“memories of a stone skipping the skin of the Water on the Lake” is about the repetition of a still image that moves in the memories of the mind. There are five versions of this musical single memory, each one being different from the others; and the difference is due to repetition, since transformation occurs through repetition.

This piece intends to experiment with internal and aural perception of time, the idea of being in sync, and trying to be in sync, aurally and internally. 

* This piece was composed for the Composer Conference Ensemble, as part of the Fromm Fellow Composer Conference Festival 2021

memories of a stone skipping the skin of the water on the lake-August 2021

Aqueeressence
Yoshi Weinberg, flute
Daniel Schreiner, piano

Live performance at The Graduate Center (CUNY) Elebash Hall. 

Olivier Messiaen's "Le Merle Noir" for flute and piano was written in 1952 as a test piece for the Conservatoire de Paris. This was Messiaen's first piece to imitate the song of a single bird species, the Blackbird.

Messiaen - Le Merle Noir

ornithology of desire for was commissioned by InfraSound Ensemble as part of their 23/24 season. It is scored for three spatialized piccolos and electronics. 

Performed on November 11th, 2023 by InfraSound Ensemble
"Portals Between Worlds," LGBT Center of New York
Yoshi Weinberg, Stefanie Proulx, and Megan Torti, piccolos
Alex Ring Gray, electronics

ornithology of desire (2023) for three piccolos and electronics

Commissioned by Americas Society

Performers: Charlotte Mundy, Soprano
Yoshi Weinberg, flutes
Madison Greenstone, clarinets
Russell Greenberg, percussions
Kathryn Sloat, harp
Alec Goldfarb, electric guitar
Pala Garcia, violin
Thea Mesirow, cello
Tristan Kasten Krause, double bass
Yanqi Chen, electronics
Sebastian Zubieta, conductor

Mixing and Mastering by Murat Çolak at GERYON Label.

Mors Osculi (Live performance)

Samuel Lord Kalcheim

Do I Wake or Sleep? for Chamber Orchestra

Reading by Contemporaneous at Inaugural Contemporaneous Open Mic Event 
March 4th, 2025
Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn NY 

Do I Wake or Sleep? for Chamber Orchestra

"I Will Not Be Sad in This World" by Eve Beglarian

Yoshi Weinberg, alto flute

I Will Not Be Sad In This World by Eve Beglarian

(2013 revised 2015) for flute, vibraphone, piano & cello

Seven Songs is a re-arrangement/re-conception of a piece I wrote in 2011, originally scored for soprano sax, acoustic guitar, harp and percussion. In that original version, each of the seven movements really was like a song, with a simple melody, accompaniment or motive.

This new version retains many of the features of the old, including the order of the movements, the general structure of the piece, and the simplified harmonic language. But it distills and fractures the melodies and rhythms of the original: sometimes that means greater rhythmic detail and complexity, sometimes it means creating different ways of playing together, and sometimes it means eliminating everything from a movement except one small gesture, and exploring that gesture in much greater detail. The resultant set of songs is, hopefully, still emotionally direct and clear, but also freer, more elusive and continuously transforming. The piece now seems to be more like a set of spaces or empty rooms than a set of songs, each movement opening up onto the next space, the light slowly changing.

Performed at the nief-norf Festival 2016. Joshua Weinberg, flute; Aaron Gochberg, percussion; Daniel Schreiner, piano; Sophie Chang, cello.

Seven Songs (2015 version)

The piece is based on a poem by Yadollah Royaee. 

" when desertion 
drew a habit of circle
in the circle of habits
the habit of return
and turn
until the shape of desertion
gets lost in the habit" 

Translated by Deniz Khateri
Image: Abstract Painting by KOEN LYBAERT

Escape- گریز for Alto Flute and electronics 2016

Eva-Maria Houben: Voice with Harp

Two Songs with Piano - 1

Flute, Adam Eydelson
Electronics, Yanqi Chen
Cover Painting, Gerhard Richter. Clouds. 1982.

I Will Not Be Sad In This World by Eve Beglarian

Yoshi Weinberg

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