
between Here and Elsewhere (2024)
from The Memory of Water Vol. II

by Camila Agosto

World Premiere performed by Martine Kinsella Thomas (viola) and Thea Mesirow (cello) during the NYU De/Composing Sound Conference on October 5, 2024.

About the Piece: 

What if, at the end of your life, your soul dropped into a pool of water—a single drop returning to an ocean, surrounded by other droplets on their separate journeys? As you move forward, you must release the attachments you’ve developed in this lifetime, shedding the layers that defined your identity and individuality. Your memories, roles, scars, and all details that once defined you must be let go. 

The Memory of Water is an ongoing collaborative project that explores the relationship between the natural erosion of human memory and broader ecological concerns through the journey of a life that begins in water and returns to water. This project integrates live composition, improvisation, custom instrument design, poetry, and electronics. Within Volume I, I delve into questions of what is remembered and forgotten, and the impact of change when dealing with loss and grief, through a collection of texts written by Martine Kinsella Thomas, a violist and poet. These texts explore life cycles that start from the ocean and return to the ocean, weaving ecological concern and personal narratives. Volume II continues this exploration through a new collaboration with Martine Thomas and cellist Thea Mesirow. In this volume, we navigate a new environment marked by the murmurs of souls, examining the vulnerability involved in surrendering one’s memory to the distortions of time.


between Here and Elsewhere

For Bb Clarinet and Electronics (2015)

Performed by Eric Umble

World Premiere Sunday November 6, 2016 at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, NY

For Bb Clarinet and Electronics

Whispers - Interlude: 
by Camila Agosto 

Fixed electronic work split across an 8.1 surround array. Featuring pre-recorded alto and tenor saxophone, voice, and signal processing. 

Voice, Alto, and tenor saxophone performed by Justin Massey.

Whispers - Interlude

Listen to me as one listens to the rain (2016) by Camila Agosto

NY premiere performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble: Alice Teyssier, flute, Ryan Muncy, saxophone, Ross Karre, percussion at Abrons Art Center, November 2016. 

Listen to me as one listens to the rain

Paracusia II. tethers (2018) by Camila Agosto 

World Premiere; June 21, 2018, Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity

Performed by Justin Massey, tenor saxophone. 

Paracusia II. tethers

Transparent Balance (2019-2020) by Camila Agosto 

NY Premiere performed by Walter Aparicio at Lincoln Center, November 2023. 

Transparent Balance

The in-between (2023) by Camila Agosto 

Fixed media piece featuring layered solo baritone saxophones and signal processing.

Saxophone performed by Justin Massey, electronics and processing performed by Camila Agosto.

The in-between

The Thinness Of (2019-2020)
by Camila Agosto

Recording from performance by Thea Mesirow (cello), New York University, April 2023. 

Inspired by Martine Thomas' text, The thinness of depicts our internal landscape of static, noise, hyper-controlled states, and inner dialogue that manipulates our shifting perspectives and sense of reality.

The Thinness Of

Tybontoan (2019) by Camila Agosto

World Premiere of Tybontoan by Camila Agosto

Performed by International Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Steven Schick on June 1, 2019 at the Walt Disney Recital Hall during the Los Angeles Philharmonic Noon to Midnight Festival.

Tybontoan

The Memory of Water Vol. I, the sky moves beneath our feet (2023)
by Camila Agosto

Performed by Martine Thomas, viola and voice, and Camila Agosto, electronics.

About the Piece: 

What if, at the end of your life, your soul dropped into a pool of water—a single drop returning to an ocean, surrounded by other droplets on their separate journeys? As you move forward, you must release the attachments you’ve developed in this lifetime, shedding the layers that defined your identity and individuality. Your memories, roles, scars, and all details that once defined you must be let go. 

The Memory of Water is an ongoing collaborative project that explores the relationship between the natural erosion of human memory and broader ecological concerns through the journey of a life that begins in water and returns to water. This project integrates live composition, improvisation, custom instrument design, poetry, and electronics. Within Volume I, I delve into questions of what is remembered and forgotten, and the impact of change when dealing with loss and grief, through a collection of texts written by Martine Kinsella Thomas, a violist and poet. These texts explore life cycles that start from the ocean and return to the ocean, weaving ecological concern and personal narratives. Volume II continues this exploration through a new collaboration with Martine Thomas and cellist Thea Mesirow. In this volume, we navigate a new environment marked by the murmurs of souls, examining the vulnerability involved in surrendering one’s memory to the distortions of time.


