Resound for ensemble, voices and electronics
Composed by Sonja Mutić
Performed by National Sawdust ensemble and Constellation Chor
Filmed at National Sawdust as a part of the Hildegard competition commission concert
released on March 11, 2021.

National Sawdust Ensemble:
Stephen Gosling piano
Miranda Cuckson violin
Jeffrey Zeigler cello
Sae Hashimoto percussion
Oran Etkin bass clarinet

Constellation Chor:
Maya Carney soprano
Sarah Beth Pfeifer alto
Heath Saunders tenor
Raphael Sacks baritone

Sound design and recording:
Charles Hagaman
Garth McAleavey

Resound for ensemble, voices and electronics

First prize and the Bärenreiter prize at International Kompositionswettbewerb für Kammermusik at Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik 2016.
Ensemble via nova: Daniel Gutiérrez, Neža Torkar, Nikita Geller and Lukas Fischer
Weimar, Kulturzentrum mon ami, 17.04.2016.

Weiß (vn, vc, pno, acc)

abgrund, for ensemble (2017) 

Lucerne Festival 
KKL Luzern 23.08.2017

Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble:
Raoul Cho flute
Tomonori Takeda clarinet
Vitaliy Kyianytsia piano
Bill Solomon percussion
Marina Kifferstein violin
Rachel Koblyakov violin
Francesco Tosco viola
Simon Thompson cello
Juan Díaz double bass
Conducting:
Mehdi Lougraïda

abgrund, for ensemble

…like many surfaces of an attempt, for Schallfeld ensemble (2018)

impuls Minutenkonzerte
esc kunst medien labor Graz
May 26th 2018 

Schallfeld ensemble: 
Myriam García Fidalgo violoncello 
Matej Bunderla saxophone
Szilárd Benes bass clarinet 
Juan Pablo Trad Hasbun double bass 
Davide Gagliardi sound

Program notes:
This piece is about the distance between musical events and the difficulties posed in making connections between them. However, connections between them still somehow exist. They have to be searched for, invented, discovered. There is something disturbing in that process, but also calming. In the second part of the piece I use a text that I wrote, which gives the listeners new opportunities for constructing the flow of the music and deciphering its meaning. 

Text: 

What if we meet and I fall in love?
What if we meet and we don’t like each other?
What if we meet and we like each other 
so much, that we can not 
breathe? 

What if we meet and you start to hate me?
What if we meet and you are boring to me?
What if we meet and I seem old to you?
What if we meet and you like me more?
What if we meet and I like you more?
What if we meet and you fuck me 
so hard, that I don’t wanna
talk? 

What if we meet and I don’t like your smell?
What if we meet and you’re  not impressed 
with my body?
What if we meet and you say something wrong 
something stupid 
something cruel? 
What if we meet and you scare me?
What if we meet and we don’t understand 
each other?

What if we meet and it’s raining 
so heavily
that we have to stay inside and fuck 
all the time
and hug all the time
and talk all the time?

What if we meet and it’s sunny 
so beautiful
that we have to kiss on the grass 
all the time
hide from other people all the time
smile at each other 
all the time?

What if we meet and I hate the way you smoke 
the way you walk
the way you’re touching me?

What if we meet and you don’t like my thoughts, 
my worlds, my colors of the 
rainbow?
What if we meet and we realize that we 
are two different galaxies?
What if we meet and I feel that I’m not 
enough for you?

What if we meet and it gets awkward? 
What if we meet and I get anxious?
What if we meet and you faint?
What if we meet and …? 
                ………
                ……
                 ….
What if we never meet?

Sonja Mutić

...like many surfaces of an attempt, for Schallfeld Ensemble

Composer, performer, sound artist from Serbia/Croatia, based in Berlin
www.sonjamutic.com

Sonja Mutić

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