like water from a wrecked well,
 says the dried out corn of the earth.
The seed I cherished finds no birth.

Now the dark of the world comes on.

Drought (choral)

Immigrant, nomad, traveller and sleepwalker. I make music too.