This work, for solo tuba and live-electronics is the result of a close work with Melvyn Poore. It uses widely morphed sounds (tuba-voice) transformed live and spatialized over 4, 8 or more loudspeakers (at ZKM over the Klangdom).
It is composed on sonnet by John Donne:
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture[s] be,
Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou’rt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke ;  why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And Death shall be no more;  Death, thou shalt die.

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For prepared piano

Maria Grazia Bellocchio, pianoforte

Live recording at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 15 June 2021

Microliti (2021)

Carlo Ballarini: "Improvviso" primo pezzo da Cinqueperdue per violoncello e pianoforte
registrazione live
esecutori: Guido Boselli violoncello, Francesco Miotti pianoforte

Carlo Ballarini: "Improvviso" n. 1 Da Cinqueperdue Per Cello E Piano

No Verticals (2022), for alto saxophone

Performed by Alberto Cavallaro

Live recording, 9 October 2022, Barcelona

No Verticals (2022)

Intrépido y vago tlacuachito

The piece Dunkles zu Sagen is inspired by a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann, the title of which could be translated by the expression "to speak the obscure"...

Johanna Vargas, soprano 
Ensemble Court-circuit:
Alexandra Greffin-Klein, violin
Laurent Camatte, viola
Frédéric Baldassare, cello
Charles-Eric Fontaine, conductor

A piece written for Voix Nouvelles Royaumont 2023

Recorded by Radio France September 2023

Dunkles zu Sagen

Micro Images for Guitar by Hugo Vasco Reis 
· Hommage à Bartók 
· Hommage à Lutoslawski
· Hommage à Ligeti 
· Hommage à Kurtag 

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Live in October 2023 at the VIII Festival de Jóvenes Guitarristas José Luis Rodrigo in Madrid. 
Audio by RCSMM sound design students.

Micro Images for Guitar - Hugo Vasco Reis (live)

Diálogos… e… dos dias de luz: 
I, II, III, IV 

Live in 2019 (mono audio).

Diálogos… e… dos dias de luz - Paulo-Ferreira Lopes (live) [mono audio]

I am never anywhere / anywhere I go (2024)
for spatialized trio and special instruments (big barrel and aluminium cans)

Premiered on 04.2024 in the Foyer of the Conservatory of Mantua, Italy

Performers: 
mdi ensemble
Giorgio Casati (Cello)
Paolo Casiraghi (Bb Clarinet)
Sonia Formenti (Piccolo flute)

"I am never anywhere, anywhere I go" is a piece for spatialized trio and sound object. Clarinet, piccolo and cello are disposed at the vertices of a triangle, in the center of which a special instrument is placed: a barrel that acts as a resonator to a metal grid, which the musicians gradually approach to play through bows and cans.
The spectral and timbral properties of this 'new instrument,' as well as the visual and gestural implications it brings to the performance, are the object of research in this work. The attempt at an organic homogeneity of sound, despite the different sources from which it comes, together with the extremely resonant acoustic environment of the foyer help to accentuate the concept that gives the piece its title: "wherever I go, I am nowhere."

I am never anywhere / anywhere I go (2024), for spatialized trio and special instruments

String quartet n°3 (2016) NEXT - New Ensemble Xenia Turin

Violins: Adrian Pinzaru, Eilis Cranitch; Viola: Mizuho Ueyama; Cello: Claudio Pasceri
Work commissioned by the EstOvest Festival

I 0:01 II 4:10 III 6:52 IV 12:09 V 16:30 VI 20:35

String Quartet n°3 (2016)

Concerto pour Piano et Ensemble (12 players)
Yumi Suehiro (Piano solo) Ensemble Mise-en (cond. Yoon Jae Lee)

Concerto pour piano et ensemble (2019)

The works of the composer and conductor, Valerio Sannicandro, are the product of different cultural influences and of his own reflections about the parameter 'space' that he researches consequently, first as compositeur associé at IRCAM (Paris), then at the Technische Universität (Berlin) where he got a Ph.D. in Musicology and at Experimentalstudio (Freiburg). Compositions like Strali (2002), Fibrae (2005), Ius Lucis (2006/2007) and Forces Motrices (2010) are the most outstanding examples of his interest in large orchestral instrumentations, as well as of his concern with the role and the aesthetic of (live) electronics. He is currently working at Experimentalstudio of SWR (Freiburg) on Finesterrae, a new work for voices, viola and live-electronics. He has been awarded among others the Claudio-Abbado Prize from the Academy of Berlin Philharmonics in 2014, the Musica Viva Composition Prize, München in 2002 and 2010, the Giga-Hertz production Prize as well as the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (2000). His works have been recorded on CD for Wergo and Telos Music Records. He has been invited at the Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto) and is new music advisor at the Philharmonisches Orchester Cottbus (Germany). His works are published by Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni (Milan).

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