beautiful stuff man, such clarity in the sounds ! serene, crystalline, as i hear it

Commande de l'Ensemble Vortex avec le soutien de la fondation suisse pour la culture Pro Helvetia.

Rada Hadjikostova, violon
Benoît Morrel, alto
Aurélien Ferrette, violoncelle
Noëlle Reymond, contrebasse
Maximilien Dazas, percussion
Anne Gillot, clarinette basse
Mauricio Carrasco, guitare électrique 

Caméra et enregistrement son, Arturo Corrales & Daniel Zea
Mixage et montage, Paul Clift

'Tombeau de Clément Ader' (2021) for chamber ensemble & electronics

Kinder und hausmärchen
Sonido Extremo
Paris 31/03/2022

Kinder und hausmärchen [excerpt]

Klangforum Wien
Bas Wiegers, conductor

LIVE recording
June 29, 2022 (8pm concert)
Konzerthaus Wien

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Unfeeling was written in response to a commission for an homage to Gustav Mahler. It is an inward-looking meditation on withdrawal and isolation, deeply indebted to his spirit.

References to Mahlerian sonorities abound, in a deliberately restrained, sparsely-orchestrated, Fin-de-Siècle atmosphere. A long melody, led by the English Horn, slowly coalesces, smeared with heterphonic doublings and intercut by an insistent harmonium and static noises. Once-vivid sounds are deprived of their vitality, muffled by a wide variety of mutes, providing a strained and distant counterpoint.

The music reaches for those transcendent moments — the coda of Ich bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen, the last bars of Lieder Eines fahrenden Gesellen, the ending of Das Lied von der Erde — but that kind of climax remains elusive. We are grounded in the 􏰂at and muddled territory of rumination, unable to muster the strength to break through.

After a while, a second voice emerges: raspy, guttural, full of stutters and slides — a mutually incomprehensible language that fails to communicate or redirect the 􏰂ow.

Unfeeling was commissioned by Klangforum Wien and premiered on December 3m 2021 at the Konzerthaus in Vienna with Bas Wiegers conducting.

Unfeeling

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echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics
commissioned by hand werk 

Live Recording, hand werk, 29 November 2022, Köln

echo from afar (ii)(2022), for six musicians and electronics

Le Ombre delle cose
for accordion, violin, cello and piano
September 2023 - Ensemble Cairn 
(Julia Sinoimeri, Constance Ronzatti, Alexa Ciciretti , Maroussia Gentet)
Musica Festival - Strasbourg
(recording: Frédéric Apfell)

Le ombre delle cose

PolychROME

Fragmente einer Erinnerung (2015)
für Flöte, Klarinette, Violine, Violoncello, Klavier und Schlagzeug

Ensemble hand werk

Fragmente einer Erinnerung (2015)

'Elan Vital' (2017-18) for flute, clarinet, saxophone & piano

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet
commissioned by JACK Quartet, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Live Recording, JACK Quartet, 16 January 2020, Berlin

You crawl over seas of granite (2019–20), for amplified, detuned string quartet

'Astatine' for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics
Composed 2019

Commissioned and performed by Trio Saeitenwind
Karolina Öhman: cello
Olivia Steimel: accordion
Jonas Tschanz: saxophones

Live recording at Biel/Bienne on 20 October, 2019.

'Astatine' (2019) for saxophone, accordion, cello & electronics

Steven Loy: Tathatā (2011) for orchestra
Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra; Steven Loy, conductor
Slovenian Music Days
Slovenian Philharmonic Hall, Ljubljana
March 14, 2013

Tathatā (2011) for orchestra

Steven Loy

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