Performed by Manchester Collective in December 2021 as part of their 'Heavy Metal' tour: https://manchestercollective.co.uk/metal.

Video: https://youtu.be/8t4RuT36v8A
Score Follower: https://youtu.be/ufGRThgUtIQ

Beibei Wang - Percussion
Rakhi Singh - Violin
Julian Azkoul - Violin
Ruth Gibson - Viola
Stephanie Tress - Cello
Joe Reiser - Electronics

Read about the piece here: https://bennobuto.com/serenity-20

SERENITY 2.0

of510,  dont expect clarity from the processor music

Vekka is not happy

 the soundscape is outdated and not canon

Vekka

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 flute, yangqin and electronics.

video: https://youtu.be/PaXKxq61fs4

performed by Dan Shao and Mantawoman (Reylon Yount).
premiered at San Mei Gallery, London in May 2022.
commissioned by Tangram.

about the piece: https://bennobuto.com/i-carry-your-heart

i carry your heart

white space [2015]

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

'Tell me again' is a work for piano, handbells and video that asks a simple question over and over again. Each time the music moves towards some kind of answer, the narrative gets side-tracked and we arrive back at the opening question. Eight hand bells sit above the piano, each corresponding to a different voice, from Eckhart Tolle and Thich Nhat Hanh to Youtubers and Metaverse engineers. Like switches, the bells trigger the voices to appear in seemingly random sequences, like switching channels on a TV. Throughout the piece, the performer becomes a kind of manic, multitasking machine, and it’s up to them whether they can pull themselves away from the noise to find a moment of stillness.

Commissioned by UK New Artists and premiered at Leicester City Takeover Festival in February 2022.

Video: https://youtu.be/MZDdOMxt6AE?si=f3-lPI9thSLYn9iV

Tell me again

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COVER ART BY @flagrastama (again :D) WOOOOOOOOOO go follow her or else.

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Your journey has led you to a mysterious looking portal. Holes in the floor try to bite you and the tentacles sticking from it get more erratic the closer you come. Your instincts tell you it's a bad idea, but you feel an irresistible urge to see what's on the other side. The light is so bright and shiny...the ambience coming from it, so soothing. And it's not like you have much to look forward to in your own world..."fuck it", you say, and get past the tentacles.

You take a step into the unknown and suddenly feel the light surrounding you and filling your entire body. It feels...stretchy. Maybe a little too stretchy. It keeps pushing and pushing and pushing and your skin feels tighter and tigher and...

Oh. You died. Like, combusted.

I don't really know what to do now, I wasn't prepared for that situation.  

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While "INTRUDER" was somewhat a teaser for my 2024 album, this is just a very out of pocket random release lol. I was asked to make a song with the vague concept of "main character dying in the middle of the song'' and I proceeded to do just that! Made this one all in one session and it was so.fun.to.make. Hope you enjoy, much more things coming very, very soon ;>.

God's Ego Death

went into the gardens to get some shitty field recordings to work with, but i accidentally passed through the waldtor and some bum-ass fungus sprites jumped me. they put a bag over my head with some weird mushroom spores or something and that shit knocked me tf out. i think they stole my name cuz i can't remember shit so i gotta get a new one lol. also I found this on my field recorder when i woke up but it was mixed like shit so whatevaa

Three Studies

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