so much fun ! brilliant orchestration ! you have a great sense of humor :)

Shacharit (2020) שחרית
by Udi Perlman (b. 1990)

* World Premiere Recording *

| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Udi Perlman: Shacharit | Hagai Yodan, piano

Live recording from the premiere 28.08.2021 in Grieghallen, Bergen. 
BIT20 Ensemble and conductor Christian Karlsen.

Swiveling in a Flexible Unison (2021)

'Dormientes Bestia' - 'sleeping beast'. This piece was written with the image of a mythological-esque, female/beast hybrid in mind, focusing on the passage of breath and air through the lungs of the performer and out through the instrument. It expresses femininity in an honest way - women can be scary and fierce, too. Wake her at your peril.

For great bass paetzold, and tape.

Dormientes Bestia

Fugue

This piece was written for the Ligeti Quartet for their project at the Centre for New Music at Sheffield, supported by Arts Council England.


workshop recording

Samoyeds

Happy Birthday Beethoven

Performed at Aspen Music Festival 2019
Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
Piotr Waclawik - Conductor


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A Rube Goldberg Machine, is a machine that achieves trivial tasks through an overly inefficient and convoluted process. 

You may have seen “the marble rolling down a track to topple a domino piece that hits a lighter that lights a candle that burns a thread that releases a lever that...” well, you get the point. And all for what? To have the machine finally add some salt to a dish or perform some other trivial task; a task that clearly could have been achieved in a much more straight-forward manner.
 
It’s the complex and innovative way such a machine works, that gives it its raison d’etre. The machine stops being about the outcome, and instead lets us focus on the way that outcome is achieved. Often, the more elaborate, clever, and creative the machine is, the more we enjoy seeing it do its magic. 

It occurred to me that our music is also kind of a Rube Goldberg Machine. On the surface it appears as if the goal is to move from 
dominant to tonic, or from tension to release. Yet, a cadence on its own is hardly a piece. And so, composers find elaborate, clever, and creative manners to get from tension to release, making the process intentionally inefficient for the sake of that journey. A journey that may include twists and turns, and marbles and levers, 
and... you name it. 
 
This is my machine.

A Rube Goldberg Machine

«Paroxismos» (2019) [live performance]
mosaic on violence for chamber ensemble

Written for and performed by Sound Icon.
Commissioned by SCI/ASCAP

Audio editing, mixing and mastering: Felipe Tovar-Henao

March 29, 2019.
@ 2019 SCI National Conference
University of New México
Albuquerque, NM - USA

Official website: www.felipe-tovar-henao.com
Soundcloud: @felipetovarhenao
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/felipe.tovar.henao/

«Paroxismos» (2019) mosaic on violence for chamber ensemble

In recent years I noticed I was anchoring my identity in being “for” or “against” something. I realized I didn’t want to stay in that meaningless corner and felt a need to rebel, mostly against my own habits. “Birds” is the first single out from my album called “Meri” (out in September). This album is an exploration of Love as a form of rebellion. Stay safe <3

http://smarturl.it/omerbirds

Birds

the Sea They Think They Hear
for soprano, flute, harp, piano, violin, viola and violoncello | 2021

Written for and performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble and Gelsey Bell
Recorded at Scholes Street Studio
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak

Text

The ocean, deep blue-green.
What we learn in the middle of the night is that the world makes us flinch. (Michel Serres, The Five Senses: Philosophy of Mingled Bodies)
Sounds an ocean, drinks it in.

Then everything became worse for the wear, damaged, used and used-up and ultimately destroyed.
More and more I made up for what was lost, I slowly improved myself, and I considered myself healed. (Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina)

I found myself trapped in a nightmare, standing alone at the sea. Everyday becoming more and more.
White and yellow and gray and horizonless. (Tove Jansson, The Summer Book)

the Sea They Think They Hear (2021)

https://www.stefanogervasoni.net/index.asp?page=catalogue&id=129

for: large ensemble
detailed instrumentation: flute (also G-flute), oboe (also English horn), clarinet in B flat (also bass clarinet), bassoon (also contrabassoon), horn in F, trumpet in B flat (also piccolo trumpet in B flat), trombone, percussion I, percussion II, harp, piano (also celesta - five octaves), violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, double-bass (five strings)
duration: 21'
commission: Ensemble InterContemporain
first performance: 4.9.20, Paris, La Scala, Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
publisher: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
catalogue number: S. 16215 Z.

Eufaunique - 1st and 2nd part - Ensemble InterContemporain, M. Pintscher -  live. Paris 3.9.20

Native of Israel, Seltenreich has been performed by some of the world’s leading orchestras and ensembles, among them The Tokyo Philharmonic, The Israel Philharmonic, The Israeli Opera, and the Talea Ensemble. 
He has recently been commission by the Messiaen Festival in France, he has been offered a fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival (2016), and was invited to the soundSCAPE Music Festival in Italy (2016). Seltenreich was selected as an Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts’ residency with Georg Friedrich Haas (2016).  Seltenreich is the recipient of several domestic and international awards and is the youngest composer ever to be awarded the 1st prize in the Salvatore Martirano Composition Competition. Other distinctions include the Arthur Friedman prize for “an outstanding orchestral work” (2015) and the Frank Robert Abell Young Composer Competition for New Chamber Music (2015).
Seltenreich completed his Bachelor’s degree in music composition at Tel-Aviv University; and his Master’s degree at The Juilliard School in New York city under the direction of Matthias Pintscher.


A Rube Goldberg Machine

Michael Seltenreich - Composer

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