Grain | Stream
for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists & electronics

Première:
October 22nd, 2023 - Donaueschinger Musiktage 

Performers:
Yarn/Wire
Russell Greenberg, Sae Hashimoto (Percussion)
Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer (Klavier)

The idea of stream recalled in the title and central in the piece has been inspired by Anselm Kiefer’s painting Alchemie consists of two canvases showing a dry desert-like landscape connected by a balance. A rainfall of salt and sunflower seeds falling down from the balance’s dishes. 
That’s a strong symbol of a possible new life re-growing from the desert landscape which is directly connected with the art of alchemy transforming lead into gold.


On the other hand streams of grains (especially salt) are traditionally associated with purification rituals of mind and spirit.
Driven by the strong symbolic meaning of this canvas and the message of hope that it conveys to me, I imagined a sound-world made of grains and streams which arise from silence and saturate space and time until leading the perception to an in-between dimension where temporal references are loosen.

Grain I Stream

for microtonal accordion (XAMP)and live electronics,
recorded on 15/04/2016 at Centre Pompidou,
Jean-Etienne Sotty, accordion

Con Moto

Wasteland_apparent emptiness
for ensemble
Commissioned by ensemble proton bern

ensemble proton bern
Mathias Kuhn, dir.

"Approaching the matter until the borders disappear is like going into a continuum that seems not to know anymore (or yet) distinctions, separations. In the vertigo of indistinctness, hands, eyes and ears strive to identify relations in order to divide the matter and bring it back to a more human, finite dimension.
Touching, seeing, listening become the way to know and recognize at the same time, to give a name and a place to things. But these things change for constant interaction, so the attempt to frame the universe around us becomes imposition of form, establishment of relations.
Musical form as the process of its own creation".

score published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-Sugarmusic S.p.A.

Wasteland_apparent emptiness (2017) [use headphones!]

Bian Zhou II - Floating Market 
扁舟（二）海上市集
Premiered by Atlas Ensemble during 2017 Taipei Innovative Series
Conductor: Artyom Kim

Bian Zhou II (Excerpt) 扁舟（二）- 海上市集

for two voices, flute, harp, piano, violin and live electronics (2013)
patch programming - Alexei Nadjarov
performed by Nadar Ensemble

The little match girls (unsung Candlejack's songs)

exouda II (2020)
For snare drum, coils system and live electronics.

Incó_ntemporanea Festival October 10th, 2020 // Duo Dubois
Federico Tramontana - Snare drum
Alberto Cavallaro - Coils system

exouda II (for snare drum, coils system and live-electronics)

Composer from Taiwan, now based in New York City

Bian Zhou II (Excerpt) 扁舟（二）- 海上市集

張玹 Shiuan Chang