Audio by Pascal Lopinat (Album Version)
Artwork by Ines Emertasol

Didactics of the Prepared and Amplified Drumset

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outpouring beneath my skin [2024] for mixed quartet, prepared snare drum, accessory instruments, and playback.

• Written for and premiered by @lvmsc-lovemusic (collective lovemusic):

- Niamh Dell, oboe and accessory instruments/objects
- Adam Starkie, prepared contrabass clarinet and accessory instruments/objects
- Emily Yabe, prepared violin and prepared snare drum
- Léa Legros Pontal, prepared viola and prepared snare drum

Electronics performed by the composer.

• Recording of the premiere @ Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), 24 May 2024, Strasbourg, France.

Special thanks to Iván Solano, Tom Mays, Guilherme Ribeiro, Fernando Strasnoy, and Lorenzo Paniconi. 

*good quality headphones or loudspeakers are recommended*

• Program Notes:

"There are moments when the body is as numinous
as words, days that are the good flesh continuing"
(Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas)

Here, the essence of an unbridled force, a torrential overflow, finds itself cradled within the fragility of the ephemeral. The boundaries between the tangible and the transcendent, as the intricate network of pulses within. Or the interwoven tapestry of existence, where strength and vulnerability coalesce. Each sound, stretched string, broken voice, boundless burst of air. 
These other veins coursing with the lifeblood of the ensemble. Instruments become vessels (of exploration), conduits of the unexpected. Within their resonant chambers lie worlds concealed (and waiting).

"Implied inner palpability as transpersonal dictation
all works composed as a musical ark
as if rowing in an isthmus of lightning"
(Will Alexander, Inner Palpability)

outpouring beneath my skin [2024]

This track was recorded live at one of our improvised jam sessions at The Premises, London, and mixes field recordings, sound samples, processed sounds, synths, gongs, and percussion. The image used with this track is made up of our performance kit.

Giants walk this way

une heure de musique minimaliste, instruments prepares, accoustiques, electroniques, accordeon, guitare, buzuq, percussion, batterie, on traverse la planete et l'espace en long et en large avec Pierre-Yves Martel (merci Sharif Sehnaoui), Yara 'Tinkerbell' Asmar, Ishtirak, Samah Boulmona, Jeremy Thal, Dylan 'Dylanova' Green, Opiate, Charbel Haber, Lemon Jelly, Brioskj (da Genova!), Two or the Dragon et plus ❤

CHAMP SONORE DIM 2 FEV 2025

Cartography of Modular Spaces for prepared ensemble is the latest work of Spatio-Temporal Cartographies. The work was commissioned by Vertixe Sonora with funds from the UGC (Early Career Scheme Grant). The work was premiere by Vertixe Sonora on Sunday 27th October, 2024 at Martin Codax Auditorium in Vigo, Spain. 
Vertixe Sonora
Clara Saleiro: flute 
Pablo Coello: saxophone
Naiara de la Puente: accordion 
Roberto Alonso: violin
Inés Picado: viola
Myriam García: violoncello
Carlos Méndez: double bass
David Durán: piano 
Diego Ventoso: percussion

Cartography of Modular Spaces

piano et guitare arranges, six marimbas, guitare electrique, claviers, et electronique, tiges metalliques vibrantes, musique experimentale, musique concrete avec Pierre Henry, Cynthia Zaven, Sharif Sehnaoui, Steve Reich, Charbel Haber, Ryan Tracey et 💙

CHAMP SONORE DIM 13 AVR 2025


Disappeared Quipu[s] was commissioned by Music Biennale Zagreb 2025 for Vertixe Sonora, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and Vid Veljak.

Disappeared Quipu[s] was premiered in Zagreb, Croatia, on April 12th at Tvornica Kulture
& on April 15th at Museo do Mar, Vigo, Spain.

Vertixe Sonora
Pablo Coello, saxophones
Nuno Marques, e. guitar
David Duran, piano
Roberto Alonso, violin

Hong Kong New Music Ensemble
Linus Fung, clarinet
William Lane, viola
Karen Yu, percussion
Chiu Tan-ching, guzheng

Vid Veljak, cello

Angus Lee, conductor

Recorded by Sebastian Yepes at Museo do Mar, Vigo, Spain 
Mixed by Luca Gardani


Disappeared Quipu[s]: Broken & Forgotten

Camilo Mendez is a composer of acoustic concert music. He conceives his works as compositional cycles; series of pieces orbiting around the same musical ideas but written for different instrumental combinations. He completed a Doctorate and a Master’s in advanced composition at the Royal College of Music in London. He has also studied with Rebecca Saunders and Pierluigi Billone. In 2017, Mendez was appointed as the Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor of the Academy of Music at HKBU.

His music has been performed by ensembles and soloists who specialize in contemporary concert music and has been featured in such international festivals as Festival Internacional Cervantino, the International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, June in Buffalo, Klasik Keyifler, the Mallorca Saxophone Festival, and Next Generation Donaueschingen.

Mendez has been awarded the Colombian National Prize in Composition, Colombia’s highest honor for music composition on two occasions, in 2023 and 2009. In 2021, his work Disappeared Quipu[s] received the first prize in the UiTM String Quartet International Composition Competition. 

He has held residencies and fellowships at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Willapa Bay AiR, the Bogliasco Foundation, Ensemble Recherche and the Goethe-Institut, the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts, and MacDowell Foundation.

We are an experimental sound collective that uses live mixing and an array of unconventional techniques to create improvised soundscapes. Crafted with field recordings, guitars, percussion, gongs, synths, and voice, each set is an unrepeatable dialogue between sounds that we collect and manipulate and the spaces and places in which we find ourselves.

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: 
dannielribeiro@berkeley.edu
dannfribeiro@gmail.com
ig: 
www.instagram.com/danniel1ribeiro
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DannFRibeiro

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.

Empty Space is an artistic platform based in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. We explore the interactions of physical media, their characteristic formal languages, and their modes of functionality. To achieve this, we focus on projects that experiment with various art forms, aesthetics, and crafts. Our goal is to create works of art that challenge conventional modes of production and reception.

To bring each project to life, we collaborate with different artists, blending their distinctive approaches and methods into something new. Depending on the medium, many of our productions are conceived as one-of-a-kind pieces or one-time performances.

Empty Space operates as a non-profit association, with all revenue either supporting the artists or being reinvested in future projects.

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