“Slicing” is a work for accordion and fixed electronics which was written to be performed at the cochlear implant congress in Hannover (February 2015), where most of the audience attending the concert had been implanted. It was required a work that could fit their special listening features, which are: difficulties to distinguish melodic intervals lower that a third (as an average) and no response to frequencies higher that 8 Khz and lower that 125 Hz -although these low vibrations can be felt in the rest of the body-. The response to rhythm, beats and musical gestures based on “noise” is quite good. Having this in mind I wrote a piece that pays special attention to the musical and physical gesture, with an easy discourse based in a few contrasting situations. The title of the piece has to do with the way it was composed, mainly editing, “slicing” fragments of music and scattering them here and there. Melody and harmony disappear and the music focuses in timbre and pulse. The electronic part, generated from manipulated accordion recordings, and the acoustic instrumet dialogue and merge in a whole. There are gestural and attitude indications in the score in order to provide a visual guide to the music that can help and strenghthen its perception.

Slicing - Roser Gabriel, accordion (2015)

In memory of our aunt Σοφία that left us the 26th of November 2014

Jonas Kocher: accordion
Dimitris Papageorgiou: composition, electronics and maxMSP programming, recording, mixing

sapientia (2015–16) | Jonas Kocher (acc.)

Her Majesty the Fool (2020)
by Oren Boneh
Fanny Vicens, XAMP mictrotonal accordion and electronics

For the video: https://youtu.be/hagaxRg15FE

Composed for Fanny Vicens for premiere at Festival Manifeste IRCAM 2020
Special thanks to Grégoire Lorieux, Thierry De Mey, and the IRCAM Pedagogical Team.
Filmed at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Video production: Année Zéro – Benoît Martin, Guillaume Foresti

Her Majesty the Fool (2020) - for accordion and electronics

violin ~ improvisation ~ composition
Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University

Composer / Producer / Artistic director / Professor
pablo.carrascosa@gmail.com

Born in Valencia in 1979, my first contact with music was as a bass guitar/singer in a Black/Death Metal band. When I turned twenty, while studying a Master Degree in architecture at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia (ETSAV), I decided to enrole the conservatory and study classical guitar. I had fun composing just by ear but gradually this lead into something more academic so, after finishing architecture and guitar studies, I moved to Barcelona in order to study music composition at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), where I graduated with honours. My approach to composition deals with silence, space and musical objects –all of them conceived from an abstract, "architectural" perspective–, but also with possible connections between popular (specially extreme Metal and electronic) and educated music.
 
I combine contemporary music composition with audiovisual one, working sometimes as a live electronics performer as well. Producer/artistic director in the contemporary music ensemble CrossingLines, I am also professor at Taller de Músics Escola Superior d´Estudis Musicals in Barcelona.

Forthcoming projects:
 
2020: “A”. Techno EP.
2020: Music for Marcel Wanders design company.
2021: "The Milk". Electronic music for Daniel Fernández´s contemporary dancing company.
2021: "XY". Orchestral piece commissioned by OBC orchestra.
2021: "White". Techno music reinterpretation project commissioned by Sampler Sèries contemporary music cycle.
2021: “L4DL4”. Solo piano piece commissioned by Lluïsa Espigolé

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