for string quartet and electronics
Commissioned by F. and J-P Billarant for the Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik 2021.
Recorded by Ircam (Paris, Centre Pompidou), mixed by Music Unit.

First performance : April 23th 2021, Paris (FR)
Diotima quartet.

Des Mondes Possibles - string quartet & electronics (2021)

Neil Luck
Downturn Fantasies
CD (E255)

Limited edition of 150 copies
Release date: August 2021
https://entracte.co.uk/projects/Neil-Luck-E255

An abandoned title for this album — Under Eye Finger Pressure —
could be a tentative instruction to the listener. Closing your eyes,
then gently pressing the base of your eyeballs through your eyelids
is a good, slightly painful way of generating accompanying visual
phenomena. Direct from the lobes, unmediated colours and shapes
that ease passage into a less concrete way of meeting the world.

Downturn Fantasies

Neil Luck (E255; 2021)

Performed by Kali Ensemble and commissioned by Lichtbogen Neue Musik festival at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf (Germany).

Kali ensemble:
 İdil Yunkuş (violin), Beste Yıldız (cello), and Nirantar Yakthumba (piano)

About:
The piece was written in spring of 2022, and it is dedicated to Idil, Beste and Nirantar. It is inspired by Zoe Karelli’s poem, “The tree” (1955) and the way the poet approaches the flux of time. Without defining a beginning or an end, the poem describes the constant transformations that derive from episodic time events.

The branches look the same, for piano trio

Kunstkammer

Inventare Nr. 1

Drive my car

https://audilesnow.bandcamp.com/album/sk-adnia

Bezwonny utwór o wymiarach 41x29 m

The music of Naarm/Melbourne composer Lisa Lerkenfeldt channels a unique wavelength of foreboding, interstitial electronics, incorporating strategies of musique concréte threaded with veiled currents of melody and hypnosis. Recent recordings for Vienna Press, Longform Editions and Aught Void have demonstrated different depths of process and finesse but her latest, Collagen, captures perhaps the most complete and complex manifestation of her craft to date.

Drawing on a disciplined palette of peach wood combs, contact microphones, piano, strings, and feedback, the album moves in low, looming arcs, ascending to strange purgatories of opaque atmosphere. Lerkenfeldt cites a core aspiration to “elevate the everyday,” transforming common objects into otherworldly sound sources, which colors Collagen with a beguiling tactility, like vibrations traced in sand. The tracks shift in frequency and feeling, alternately heady and bodily, acoustic and synthetic, isolated states of static, light, and undertow skirting the outer rings of ambient, noise, and modern composition.

Although each piece exists in its own rare air the composite panorama they present is striking in its sweep...  more

Credits:
Released August 21, 2020

All music by Lisa Lerkenfeldt
Mastering by Kassian Troyer at D&M
Design by Bartolome Sanson
Scores by Lisa Lerkenfeldt

Collagen

Gates Of Desire

you first

Commissioned by Duo Signal

Alejandro Oliván - alto saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

April 20th, 2023 Live at Unternehmen mitte – Safe Theater, Basel, Switzerland

[pictured: David Rabinowitch, "Elliptical Plane in 3 Masses and 4 Scales III," 1973–75]

An altar in three frames (2022) for alto saxophone and trombone

((.....)) is a piece composed from fieldrecordings that I have made during a long period of my life, but especially around the time when I lived in Berlin, when my childhood home in Denmark was sold, and when I moved to France. Sentimental and cinematic.

((.....)) - 2018

Epitaph (for Theo Calis 1960 - 2020)

Martin Hoogeboom: guitar/loop station
Marlon Wolterink: mastering

Theo and I have worked on countless music projects over the past 40 years. I have learned a lot from his stubborn and headstrong views and methods of recording and mixing music. His influence on my soundscapes is immense. In 2014 we both enjoyed working on “Where Do We Go From Here?” (2014 - Etched Traumas - ET77) which became also part of the soundtrack of Australian short movie “Grid Face”. Pieces for acoustic guitar and loop station.

In 2017 I worked on a sequel, the guitar suite "Licht". 
“Epitaph (for TC)” is originally a demo version of one of the pieces but unused in the “Licht” version as it appeared on CD (2018 “LIght / Well” - Thirsty Leaves Music - TLM019). Due to Theo’s health problems it was not possible to collaborate on this project but he appreciated the sober minimal guitar pieces for what they were.

I will remember Theo with great respect for the rest of my life.

Martin

Epitaph (for TC)

Jon Yu is a Taiwanese-American composer whose music explores notions of ritual, utility, and excess. His recent works focus on sculptural elements in electroacoustic instrumental music.

His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists including Mivos Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, loadbang, Wet Ink Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Eco Ensemble, Earplay, AsianArt Ensemble, haegeum player Soo Yeon Lyuh, and percussionist Oded Geizhals. His music has been presented at June in Buffalo, Dian Red Kechil, Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Pacific Rim Music Festival, Festival Musica, Festival Barcelona Modern, impuls Festival, outHEAR New Music Week, and IRCAM ManiFeste. He was the recipient of the 2017 Mivos/Kanter Prize for his string quartet O reche modo, and was the laureate of the Prix Alain Baltes for his vocal sextet PEK TI. From 2018-19, he was in residence in Paris at Cité internationale des arts as a fellow of the George Ladd Prix de Paris. He returned to Paris in 2020-21 to study in the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM under Thierry De Mey. He was awarded with a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024. 

Jon completed his PhD in Music Composition at UC Berkeley, where he studied with Franck Bedrossian, Ken Ueno, and Edmund Campion. He holds a Master’s degree from San Francisco State University, where he studied with Benjamin Sabey. He has also studied privately with Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Rebecca Saunders, and Pierluigi Billone. He currently teaches music theory, composition, orchestration, and musicianship as a lecturer at San José State University and UC Berkeley.

An altar in three frames (2022) for alto saxophone and trombone

Jon Yu

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