World premieres of Quatuor Bozzini's Composer's Kitchen 2021 residents in partnership with Gaudeamus Muziekweek Festival.

Quatuor Bozzini (Alissa Cheung, Clemens Merkel, violins; Stéphanie Bozzini, viola; Isabelle Bozzini, cello)

Sound recording: Tivoli Vredenburg
Mastering: Gabrielle Couillard

Vitali Karagkezidis - Aliens II

Le Mogli: Tiziana Bertoncini - violin, ALESSANDRA ROMBOLA - flutes
Extract of live concert at Echoraum, Wien, October 2022.

Le Mogli - live concert

Christian Wolff_Play (4th version)

Performed by the Ensemble Experimental and the SWR Experimentalstudio
conductor: Detlef Heusinger

Un/Divided (2015) - for Sextet, Contralto and Live-electronics - SWR Ensemble Experimental

Event Horizon

2014

violin, violoncello, piano, audio signal processing


Laurie Radford


pulling the light	escape velocity	redshifted	proper time	singularity

An “event horizon” is a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer…a “point of no return”… the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible…a phenomenon usually associated with black holes. The concept of energy at the horizon or the edge of our immediate grasp of time has been a motivating interest in a number of my compositional projects in recent years. It continues to provide impetus to explore movement, speed, transformation and process in many aspects of my music. In Event Horizon, various components of the phenomenon provide conceptual points of departure for each of the sections of the piece. The audio signal processing of the violin, violoncello and piano extends the exploration of both sound and time to the spatial and spectral attributes of the listening experience.

Event Horizon (violin, violoncello, piano, live electronics)

Diptych: 
Irène’s lament-Auguste’s grief
for Video and Chamber Ensemble of fourteen players
composed for Wet Ink Ensemble
Premiered on: April 25, 2015
DiMenna Center, New York
Instrumentation: Flute (Piccolo), Oboe, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Keyboard (Samples), Harp, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass

https://vimeo.com/129328696

Diptych - Irène’s Lament - Auguste’s Grief (2015) - Ashkan Behzadi

Premiered by Montreal’s Quatuor Bozzini on 14th Nov., 2015. Co-presented by Blue Moss Ensemble and the Music Gallery with the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

Program Note: Scientists have recently revealed that a species of moth in the Kirindy forest of Madagascar drinks tears from the eyes of birds. Birds can usually fly away from these predators, but not while sleeping. The Madagascan moths were observed on the necks of sleeping magpie robins and Newtonia birds, with the tip of their proboscises inserted under the bird’s eyelid, drinking avidly. Sleeping birds have two eyelids, both closed. So instead of the soft, straw-like mouthparts found on tear-drinking moths elsewhere, the Madagascan moth has a proboscis “shaped like an ancient harpoon,” with hooks and barbs. It is inserted under the eyelid where the barbs are used to anchor it in place. The team does not yet know whether the insect spits out an anaesthetic to dull the irritation. They also want to investigate whether, like their counterparts elsewhere, the Madagascan tear-drinkers are all males who get most of their nutrition from the tears. (Deborah MacKenzie)

Moths Drink the Tears of Sleeping Birds

Quatuor Bozzini performing live at the Music Gallery
Blue Moss Ensemble concert, Saturday November 14, 2015
Toronto ON Canada

gather (2015)

Quatuor à cordes de musique nouvelle, expérimentale et classique. String quartet of new, experimental, and classical music.

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