remixed with the kind permission of the composer. you may find her works here: https://soundcloud.com/tatiana-catanzaro

enjoy!

Intarsia by Tatiana Catanzaro [minkepatt Remix]

Score Follower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEkwERKf8WE
Written for and recorded by the JACK Quartet (https://jackquartet.com/).

Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins
John Pickford Richards, viola
Jay Campbell, violoncello

Recorded by Brian Riordan at Salisbury Congregational Church, Vermont, June 2021.

*good quality headphones or loudspeakers are recommended*

as eroding arches collide [2021] for string quartet

Salvatore Sciarrino (1947), D'un faune pour flute et piano (1980)

música-cinema sobre composições de Fernando Riederer, clarinete, ronda smetakeana, trompete, percussão, dial de rádio e depoimento de índios guarani mbya

#063 Estudos Sobre O Instante E Outras Denominações Reidererianas

Ensemble Recherche
Martin Fahlenbock, bass flute
Jaime González, english horn
Shizuyo Oka, bass clarinet
Christian Dierstein, percussion

Konzertsaal, Musikhochschule Stuttgart, Germany
2014

A Terceira Margem Do Rio (2014), for bass flute, english horn, bass clarinet and percussion

2006
Françoise Rivalland / Pascal Contet / Les percussions de Strasbourg

RE Sonare [2006]

Fernando Riederer: Sho II für Cembalo und Akkordeon (2013)
duo ovocutters: Sonja Leipold, Cembalo, Christoph Hofer, Akkordeon

Aufnahme: Ivan Kitanović 

Fernando Riederer: Sho II

junkyard piece I (for an ensemble of musicians and found objects) [2014/15]

*live recording of the premiere with ensemble recherche (20.11.2015 - Freiburg, DE)

junkyard piece I (version 1), 2014/15 *live recording (premiere), ensemble recherche

bass-flute: Cássia Carrascoza / live-electronics: José Henrique Padovani

Live-recording of première. 
Opening concert of the 16th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music (SBCM).
Concert Hall of the Music Department of the School of Communication and Arts / São Paulo University (USP)
September 3rd, 2017

φάτις, in Greek, refers to "speech" and to "language". The term is also associated to "word" and "rumor" and refers also to the "word that comes from heaven" in the oracle. Both in the compositional writing for the acoustical instrument and in the mechanisms of the electronics, the piece draws on vocal materials, on images and connotations evoked by the term φάτις, and on references to my previous works, impedance (2010) and fragmentos sobre o sol (2012), as models, materials, processes and space of gestural and sonic investigation to explore the transductive process of sound production and transformation that happens along the phonetic/respiratory system of the instrumentalist, the flute, the live-electronics processes and the sound projection in the acoustic space. 
The piece is dedicated to flutist Cássia Carrascoza.

φάτις (2017) for bass-flute (Cássia Carrascoza) and live-electronics [binaural mix, use headphones]

The title, written in a phonetic translation of Arabic, means, literally, “When the Tree of Life grows in the Yahi desert”. The Tree of Life (Shajarat al-Hayah) is a 400 year-old tree that exists in the Bahrain’s desert, an island that lies right in the middle of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran and Iraq. At the beginning of 2015, I was extremely chocked by the terrorist attacks committed not only in France, but also in Nigeria, etc., by some religious extremists. Anyhow, I truly believe that all this acts have little to do with religious matters. I think the aim of this war is above all political. It’s a quest for power leaded by militarily trained men. This kind of desire for power can be symbolized, nowadays, by the capitalism itself, but especially by the oil, the black gold, which gushes in that region of the Earth where this mysterious tree, that no one knows how it can possibly be alive (Shajarat al-Hayah), lives. 
Yahi desert, in its turn, comes from the Brecht’s piece “The exception and the rule”. It tells the story of a rich merchant, who must cross the fictional Yahi Desert to close an oil deal. As he does not know the way, he hires two local men to guide him during the journey:
"We are here to report
The story of a journey. It was undertaken
By one who exploits and two of the exploited.
Closely observe the behavior of these people:
Find it strange, even when ordinary
Inexplicable, even when familiar
Incomprehensible, even when it is the rule.
Even the slightest detail, however simple
You should look at with suspicion. Ask if it is needed
Especially when it is quite normal.
Please, we say to you now, do not accept
Events that happen every day as natural!
For in these times of bloody confusion,
Ordered disorder, deliberate violence
Inhuman humanity -
Nothing must be called natural, so that nothing
May be thought unchangeable."

This desert, scenario for this quest for the oil, reveals the greedy part of the human being. The piece is based on the sounds that the drilling oil machine does while extracting this black gold in the earth sub-surface, trying to make grow an impossible Tree that could metamorphose this oppressive reality into something more positive, to reveal some hope underneath all this deliberate violence that we experience in the modern society.

Andma Shajarat al-Hayah tanmow fi Sahra Yahi

Tatiana Catanzaro

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