for flute, baritone saxophone, violin, double bass, piano and percussion

since the descent from the mother's womb
all the failures
in prison the effort to show up at the wrong moments, 
can not be restrained. 
variable intensity 
calm, light 
tons heavy, painful 
big hills 
small mountaineers
that comes up from accustom to confusion. 
clinging to three days of calm
between two riots 
who will be and who will die 
understands these days that easy fails to exist
Dilay Doğanay

Performed by Ensemble Suono Giallo

http://www.ensemblesuonogiallo.com/

Andrea Biagini - flute
Michele Bianchini - saxophone
Chiara Franceschini - violin
Gianni Maestrucci - percussion
Simone Nocchi - piano
Giacomo Piermatti - double bass

Recorded and mixed by David Giacchè

The piece written for and premiered at the context of the 5th edition of the ilSUONO Contemporary Music Week.
www.ilsuonoacademy.com 

Artwork: In my Womb by Kavita Nayar

wisdom tooth, for six musicians (2021)

for violin, viola, re-embodied cello and electronics.

"fate(un)strung" was possible thanks to the support of Edmund Campion, Jeremy Wagner, Carmine Emanuele-Cella, Jean Geoffroy and the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. ​

Written for and premiered by members of Eco Ensemble as part of the CNMAT/CNSMDL collaborative concert (https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/events/concert-cnmatcnsmdl)

Premiere Info:
Hrabba Atladottir, violin and prepared cello
Ellen Ruth Rose, viola and prepared cello
Electronics (Max/MSP patch) performed by the composer.

Recorded by Jeremy Wagner @ Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley, California/USA, December 2021.

*good quality headphones or loudspeakers are recommended*

fate(un)strung [2021]

diaphanous lies
[...and she tugged the curtains shut—as if the frail sheer fabric could somehow shield us from oblivion]

When no relying matter could shelter its nuances,
a flattening will erase all material vicissitudes.
Frail images, simulations, and plasticity.

Tort, ruse or feint.
Its tyrannizing lies are nevertheless unfailing.

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electroacoustic composition - stereo audio


*This piece has a wide dynamic range, it is advised to be careful with the levels. Good quality headphones or loudspeakers are also recommended*

diaphanous lies [2022]

Ensemble Resilience live from Gaudeamus festival, Utrecht, NL
11th September 2022

Younan's Journey for ensemble and electronics (2022)

Ensemble Dal Niente
for Large Ensemble and Electronics 2023
Michael Lewanski, conductor

Toxic Positivity for large ensemble and electronics (2023)

With the support of ENOA, European Network of Opera AcademiesCo-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Dutch National Opera
Marcel Beekman, soloist
Sinan Vural, soloist
Emma Roijackers, violin
Tara Kumar, cello

Markéta Palová, soprano
Fran van Lysebettens, alto
Edmond Chu, tenor
Fernando Linares Correa

"Zeki" Opera Project (2023)

Marcel Beekman Soloist
Dutch National Opera
With the support of ENOA, European Network of Opera AcademiesCo-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Manolyam Aria from Zeki Opera Project (2023)

Widerklang for bass-clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello
l'instant donné

premiere recording from Festival Musica
Strasbourg, France

Widerklang for 5 performers (2

Widerklang for 5 performers

Lug - revised version performed by the Eco Ensemble (David Milnes, director) 
February 3 2018, Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, California
Stacey Pelinka - flute, Jeff Anderle - clarinet, Loren Mach - percussion, Allegra Chapman - piano, Hrabba Altadottir - violin, Julie Michael - viola, Helen Newby - cello

Lug was commissioned and premiered by Vertixe Sonora
17 October 2017 CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela
Music and Art: Sound Correpondences 2017

VERTIXE SONORA
Clara Saleiro - flute / Pablo Coello - saxophone / Roberto Alonso - violin / Lorena García - viola / Thomas Piel - cello / David Durán - piano / Diego Ventoso - percussion

Lug (2017) - Revised Version

Her Majesty the Fool (2020)
by Oren Boneh
Fanny Vicens, XAMP mictrotonal accordion and electronics

For the video: https://youtu.be/hagaxRg15FE

Composed for Fanny Vicens for premiere at Festival Manifeste IRCAM 2020
Special thanks to Grégoire Lorieux, Thierry De Mey, and the IRCAM Pedagogical Team.
Filmed at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Video production: Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti

Her Majesty the Fool (2020) - for accordion and electronics

Scrape for string Quartet 2020

Honored with 2021 Fromm Commissioning Award from Harvard University, MacADowell Fellowship, Salvatore Martirano Composition Award, Ettelson Composer’s Award, Chamber Music of California’s »California Prize«, and Nicola de Lorenzo Prize (three times), Selim Göncü aims to create a personal balance of contrasting polarities in his music. Raw gestures are contrasted with transparent textures, elegant timbres are interrupted/combined with abrupt impulses, obsessively-mechanical loops are interpolated with freely flowing improvisations.

His works have been performed by acclaimed ensembles including Ensemble InterContemporain, L’Instant Donné, Ensemble Proton Bern, Ensemble Échappé, Quatuor Tana, Stadler Quartett, East Coast Chamber Ensemble and Alarm Will Sound in festivals such as ManiFeste, Festival Musica, Firenze Suona Contemporanea, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and Missouri International Composers Festival.

Selim graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with the highest distinction and currently continues his doctoral studies in composition at University of California, Berkeley. His primary teachers are Franck Bedrossian, Clemens Gadenstätter and Edmund Campion.

He currently is Composer-in-Residence of New York based new music sinfonietta Ensemble Échappé and is contributing director of sfSound.

Widerklang for 5 performers

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