excerpt of "the artists meeting" (2014-16)
composition with spoken voice for 13 loudspeakers 
duration of the full version: 22'35''

RELEASE
Während des Plenums der Jungen Akademie aufgenommene Stimmen von KünstlerInnen verschiedener Sparten wurden zu einer einzigen Stimme collagiert, teilweise als reines Klang-Erleben, teilweise mit semantischen Bedeutungen, wobei beide Bereiche ineinander übergehen – für mich eine würdige Art, über/durch Kunst zu kommunizieren. Ich suche einen (musikalischen-)gesprochenen Text zu schaffen, der zeigt, was Musik sein kann.

INFOS
Konzept, Komposition, Editing/Mixing: Rafael Nassif
Elektronische Realisation der Fassung als Klanginstallation:
Studio für elektroakustische Musik der Akademie der Künste- Berlin; Leiter des E-Studios: Gregorio Karman

Stimmen: StipendiatInnen der Jungen Akademie 2014/AdK Berlin – und Christian Schneegass

Klaus Kleine, Bildhauer (Deutschland, spricht auf Englisch)
Dominik Lang, Bildhauer (Tschechien, spricht auf Englisch)
Hye Kyoung Kwon, Malerin (Südkorea , spricht auf Deutsch)
Tatsuya Kawahara, Architekt (Japan, spricht auf Englisch)
Dirk Peißl, Architekt (Deutschland, spricht auf Englisch)
Neele Hülcker, Komponistin/Performerin (Deutschland, spricht auf Deutsch)
Rafael Nassif, Komponist/Performer (Brasilien, spricht auf Deutsch)
Özlem Alkış, Tänzerin/Choreographin (Türkei, spricht auf Englisch)
Stella Christodoulopoulo, Darstellerin (Griechenland, spricht auf Englisch)
Pary El-Qalqili, Filmregisseurin (Deutschland, spricht auf Deutsch)
Ron Segal, Autor/Regisseur (Israel, spricht auf Englisch)
Andrzej Tichý, Autor (Tschechien/Schweden, spricht auf Englisch)
(Christian Schneegass, Leiter der Jungen Akademie/AdK; Deutschland, spricht auf Deutsch)

the artists meeting (excerpt)

A quintet for reed instruments: 
oboe, clarinet, sax, bass clarinet, and bassoon.

Composed 2021-22.

The piece consists of 5 "choirs" whose sequence can be determined by the musicians.

Commission and premiere by the Vienna Reed Quintet from October 2022 | CERCLE concert series.

Guru Rinpoche Litany

MĀRĪCĪ
for 2 bass-clarinetists
with recorded whispered mantras to be played on their own mobile phones, playing their instruments at the opposite sides of the performance space

by Rafael Nassif, 2021-22

dress rehearsal recording by Viennese duo Stump-Linshalm, St. Ruprecht Church, Vienna, May 2022

the picture from the goddess MĀRĪCĪ ("rays of light") is a painting based on the visionary experience of the Tibetan master Shar Khentrul Rinpoche 

[MĀRĪCĪ ("rays of light" in Sanskrit, a.k.a. Marīci — the 'tenuto' symbol means a long vowel), in the context of the Buddhist teachings, is considered to be a manifestation of the compassionate goddess Tārā; she is capable of the impossible because of her unbiased love toward all beings; she can manifest between humans, pretending she would be an ordinary being, when doing this can bring benefit to those in need; her manifestations are numberless and not fixed to form and space]

MĀRĪCĪ

"silhuetas de uma dança imaginária" for guitar quartet by
Rafael Nassif (2009-10); audio documentation from a rehearsal with the CORDA NOVA guitar quartet.

"silhuetas de uma dança imaginária"

"esboço de monumento" for 17 winds (and optional percussion) by Rafael Nassif (2011-12). Audio documentation of the German première by the "echtZeitEnsemble" - Stuttgart, conductor: CMLöser.

