for the centenary celebrations of Conservatoire de Fontainebleau
performed at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Centern, New York City by:
I. B. Kucukdogan (violin)
Carol McGonnell (bass clarinet)
M. Cetiz (piano)

Shades of Twilight (2022) for violin, bass-clarinet, and piano

A meditative immersion into the depths of rivers and lakes, with sounds from hydrophones and a synth instrument. Sounds recorded with the MAGMA hydrophone created by Jorge Barco at the Maas and Jekker rivers in Maastricht and at Lake Como in Italy, and melody played with the Omniphone created by Arvid&Marie.

Lagos Y Ríos De Energía Ondulante

closure/completion

There will be track art later but I feel really excited to finally get this out. i've been working on this piece on and off for 2 years and I think its the best electronic piece I've made so far. I think I'm starting to find my production style here :)

-Commentary-
This piece is a reimagining of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D as a Party song. I took inspiration from F-777, specifically the "Let's Freaking Party" album. I use three important motives from that piece and morph them into something completely different, but still reminiscent. The motives in question are the opening of the toccata, the theme of the fugue, and the top voice from the first sequence in the fugue. The year in the title is the furthest back estimate to when this piece may have been composed. the range is huge so I wasn't sure what year to pick. I decided the edges should probably be more recognizable vs leaning further into the pun with 1799.

Party like its 1705

after Conlon, Carson, Nederland, Nederland, etc�

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commissioned | Het Orgelpark
for | The Busy Drone, mechanical and midi-controlled barrel organ
premiered | Het Orgelpark, October 27, 2023
photo | Julia Bovee <3

The Busy Drone Barrel Organ | To Make a Joyful Noise

intus, ergo foris (within, hence outward) 
for chamber orchestra

Talea Ensemble

Conductor: David Fulmer

Audio:  George Katehis

Elebash Hall - Graduate Center, May 8.

intus ergo foris - for chamber orchestra

Santiago Beis Spletna

Momenta Quartet
(Alex Shiozaki, violin; Stephanie Griffin, viola;  Michael Haas, violoncello)
February 19, 2017
Scandinavia House, New York

Remastered by Yoshiaki Onishi

Score: https://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p2213_Envoi-II.html
Parts: https://www.editiongravis.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p2278_Envoi-II.html

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Commissioned by Music From Japan (New York).

When I wrote my Culs-de-sac (en passacaille) for string quartet in 2009, it was evident to me that I should develop the sonic soundscape that I have created in that piece. I have decided that I write Les six aspects du néant, a cycle of compositions for string quartet and its subsets.

Envoi II marks the fourth piece that I completed in this cycle. Envoi is another series of pieces I have been working on since 2015. In this piece, these two cycles intersect in their compositional and affective senses.

This piece relates itself to the cycle Les six aspects du néant, for its compositional materials are taken from the pieces within that cycle that I have already written. These materials have been then worked out once again in order to compose this piece.

In its literary sense, an envoi (or envoy) is an author’s concluding words, or a short stanza that concludes a ballade. In modern French, it is a word frequently used to denote the action of “sending off” (packages or letters) or simply “sending” (one’s best wishes, etc.). While its author is specific, the recipient could be, depending on the context, open-ended. It may be to someone alive, or it may be to a fictional character, or someone deceased.

As I started to write this piece, I received the news that James Deitz, percussionist whom I have been privileged to know since my time during the graduate studies at Yale University, departed from this world. This piece is dedicated to his memory.

Many thanks are due to Prof. Fuyuko Fukunaka, musicologist at Tokyo University of the Arts who extended the opportunity to write this work for the Music From Japan Festival 2017, Mr. Naoyuki Miura and Ms. Mari Ono, organizers of Music From Japan (New York), and the members of Momenta Quartet.

- Yoshiaki Onishi

Envoi II - for string trio (2016)

wolfram schurig - konzert für violine und 19 instrumente
ivana pristasova-vl/PHACE/joe trafton-dir

konzert für violine und 19 instrumente

texte: daniela danz
agata zubel - sopran
klangforum wien
johannes kalitzke - dirigent

fünf ostinati für sopran und 14 instrumente

Collegium Novum Zürich
Emilio Pomàrico, Dirigent

Mitschnitt einer Aufführung vom 30. Oktober 2018 in der Tonhalle Maag, Zürich.

Tonmeister: Leandro Gianini

Emmanuel Nunes (1941 – 2012): "Un calendrier révolu" für Ensemble (1968)

Yoshiaki Onishi is a Japanese-American composer, conductor, and clarinetist. As a composer, he is interested in exploring a wide range of instrumental timbres and finding ways to incorporate them in musical syntaxes and forms that disrupt the sense of expectation. He has worked on commissions that have come from such festivals and organizations as Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Takefu International Music Festival, and Gaudeamus Muziekweek, and his music has been performed by ensembles worldwide, including New Japan Philharmonic, Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, Nieuw Ensemble, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima and JACK Quartet. He is the recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2018 Fromm Commission, and the Gaudeamus Prize 2011. Edition Gravis in Berlin, Germany publishes his music. As a conductor deeply engaged in promoting the music of today, he is Co-Director for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and was one of the founding members of Ensemble Exophonie Tokyo. Other ensembles he has worked with as a conductor include Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, ECCE Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Columbia University Orchestra and the University Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Missouri. Increasingly active as a clarinetist and improviser, he has collaborated with composers George Lewis, Carolina Heredia, Oswald Huỳnh, Bret Bohman, and Andrew Crossley. Together with Santiago Beis, he plays in the Onishi-Beis Duo, an electroacoustic improvisation duo. Onishi received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2015. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Composition at the University of Delaware School of Music. 

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Envoi II - for string trio (2016)

Yoshiaki Onishi

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