new ensemble under Ed Spanjaard
Live performance
Instrumentation: 
flute, oboe, bass clarinet, guitar, mandolin, piano, harpsichord, percussion, harp, vn, va, vc, db

In Lame Butterfly, the sound world of the plucked-sting instruments greatly influences the sonority of the whole ensemble.
The musical fabric is layed out in duos, hypo-duos (one single instrument takes on a dual role on some musical level), and hyper-duos (goups of instuments are fused to create two independent groups, two simultaneous musical entities).
The instruments' location on the stage, the movement of the conductor’s hands, the name of the piece itself, it all refer to a somewhat sadly imperfect symmetry that was present since the beginning, in the musical ideas for the piece.
-Erik Oña (1996)

Lame Butterfly (1996) for ensemble - LIVE

Erik Oña - composer