"esboço de monumento"

KARUNA - for a trio around one listener (2014-17)
played by SNIM-Wien:
Gabriele Teufner, Altflöte
Laura Pudelek, Violoncello
Peer Ebner, Kontrabaß

KARUNA

documentation of the premiere in March 2019, Tokyo, by PHIDIAS ensemble (Violin: Maiko Matsuoka, Clarinets: Ryuta Iwase), support by SKE-fonds.at

''Why? Because the meaning of the expanse of reality in which the myriad has a single taste is that the names are myriad but the meaning has a single taste, and that the aspects are myriad but the essence has a single taste.'' (DOLPOPA:'''The Great Calculation of the Doctrine Which Has the Significance of a Fourth Council'')

SAME TASTE

Title and 'lyrics' are the six-syllable mantra of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.

Documentation of the premiére in the summer 2019 at "die Datscha" (Gültlingen). The instrumentation is not exactly determined, arrangement of this performance: male voices, historic positive organ, crystal glasses, sax alto, self-made bowed lute.

Composers ensemble of the 'sommer in der datscha', a yearly international forum for music in just intonation('die Datscha', Gültlingen-Wildberg, Germany):
Richard Spaeth, Wolfram Oettl, Antonio della Marina and Rafael Nassif.

Composition supported by Bundeskanzleramt Österreich & SKE (www.ske-fonds.at)

OM MANIPADME HUM

live performance at Sala Sergio Magnani, Belo Horizonte, 2005,
coro masculino UFMG: 
Stanley Levi, Willsterman Sottani Netto, Cláudio Lage,
Endrigo de Freitas, Caíque Cerri (solista),
André Brant, Nino Coutinho, Alexandre Guimarães,
regência: Oiliam Lanna

hip! hip! hoover! (2004)

*binaural recording - hear to it with earphones!

"eu gostaria de ouvir / ich wuerde es gerne hoeren" (2014)
para vozes em movimento 
für sich im Raum bewegende Stimmen

Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks

by Rafael Nassif, documentation of the premiére in Kunstmuseum Stuttgart by members of the SWR-Vokalensemble and guests:
Johanna Zimmer, Semi Kim, Ulrike Becker,
Hubert Mayer, Frank Bossert, Hitoshi Tamada

binaural recording by Juan Camillo Vásquez

"eu gostaria de ouvir / ich wuerde es gerne hoeren"

Brazilian composer based in Austria, whose work concentrates on timbric and spatial aspects. In his teenage years he studied composition informally with Almeida Prado and Marlos Nobre. Later Nassif received his Bachelor's degree in Composition at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2003-7, class of Oiliam Lanna and Sérgio Freire) and Master's degree from the State University of Music and Performing Arts of Stuttgart (2009-12, class of Caspar Johannes Walter; seminars on Sonology with Oliver Schneller and Marco Stroppa); at the same University he concluded in 2014 with honor the Konzertexamen in Composition, last musical degree in Germany. He also carried out studies in the Alexander Technique (and the musical phenomenon) with Ilan Sebastian Grabe. Master-classes at international festivals include among others Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Kaija Saariaho, Beat Furrer, George Aperghis and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Nassif's music has been played and recorded worldwide; in 2013 his portrait CD "musica d'incanto" was published in Brazil. He has also received various awards for his works, among them first prizes in events such as the Irino Prize 2011 (Tokyo) and the BMI Student Composer Awards 2009 (NY), as well as commissions (among others from the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, CordaNova guitar quartet, ensemble cross.art, SWR-Vokalensemble). In Germany he received in 2013 the "Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis" on the SWR-Donaueschinger Musiktage; in 2014 a composer's fellowship from the BW-Kunststiftung and from the Akademie der Künste-Berlin. In 2015 he has obtained the "Kunstpreis Berlin" in the AdK and for the second time the Irino Prize (for "musica d'incanto").

Nassif is active in the multiple capacities of composer, interpreter/performer (piano, ad-hoc) and curator/organizer of concerts. In partnership with several musicians, he has organized and participated in an extensive number of concerts in the cities where he has resided, such as the contemporary music series 'eu gostaria de ouvir' (Belo Horizonte, 2008-12). His varied parallel interests (Experimental Art, Philosophy, Meditation, Pranayama and others) reverberate in his recent works.

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