Contraction - For Trombone Solo (2018)

Commissioned by Duo Signal

Alejandro Oliván - alto saxophone
Adrián Albaladejo Díaz - trombone

April 20th, 2023 Live at Unternehmen mitte – Safe Theater, Basel, Switzerland

[pictured: David Rabinowitch, "Elliptical Plane in 3 Masses and 4 Scales III," 1973–75]

An altar in three frames (2022) for alto saxophone and trombone

DLB2305
three_four_maybe (composed 2020-21, recorded 2023)
for 3 musicians: midi controllers, prepared piano, 24 solenoids, 3 LED panels

When I was a child, before I started writing my own music, I used to write short stories. My poor handwriting made it difficult for others to read, and we didn’t have a computer at home at the time. So my parents got me a typewriter for my birthday. I loved it so much. Ideas would just flow, from my mind, into printed paper. What I liked the most about the typewriter was the sound that it made. And how each word would become music as it got typed. It was an electric typewriter, so there was a little bit of delay between my key presses and the actual sound. I learnt how to work around it and I would type faster or slower in order to queue up characters and hear certain rhythms I had in my head. So that electric typewriter was, in a way, my first sequencer.
I see the grand piano in “three_four_maybe” a bit like a giant typewriter that makes the most amazing sounds. Sounds...  more
credits
released May 12, 2023

Music by Xavier Bonfill
Text quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
Solenoid stands setup design by Lorenzo Colombo

Producer, midi recording, mixing: Xavier Bonfill
Audio recording, mastering: Mikael Tobias
Cover Artwork: Antonio Martinez

Performed by NEKO3: Kalle Hakosalo, Fei Nie, Lorenzo Colombo

With kind support from KODAs Cultural Funds & DMF / Gramex Collective Funds

three_four_maybe

BANDCAMP

three_four_maybe III (4.1271)

Entertainment

昨风起西北，万艘皆乘便。
今风转而东，我舟十五纤。
力乏更雇夫，百金尚嫌贱。
船工怒斗语，夫坐视而怨。
添槔亦复车，黄胶生口咽。
河泥若祐夫，粘底更不转。
添金工不怒，意满怨亦散。
一曳如风车，叫啖如临战。
傍观莺窦湖，渺渺无涯岸。
一滴不可汲，况彼西江远。
万事须乘时，汝来一何晚。

08072024

DI 17.09.
20 Uhr, Schwaz | SZentrum

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NAMES Ensemble
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I am addicted

Premiered by Ensemble Linea:
Flute and Electronics: 
Keiko Murakami. 

May 9, 2024 @ Griswold, Peabody Institute


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Recorded December 2004 for Solo CD "Blaauw"

Isabel Mundry, Solo Auf Schwellen for double bell trumpet

Premiered at outHEAR Festival in Larissa, Greece on December 14th, 2019 by members of Klangforum Wien and PPCM. 

Felix Martl, bass clarinet
Mikael Rudolfsson, trombone
Leo Morello, cello
Joonas Ahonen, piano
Dimitrios Polisoidis, conductor

recorded by Dimitri Papageorgiou

[pictured: John Divola]

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An amateur student. 🐧
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