The sky moves beneath our feet - Excerpt

Light Leak II. by light, by shadow (2025) by Camila Agosto

World premiere performed by The Rhythm Method at Fridman Gallery on March 1, 2025 in NYC. 

Light Leak II. by light, by shadow

Paracusia III.descry (2019-2020)
by Camila Agosto

World premiere performed by Justin Massey (saxophone) at Lenfest Center for Arts, February 2020. 

Audio Recording by David Adamcyk.

Paracusia III. descry

“Forsythia—
and radiant spring’s
melancholy”
— Mantarō Kubota

Forsythia (2024-25) 
Composed for and dedicated to Yarn/ Wire
Musicians: 
Pianos: Julia den Boer, Laura Barger
Percussions: Russell Greenberg, Dennis Sulivan

Forsythia (2024-25)-Ashkan Behzadi

Free rock and roll

Dirk Klöffer_ Solo für Oboe

Dirk Klöffer-Exercise for 8 windinstruments

Débris de Fleurs, for soprano and ensemble

Live Recording: Ensemble Écoute and selected performers from the Live Act Contemporary Music Academy, 30 August 2025, Kulturforum Görlitzer Synagoge, Görlitz (DE)

Débris de Fleurs (2025)

Camila Agosto is a composer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator whose electroacoustic music examines how
we perceive sound and vibration, exploring their physiological, mental, and emotional impacts. In her work, Camila collaborates with
musicians, visual artists, choreographers, and instrument builders, seeking to uncover intersections across artistic fields. Her work
includes both fully notated and improvisational compositions emphasizing timbral and textural exploration. She aims to reveal the
sonic potentialities of acoustic instruments while highlighting the human element in live performance. Her projects encompass
acoustic and electroacoustic concert works, interdisciplinary collaborations with visual media and dance, installations, and fixed media
creations.

Camila was honored to be the youngest fellow to be accepted to the American Academy in Berlin and is a recipient of the Fall 2023 Berlin Prize and Deutsche Bank Fellowship in Music Composition from the Academy. Her music has been commissioned and performed by leading artists and featured by venues throughout the United States and abroad. Camila is currently an ABD doctoral candidate at Columbia University in Music Composition.

for more information please visit: 
https://ashkanbehzadi.com

Contact: 
behzadi.ashkan@gmail.com

Ashkan Behzadi, a recipient of 2025 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize and a 2021–2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, is an Iranian-Canadian composer based in New York. He earned his DMA in composition at Columbia University, where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, and Georg Friedrich Haas. Prior to this, he graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in composition and music theory, studying composition with Chris Paul Harman and Brian Cherney. Ashkan also holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Tehran University, where, at the same time, he took composition and music theory lessons with Alireza Mashayekhi.
Ashkan’s music has been commissioned and performed by various international performers and ensembles, including Ensemble Recherche, TAK Ensemble, Oerknal Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, Yarn/Wire, JACK Quartet, Grossman Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble UnitedBerlin, Exaudi, Ekmeles, Wet Ink, Talea Ensemble, and le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM). 
His work has also been recognized with awards, artist residencies, and participation in festivals such as the Koussevitzky Foundation, Fromm Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Sommer Second Prize, the Prix de Composition at Fontainebleau, the MacDowell Fellowship, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, the Divertimento Ensemble Composers Meeting, the Dialoge Festival at Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, the Manifeste Festival at IRCAM, and the CIRMMT New Music Series.
For the 2019–2020 academic year, Ashkan Behzadi joined the Department of Music at the University of Chicago as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Center for Contemporary Composition. Since september 2023, he teaches at the Manhattan School of Music as a faculty member in Music Composition.
The issue of genre identity or genre-blurring, along with the dialectical relationship between modernist lyric poetry and contemporary music, has formed the core of Ashkan’s aesthetic concerns in recent years. Structurally, his music demonstrates a great attention to detail, conveying a miniaturist and gentle lyrical landscape. By employing techniques of allusion and pastiche as the foundation of his craft, his music ultimately seeks to invoke the collective memory of folklore music.

All performed and composed by me.
see also: vasco ribeiro morais pag 1,2,4,5,6,7,8
https://vascoribeiromorais.bandcamp.com/?from=viewsite_dashboard

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