Performance of Chamber Version
Luminosity Orchestra
February 24th, 2017
Pythian Temple, Tacoma, WA

Stalasso

The Map and the Territory (2020) | a 60 seconds reflexion
by Ruben Seroussi (b. 1959)

* World Premiere Recording *
| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

(photo by Eva Gentner)

Ruben Seroussi: The Map and the Territory | Hagai Yodan, piano

No 23 Serenades II-IV (2004), for Electric Guitar Quartet. Dan Lippel, (all) guitars. Studio recording 2021. (image: Repulsion - Ata Mohammadi)

From the album 'Aufs Lautenwerk' (2021)
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https://danlippelguitar.bandcamp.com/album/bach-aufs-lautenwerk-bandcamp-exclusive-edition-w-bonus-ep-of-new-adriaansz-ueno-works?fbclid=IwAR0K1Njy_kVPr8M5R-Di8UBPTn9UOYQrfFuC9S9bCo054l7OZPGD017BIZA

No 23 Serenades II - IV (2004)

| Frédéric Chopin's first piano ballade, op. 23

Frédéric Chopin: Piano Ballade no. 1, op. 23 | Hagai Yodan, piano

Labyrinth no. 3 - Sostenuto, free (from Labyrinths, 2005)
by Nadav Cohen (b. 1983)

| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Nadav Cohen: Labyrinth | Hagai Yodan, piano

Miniature à la manière de Pierre Boulez (2020)
by Yonatan Ron (b. 1992)

* World Premiere Recording *
| The Israeli Contemporary Music Project

Yonatan Ron: Miniature à la manière de Pierre Boulez | Hagai Yodan, piano

Album information: 
https://youtu.be/TFtbyrfRoFk?si=d7pUL8tpTmT4FLpM
https://music.apple.com/us/album/%E5%82%AC%E5%8C%96%E6%95%88%E6%87%89-%E8%9E%8D-%E5%85%B1%E6%84%9F-catalysis-fusion-of-senses-live/1685992904

Premiere: 3PeopleMusic Ensemble + Quatuor TANA
February 15, 2020. Le Phénix, France
Performances: 3PeopleMusic Ensemble + Taiwan String Quartet
five performances on June 3-5, 2022. Taipei, Taiwan

Pressed Flowers in Glass for three Chinese instruments and a string quartet

G.N.Z. for voice (tenor or other) and electronics
Tenor: Benjamin Alunni
Espace de Projection, IRCAM, Paris
September 21, 2023

Full performance available here:
https://medias.ircam.fr/x714fdd_gnz-omer-barash

G.N.Z. [excerpt]

Performance by the Inverted Space Ensemble
Chapel Performance Space, Seattle, WA, 10/25/2013

"Klaustrum" - for string trio

Performed by -Meitar Ensemble-

Marco Fusi - Violin
Moshe Aharonov - Viola
Yoni Gotlibovich - Cello

30.6.18 - Israeli Conservatory Of Music, Tel-Aviv.
Concert for the memory of Matan Givol.
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"Klaustrum" was composed during the winter of 2015 (mostly between October and  December, finished on January 2016)
At that time, my main focus revolved around large scale gradual transitions in musical textures, or in other words: Graspable long-lasting transformations.
This explains the wide use of repetitions, although non-identical. There is always at least one transformation of a single parameter.

Through a global view perspective, the piece deals with a very small musical cell (a narrow pitch range cluster in hetero-phonic texture), begging to emancipate itself to become more extroverted. To turn "open" as opposed to the closed cluster of the beginning. Only towards the end of the piece, this necessity for blossom, which functions as a resolution, turns audible and may be experienced.

The title is derived from a similar idea. Wide usage of a tone cluster that features a strong Middle Eastern identity is repeated several times throughout the piece. It continues by developing the same sonic matters and gradually transforms towards an explosive culmination.

| Yonatan Ron 2016 |

Klaustrum

The title "Tabula Russia" presents a phonetic and semantic allusion to the well-known Latin expression "tabula rasa" (blank slate). This is how the wax tablets used for notating texts were used in antiquity. Before a new text was inscribed, the old text was erased. 

The main sonar idea in my composition was the sound of the Russian low bell. In Russian bells, unlike most of the European ones, there is an oscillation not of the cupola, but of the bell, which makes it possible to mould very large bells that emit very low tones, extremely abundant in overtones. This primeval bell rumble forms a remarkable combination of the harmonious cosmos of overtones and the chaos of the multitude of "arbitrary" side-tones, a peculiar kind of sound "chaosmos." Chaos fraught with cosmos, with orderliness – this metaphor, as it seems to me, contains an important archetype of the Russian consciousness. Russia, being in search for its identity, continuously rewrites its own history, each time starting from a "tabula rasa".

Klaustrum

Yonatan Ron

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