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

Antanáklasi I [2019] | pour flûte et électronique

Performed by Ben Clark and Antonin Granier on 13.6.19 at LOOSE, LINE, LAYER in St. Mary-at-Hill, London.

The piece invites a child-like curiosity towards the instrument, and simply investigates its sonic possibilities. The materials arose from working collaboratively with percussionists Ben Clark and Antonin Granier. The first movement explores flexibility, the second looping elements, the third resonance.

Piece for three tuned cowbells (2019)

Ruggine (for string quartet + electronics, 2019 - Casa Ricordi)
co-commissioned by Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia / De Sono Associazione per la Musica
written for / dedicated to / premiered by:  Quartetto Maurice
Live recording:  09.11.2019 @ Willem Twee Concert Hall, Den Bosch (NL) - 
November Music Festival

Ruggine

Ruggine (2019)

Granular

An improvisation made in my studio in April 2020 on the modular synth. It is largely based on ethnographic cylinder recordings from the Kodaly archive, made in April 1914. These small fragments are sampled with oscillators controlling the grain, loop size and time points of the samples. Pitch and envelope followers on the samples in turn control these oscillators and other physically modelled sounds. Yannis Kyriakides, Amsterdam, April 2020.

A Ghost Of Spring

One of the three bonus tracks that comes on both the digital and CD versions of this release.

The Agnostic

IHVH, The Agnostic... The Night

Lux by The Pink Diamond Revue Remixed by Paris Alexander featuring the vocals of Eirene Musique. A Blue Door Production
www.thepinkdiamondrevue.com
https://www.instagram.com/bluedoormusicproductions/

Lux By The Pink Diamond Revue Remix By Paris Alexander

This dark ambient track comes from the beginning of Lockdown Jam 5, recorded on the 28th May 2020, again using the inspiring work of of @idin-samimi-mofakham, @martyna-kosecka and Michael Vallone (@taraexperiment), as well reintroducing the work of our dear friend @arshia-samsaminia.

Vessels

My immense gratitude to the JACK Quartet for their thought and attention in this reading!

mastered by carlos cotallo solares

manifold

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

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

Sonja Mutić

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