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

James Stone (b. 1993) is a composer and pianist. His music has been performed internationally by Quatuor Tana, Ensemble Modern, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, Sound Icon, members of Ensemble Dal Niente, Formalist Quartet, Mivos Quartet, the Eco Ensemble, and others. He holds a PhD in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Franck Bedrossian, Myra Melford and Cindy Cox.

Daniel Sclafani is a saxophonist and educator with a special interest in contemporary solo and chamber music. This interest has been focused on performing and recording lesser-known contemporary and avant-garde compositions for solo saxophone. Daniel holds a Masters in Saxophone Performance from Rutgers University where he studied with Paul Cohen. He received his B.M. in Music Education with Performance Honors from Syracuse University where he studied with Ronald Caravan. In 2021, he was selected for the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt studying contemporary music with Marcus Weiss. Currently, Daniel teaches instrumental music grades 4-12 in upstate New York, and taught saxophone lessons at Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta.

based in izmir
toykanefekahraman@gmail.com

Toykan Efe Kahraman (b.1999, Izmir, Turkey) is a composer based in Izmir/Turkey who focuses on treating sound as a single hybrid entities derived from the dialectical juxtaposition of elements such as rigidity - fluidity, flowness - frozenness resulting from the combination of single sound organism. This enjoy portraying sonorous narratives, and this inclination consistently transforms their behaviors into a sonic experiment.

An amateur student. 🐧
Insomnia
Masculinology

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.

Home of sweet experimental slow music, sound and art practice by Nukumori Eugene / Nx -街音の収集 (always welcome demo & collabo for release from Living Room Tapes)　　 

Nukumori Eugene / Nx ﾇｸﾓﾘ ﾕｰｼﾞﾝ / ぬくもりゆーじん is a Hong Kong - Japan Base Sound Artist, Researcher and  Architect. He is joining the sound & art projects around the world beside run his own label  "Living Room Tapes" - the sound & art collective. 

The project often highlights the sounds and arts placed between the nature and city's folklore - deconstructive city street culture and urban suburbia - related to the urban observation research project ~ Research and Practice of Alternative Art Space / Micro-Art Space  

featured projects :  Strange Ordinary Necessities不思議な日用品 / Urban Observational Studies 都市観察学会 / Skmtt /  / HONG KONG SUBURBIA / 3am / Soundscape Saitama 100 / 100音夜行 / Edition 1/f / A TALE OF OUR CITIES / MEIV