A little something I wrote in 2016, during three snow days in Ramallah

CHAMBER CONCERTO for Horn and Percussion is, in the opinion of professionals, one of the finest achievements of Badian’s first period, and a revolutionary composition in 1976. This composition incorporates a series of accomplishments through experiments and musical technologies: The piece has the character of a conversation between two personalities represented by the Horn and the Percussion. It is scored for horn and 21 percussion instruments (one percussionist). Its triadic structure implies some rhetorical procedures.

MUSIC FOR ARCHAEUS

Chamber Concerto for Horn and Percussion by Maya Badian

لِىَ فيكى يَا اِرْضَ الْحجَّازَ حبيبُ | طه الفشني

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La langue des gargouilles (2023) by Sara Cubarsi 
for natural horn, electric keyboard, prepared piano, and gong

premièred at the Lucerne Festival 2023
commission by the I&I foundation
dedicated to Ben and Richard

La langue des gargouilles

كلماتٌ على حدِّ السخرية، وموسيقى على حدِّ المفارقة؛ معاً في مشروع غنائي موسيقي يضم تسع أغنيات، تخدش الراكد والساكن فينا، وتقلبُ ما اعتقدنا بأنه قائم، ترسمُ خربشاتٍ على جدار العقل وتَخُطِّ نشازاً على سطوح القلب، ربما حينها يستقيم معنى وينفلت خيال من عقاله... مشروع من إنتاج فرقة الفنون الشعبية الفلسطينية، يقوم على استضافة خاصة لمجموعة من المغنين والمغنيات والموسيقيين والموسيقيات في عمل يقوم على نصوص الشاعر وسيم الكردي وتوزيع موسيقي للفنان يعقوب حمودة

يا حزن - كلمات: وسيم الكردي - ألحان: محمود عوض - غناء: ميرا أبو هلال

sc wrec v2.2

16 players & fixed media
fl(=picc & alto).ob.cl.bsn(=cbsn) – perc(2) – pno(=cel) – hp – str: 1.1.1.1.1
20′
2024

Immense Bleak Electric Advertisement of God has not yet been publicly performed, but was workshopped by Octandre Ensemble with the help of artistic directors Jon Hargreaves and Christian Mason and the musicians listed below.

RECORDING
From a workshop by Octandre Ensemble, Milton Court Concert Hall, September 2024

MUSICIANS
Cond: Jon Hargreaves

Flute: Noemi Gyori
Oboe: Anna Durance
Clarinet: Adam Slater
Bassoon: Patrick Bolton

Horn: Julian Faultless
Trumpet: Shane Brennan
Trombone: Raph Clarkson

Percussion 1: Calum Huggan
Percussion 2: Angela Wai Nok Hui

Harp: Anneke Hodnett

Piano: Jo Havlat

Vn I: Mandhira de Saram
Vn II: Rosie Kennally
Va: Chihiro Ono
Vc: Corentin Chassard
Cb: Rosie Moon

Immense Bleak Electric Advertisement of God

Recorded Live at Birzeit University
2021
Composer & Arranger- Tareq Abboushi
Conductor- Suhail Khoury
Audio Engineer- Ehab Haniyeh

Nuzha Fil Thakira - نزهة في الذاكرة

Fotis Athanasiou: Vocals,Ukulele
Thanasis Makos: percussion (daouli)
Spiros Mastoras: Double Bass
Vasilis Antonopoulos:El.Guitar
Nikos Mpakopoulos: Alto Sax
Manos Xronopoulos: Trumpet

-Live Studio Recording at Ιλιον Plus 
 By George Hatzipolixronis & Nikos Dimitrakakos
 on April 5th 2016
-Mixed and Mastered by Vasilis Antonopoulos
-Artwork by Susami

  Special thanks and big love to all of our close friends,sound   engineers,photographer,video artist,Artwork designers who helped  (y)our  first Album to be now in our hands !
 And we really want to thank all these beautiful people  who like and  support our music, showing up and partying all night in our concerts,
sharing all these unique emotions with us.

 You are our Inspiration !

5. Karakedi    Muchatrela Band

2007
performed by Aggeliki Poulimenou - horn and Nilgun Yuksel - violin

Escape

Iannis Xenakis: ”…I think that the music that I write is not important for most of the people. It is like an island. …maybe after my death [people] will be more interested in what I have done during my life. But that is not a problem because I cannot do anything else. I am writing music…”

Nisi was composed for hornist Adam Unsworth, motivated by his highly personal approach to the horn. It is dedicated to composer Iannis Xenakis to commemorate his 90th birthday (May 29th, 2012), inspired by Xenakis’s singular spirit, his totally unique sonic palette, and the uncompromisingness of his ideas. Xenakis truly was and is a musical island unto himself. It’s materials are drawn from several of Xenakis’s works, notably Eonta (1963-64), Anaktoria (1969), and N’Shima (1975).

All of the electronic sounds of for Nisi are drawn from horns, in most cases from Unsworth’s own instrument(s)–recorded together at Cornell University in 2011 and 2012–with the exception of several “vocal” sounds derived from the sung text, “in vanum laboraverunt” (“labor in vain”) from Claudio Monteverdi’s Nisi Dominus (from Venetian Vespers, 1610) that appear in the last coda.

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