shaped and already gone - for piano and percussion quartet [2023]

• Written for and premiered by @yarn-wire

Laura Barger, piano, keyboard, and accessory percussion
Julia Den Boer, piano, keyboard, and accessory percussion
Russell Greenberg, percussion, objects, and transducers
Sae Hashimoto, percussion and objects

• Recording of the premiere @ Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley 
15 December 2023, Berkeley/CA, USA. 
Recorded by Jeremy Wagner and Brendan West.

*good quality headphones or loudspeakers are recommended*


• Program Notes:

This piece speaks to the paradoxical idea of molding existence into non-existence. Perhaps it seeks a dialogue between what is tangible and what is not—and imagined like so. 
It delves into a sense of interconnected temporalities and imagines what could travel across planes. 
There is also the perception of heaviness and the charged icons of one's personal narrative. 
This work talks about types of presences, reimagined objects, and whatever impalpable things accompany them. Intentional creation and impermanence. 

"He throws a stone today and kills a bird yesterday" (Ulli Beier, 1970). I have always interpreted the Yoruba aforism on Eshu as a reflection on consequences that defy our conventional understanding of time, in connections that appear impossible between cause and effect. 
To me, one challenge of creating lies in incorporating a possible future into a version of the past, although neither can exist.

In this piece, some sounds were simply laid flat. Others were revived or borrowed from elsewhere. What connects them (or not) is what I'm currently identifying as my own.

shaped and already gone [2023]

"Eine Erinnerung für das Vergessen" ("Memoria para el olvido", "Memory for the forgotten")
Pianist: Claudia Pérez Iñesta
Instruments: Piano, China Cymbal and Bambus Chimes.
Opening concert at the Delian Academy for New Music in Mykonos (Greece)
7th June 2019
Painting: Samir Odeh-Tamimi

En Eine Erinnerung für das Vergessen (Memoria para el olvido) para piano solo, carrillones de bambú y plato chino, el compositor se inspira en la novela del mismo título del escritor palestino Mahmoud Darwish. Consigue en la partitura de piano plasmar la implacabilidad y el sonido hueco de la guerra.

"Eine Erinnerung für das Vergessen" by Samir Odeh-Tamimi

Brazilian composer, performer, and researcher. 
PhD candidate - Department of Music/CNMAT, UC Berkeley (USA).

[profile photo by Gui Machala at Festival Plurisons 2024, Belo Horizonte/Brazil]

https://www.dannielribeiro.com/
https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/danniel-ribeiro

Contact: 
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Bio: 
Danniel RIBEIRO is a Brazilian composer from Bahia. His compositional practice is driven by research and creative exploration, focusing on exploratory instrumental writing and improvised performances supported by emerging technologies and informed by investigations into culture and identity. He examines musical gesture, instrumentality, and materiality to expand the expressive possibilities of complex timbral constructs and instrumental/sound phenomena in his compositions. His work integrates theoretical inquiry with practical experimentation, often involving the development of tailored instrumental preparations, modifications, notational systems, practical sculptural objects, amplification/transduced electronic apparatuses, and performance techniques. Danniel’s goal is to critically engage with social and cultural dimensions of contemporary concert music through research, analysis, performance, and creation, exploring the interplay between idiosyncratic artistic invention and broader cultural dynamics.

A four-time recipient of Brazil's National Composition Prize (FUNARTE), Danniel has participated in events and residencies, including Klangspuren Schwaz (Austria), the Banff Centre (Canada), Domaine Forget (Canada), Barcelona Modern (Spain), Darmstadt (GER), Festival Musica (France), New Music on the Point (USA), and ilSUONO (Italy). His works have been performed at notable venues and festivals such as Empreintes (France), Morelia (Mexico), and Sala São Paulo (Brazil).
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Danniel has collaborated with leading international ensembles, including L’Instant Donné, Yarn/Wire, Schallfeld, JACK Quartet, Barcelona Modern, RAGE Thormbones, collective lovemusic, Dal Niente, Vertixe Sonora, and Suono Giallo. He has also benefited from advanced studies with Chaya Czernowin, Franck Bedrossian, Clara Iannotta, Philippe Hurel, Malin Bång, Toshio Hosokawa, Felipe Lara, Daniel D'Adamo, Januibe Tejera, Mark Andre, Brian Ferneyhough, and Du Yun.

Danniel earned his master’s degree in composition (M.Mus.) at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University (Canada) in 2018, studying under Philippe Leroux. As a laureate of the 2023/24 George Ladd Prix de Paris, he pursued independent studies in France and recently completed the postgraduate specialization in instrumental and mixed composition at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (France). Currently, Danniel is a Ph.D. candidate in music composition at UC Berkeley (USA), studying with Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno, Myra Melford, and Carmine-Emanuele Cella.

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