https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzjBfS4WWmI

transit/waves - miniature for processed string orchestra and video

recording by the New York Youth Symphony, conducted by JD Gersen (Assistant Conductor, New York Philharmonic)
video filmed on a megabus from Philadelphia to New York City

transit/waves (2016)

Motion is a work for Piano & Vibraphone.

Piano - Phoebe Wu
Vibraphone - Andrew Grossman

Produced and Engineered by Sly Pup Productions (Ann Arbor, MI)
Additional mastering by Sebastian Zel & Ezequiel Viñao.

motion - II. in Waves

motion - I. in Spirals

Antagonisms - i. "you should talk to somebody"

"Antagonisms" is an ongoing series of works for mixed ensembles, each reflecting on a set of opposites.

"you should talk to somebody" is a reflection on persistent anxiety, and the relationship between psychological clarity and lack thereof.

Recorded at NYU Steinhardt, November 28th, 2017.
Engineered by Julian Vanasse
Mixed by Kerim Wilhelm and Sebastian Zel

Performed by:
Robert Kahn - Conductor
Elle Foster - Clarinet
Anthony Ferrara - Tenor Saxophone
Katianna Zaffery - Bass Clarinet
Justin Ambrozia - Horn
Ivan Schmichkinney - Trombone
Georgia Mills - Piano
Theo Braun - Electric Guitar
Nicholas Gigante - Percussion
Christian Melhado - Percussion
Zoe Dweck - Violin
Harper Randolph - Viola
Tyler James - Cello
Ollie Bomann - Electric Bass

Antagonisms - i. "you should talk to somebody"

"fold" for jazz octet, premiered at Sebastian Zel's senior recital on April 14th, 2018, in room 303 at NYU Steinhardt.

Rohan Chander - Alto Sax
Anthony Ferrara - Tenor Sax
Gabe Fraivillig - Trombone
Noah Hadland - Vibraphone
Peter Enriquez - Guitar
Yuuji Mitsuta - Piano
Sebastian Zel - Bass
Loren Wallace - Drums

fold (2018) - live

Georgia Mills - Piano
Kevin Zetina - Percussion
Jay Sorce - Electric Guitar
Cole Bartels - Trombone
Katherine Ambrester - Soprano
Daniel Fawcett - Live Electronics

"in it & out of" is a work commissioned by the 2018 Nief-Norf Summer Festival in Knoxville TN, premiered on June 22, 2018. "in it & out of" is a work based on text from Yaz Lancaster's poem "clocks". The text makes observations about various phenomena in the natural world, and the ways in which our relationships to them are influenced by the passage of time. Similarly, "in it & out of" is built primarily of four consecutive miniatures, one for each of the phenomena described in the text. The entire sequence miniatures is bookended by flash-forward and flash-back versions of itself, contextualizing each texture and its handling of the passage of time with that of the others, realizing the text’s observation of phenomena moving “in” and “out” of time.

in it & out of (Live at Nief-Norf)

he, as man, with man, conversing, below


composed for entrance composition challenge for the M.M. in classical composition for the manhattan school of music

conversing below

Composer of concert music, film/multi-media scorer, producer, multi-instrumentalist

sebastianzelmusic@gmail.com for inquiries, commissions, production, or scoring work

Sebastian Zel

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