With best wishes and congratulations! Played on the Offenbach.

The Journey From Balbirnie - Chords

Premiered by Klangforum Wien, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke
2 August 2023, impuls Festival, Helmut List Halle, Graz

Commissioned by impuls

Produced by ORF/Radio Österreich 1

Go To The Ant (2023) - for 15 instruments

La voix du trait (2024), movements II-III (excerpt)
Commissioned by Ensemble Fractales

Premiered on 15 March 2024, Le Senghor, Brussels

Renata Karambova, flutes
Dries Tack, clarinets
Gian Ponte, piano
Marion Borgel, violin
Merryl Havard, cello 

https://www.ensemblefractales.com/

La voix du trait (2023-24), movements 2-3 (excerpt/extrait)

La voix du trait (2024), movements IV-V (excerpt)
Commissioned by Ensemble Fractales

Premiered on 15 March 2024, Le Senghor, Brussels

Renata Karambova, flutes
Dries Tack, clarinets
Gian Ponte, piano
Marion Borgel, violin
Merryl Havard, cello

www.ensemblefractales.com/

La voix du trait (2023-24), movements 4-5 (excerpt/extrait)

FOREVER WAITING...
[created for the Words on Music course with Kate Molleson and Peter Meanwell at the Darmstadt Summer Course 2023]

A tram ride to Darmstadt’s Lichtenbergschule turns into a journey of reflecting how passports control one’s mobility. An encounter with Filipino visitors, weekly protests at Luisenplatz on Iran’s atrocities, and flipping passport pages disrupt a daily life of church bells, audible traffic lights, and utility shortwave transmissions – Cedrik Fermont likewise tells stories that challenge assumptions about how we know the world. The tram ride stops midway, migrants reach the border. They are left waiting if they can pass through...

Languyin mo ang ilog;
Magilas ang kabayong hubad!
Naghihintay sa wala.

(Swim by the river;
The naked stallion shows off!
Waiting for nothing.)

Credits:

Cedrik Fermont – narration
Juro Kim Feliz – Tagalog haiku

Additional recordings:
Frau Leben Freiheit protest on 16 August 2023 at Luisenplatz, Darmstadt
conversation with anonymous Filipino couple

ewig warten… (forever waiting…) [2023]

Oren Boneh - Als ich tot war (2024-25)
Original music for 8 instruments and electronics composed for Ernst Lubitsch's silent film Als ich tot war (1916)
Commissioned by Ensemble Intercontemporain and IRCAM-Centre Pompidou

Premiered 20 February 2025 at La Cité de la Musique, Paris 
by Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Martin Matalon

https://www.orenboneh.com/

Als ich tot war (2025) audio only, no film - for 8 instruments and electronics

LIMIT (2025)
composed by James O'Callaghan
performed by Paramirabo and Ensemble Hopper:
François Deppe - conductor

Jeffrey Stonehouse - Flute, Pan Flute
Gwénaëlle Ratouit  - Clarinet
Cédric De Bruycker - Contrabass Clarinet
Pamela Reimer - Synthesizer, Piano
François Couvreur - Electric Guitar
Krystina Marcoux - Percussion
Moran Le Bars - Percussion
Hubert Brizard - Violin
Victor Guaita - Viola
Viviana Gosselin - Cello

Recorded 10 April 2025, Le MOM, Liège

Audio recording: Patrick Delges
Audio mixing: James O'Callaghan

Programme note
LIMIT was composed for two ensembles with whom I have long artistic relationships, Paramirabo from Montréal, and Hopper from Liège, and it was a great pleasure to be part of their joining forces for the first time. Looking at the instrumental forces of the commission, I saw a lot of potential for a noisy, distorted sound world - with electric guitar, synthesizer, and two clarinets, whose closed-tube construction emphasizes odd harmonics in the same way that distortion creates wave-folding. And so, built around the idea of distortion, square waves, and odd harmonics, I wrote the piece as an homage to two genres of music close to my heart: industrial music and musique concrète. The piece was premiered in Belgium, so I wanted to give a special nod to one of my favourite groups from there who ended their activity this year after more than 30 years: Front 242. The piece also gives nods and sometimes direct quotations from works by Einstürzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, as well as Pièrre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.
The piece was composed partly during a residency at the Centre Henri Pousseur in Liège, and I wish to thank Patrick Delges for his technical assistance during the residency and the production.

LIMIT - Paramirabo + Ensemble Hopper, François Deppe

"Orison" is a work for ondes Martenot and electronics commissioned and performed by Daniel Áñez. It was irresistible for me to associate this early electronic instrument with science fiction and the idea of extra-terrestrial life, and so the work takes on a quasi-narrative, atmospheric character addressing these themes and their relationship with spirituality, the idea of the metaphysical 'other,' and personal feelings of alienation and otherness. Besides being an incredible ondist, Daniel has a virtuosic fluency with synthesizers and effects pedals, and so the work incorporates a significant signal processing component, which Daniel implemented. The work also features a vocoder during a brief sung passage. The work premiered in 2024 at the Electric Eclectics festival in Meaford, ON, and this studio recording was realized by Daniel Áñez and James O'Callaghan in 2025.

They Did It on His Birthday

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