This is the ambient version of Voice. The piece is created from a flute improvisation loaded in a QU-Bit nebulae buffer combined with a voice like electronic texture from the Moog Mother-32 and granular delay algorithm of the Erica Synth Pico DSP. The plucking sound is produced with the frequency modulation (FM) model of the Mutable Instruments Plaits module.

There is a companion video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/jeLe4VvXlns

Ambient Voice

Léo Margue, direction

Flûte, Emmanuelle Ophèle
Clarinette, Jérôme Comte
Percussion 1, Gilles Durot
Percussion 2, Samuel Favre
Harpe,  Valeria Kafelnikov
Piano, Fernando Palomeque
Violon, Diégo Tosi
Alto,  Odile Auboin
Violoncelle, Éric-Maria Couturier
Contrebasse, Jules Bauer

Heterotopia I - Ensemble Intercontemporain

microcosm

unholiness

perf. by London sinfonietta, cond. Jack Sheen. 2nd of December 2022, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank center, London (UK)

"To dream is to forget.." - Fernando Pessoa. The Book of Disquiet

"I’ve been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it…" Morton Feldman, 1982

Co-commissioned by and written for Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta and Remix Ensemble

Cyclically floating between different phases of density and intensity, minor and major, slowing or accelerating waves, the piece is woven from hypnotically repetitive patterns of 7 slightly different tempos which intertwine through 16 lines of the ensemble conceived as a complex human body with regular breathing, heart beating, eye movements, blood flow etc., all happening at the same time but not synchronised.

The title “Sleeping Patterns” refers to the brain wave oscillations through different sleep stages as well as to the Morton Feldman’s question “Why Patterns?”

Duration: 20’

Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, hn, tbn, acc, kbd, 2 vibr, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb

© Éditions Salabert/Universal Music Publishing Classical

"Sleeping patterns" for ensemble (2022), London sinfonietta (excerpt)

Morning Solace was inspired by the haiku by Andrea Cecon. 

morning solace
the silence
of apple blossoms

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveller, a haijin published all over the world, and also an ebook apprentice. His first ebook won 3rd place in Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life.

Morning Solace Seas was written for Violin, Viola, Cello String Bass, Flute, Clarinet, Horn, Trombone, Cymbals, Gong and Piano.

The score is available at https://bit.ly/MorningSolace

Morning Solace

I've already posted a downloadable excerpt from this recording, which is of the only performance so far of this piece (in February 2005, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tadaaki Otaka). Here it is in its entirety. I hope I won't get into trouble for posting it but how else is anyone going to hear this music? which was presumably the idea behind commissioning and performing it...

NO (2004) for orchestra

Concerto for Violin Solo and Orchestra

Recording performed by ORF Wien Modern, Carolin Widmann and Sylvain Camberling

First performed at Darmstadt Summer Course 14. August 2016, Radial System Berlin and Weimar Festspiel by Carolin Widmann, Sylvain Cambreling, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and dancers from Sasha Waltz and Guests. 
Choreography by Antonio Rúz.

https://issuu.com/editionpeters/docs/ep_12015r__rebecca_saunders__still_

Still (2011)

Stocastic4

for Soprano and Bass Flute
First performed and recorded by Juliet Fraser and Helen Bledsoe May 2018 at The Gaol, Louth Ireland.

O Yes & I (2017)

"Espejos" (obra realizada con el apoyo del Fondo Nacional de las Artes)

(Eva García Fernández -2020-)

para flauta, clarinete bajo, piano, guitarra eléctrica, violín, cello, vibráfono y batería.

Concierto - Entre Huellas Sonoras - Radio CASo (Noviembre 2020)

Ensamble Tropi

Flauta: Sebastián Tellado
Clarinete bajo: Constancia Moroni
Piano: Malena Levin
Guitarra Eléctrica: Manuel Moreno
Violín: Florencia Ciaffone
Cello: Alejandro Becerra
Vibráfono y batería: Juan Denari

Dirección: Haydée Schvartz

Si la obra quiere ser espejo del texto, entonces la presencia del texto en la música no puede sino tener la estructura de una ausencia.

Espejos aborda el vínculo entre texto y música incluyendo dentro de su construcción estructural el concepto central de dos poesías concretas de Octavio Armand, concepto que está íntimamente ligado al funcionamiento del lenguaje; este concepto es el de presencia-ausencia. Para dar cuenta de este concepto la obra utiliza una metodología que se basa fundamentalmente en la ausencia de la materialidad del texto, lo cual da lugar a la presencia de un nuevo material (sonido) que funciona como suplemento; de esta manera la obra devuelve una re-presentación sonora de la estructura formal de las poesías, pero despojada de su materialidad textual original.

Espejos

Espejos - para ensamble pierrot, guitarra eléctrica, vibráfono y batería - (2020)

Berlin-based British composer
www.rebeccasaunders.net

Still (2011)

Rebecca Saunders

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