for clarinet, bassoon and electronics (2021).

video: https://youtu.be/7q98wT4rCgE
about the piece: https://bennobuto.com/lapse

Performed by Sonix Duo (Johanna Leung and Curtis Man). Premiered in St Ann's Church, Manchester in December 2021.

Artwork: Barnett Newman - Be I (1970)

LAPSE

Polyphony Cascade

for percussion and fixed media.

I. Chroma
II. Value
III. Hue

performed by Joanne Chiang.
premiered in Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music in May 2022.

artwork: Sol LeWitt - Composite Series, Plate #01 (1971)

Three Studies

for six players and electronics (2023). 

commissioned by Southbank Sinfonia and premiered in Anghiari, Italy in July 2023.

flute: Ellie Blamires
clarinet: Raymond Brien
bassoon: Hollie Redshaw
violin: Naomi Warburton
viola: Wanshu Qiu
cello: Miki Piszczorowicz

I was thinking about euphoria in pop music, that simple, single-minded ecstatic feeling you get from so many love songs. I found some vocal samples I liked and slowed them down and looped them, imagining each one as a kind of sculpture, gently rotating round and round in a neutral, dream-like space. Still euphoric, but frozen like TV static, repeating obsessively like prayer ritual.

1. I STILL FEEL
2. YOU'RE ALL I NEED
3. DON'T RUN FROM ALL THE THINGS YOU FEAR
4. THINKIN' ABOUT YOU, I'M THINKIN' ABOUT YOU
5. WE AIN'T GOT NO PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS, YEAH. I LET 'EM GO
6. TELL ME I'M YOURS
7. AH, JUST DON'T WALK AWAY
8. I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU BUT I CAN'T SAY NO
9. I WANNA BE WITH YOU
10. YOU TOLD ME YOU WOULD NEVER, EVER FADE AWAY

BREAK-UP MANTRAS

from my new album/mixtape "variety list."
https://nextyearssnow.bandcamp.com/album/variety-list-for-pipon
dedicated to pipon

BREAK-UP MANTRAS

nobuto

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