Elfa Run Kristinsdottir: violin
Ekkehard Windrich: violin
Steffen Tast: violin
Valerio Tricoli: reel to reel tape recorder
DUST is a score which explores the possibilities of electro-acoustic music by using sustained clusters and glissandi performed by the strings while the tape recorder plays with the pitches and the speed of the textures. The resulting sonic layers are sent to the four speakers creating an intense and abstract cloud of sonic materia resonating in the space with physical dissonances.
DUST was premiered at Berghain in Berlin on the 25th of february 2010. In july 2010, DUST was performed at the Dampfzentrale in Bern along Post-prae-ludium per Donau by Luigi Nono. Further live performances of the piece are planned for 2010-2011 around Europe.
AUDIO: HERE
"DUST revisits devices, such as layered pre-recorded tracks arising from each corner of the room, using them again to create an increasing density of sonic events which blur the distinction between the live actions of the players--in this case the three instrumentalists--and their sonic shadows on tape. The score consists of glissandi and clusters stretching out over various lengths of time. These upwards and downwards motions were double, tripled and shifted through the live processing of perhaps one of the few living masters of the Revox tape machine, Valerio Tricoli. The edges which remain of the piece are sharp--jagged as a broken glass at times, or as fine as the surgeon's knife when the whole ensemble rose out to create a collective, piercing density". (macumbista).
This piece was created for the Sololala festival in Berlin where different works of Alvin Lucier were performed and features a sonic structure for tenor sax, quadraphonic system and backtape.
The material on the back tape consists of two parts. In the first one, a continuous cluster played in the high register of the saxophone is recorded. In the second, a cluster in the deepest register of the insrument is similarly recorded.
During the performance, the acoustic signal of the horn is amplified live with a microphone and sent to the two speakers of the quadraphonic sound system which are diagonal to eachothers
The backtape is played in the two others speakers resulting of the other diagonal of the square created by the 4 speakers.The live signal of the saxophone consists of micro intervals of the pitches played in the backtape resulting in intense waves of strong beatings.
The piece is meant to be played at a certain volume to get maximum efficiency in the beatings.
Nothing was premiered at the Sophiensaele, Berlin, for the Sololala festival on the 6th of december 2009 and will be performed at the Meteo festival in Mulhouse in august as well as at the Echtzeit festival in Berlin in september 2010.
audio soon.
Robin Hayward: tuba
Lucio Capece: bass clarinet
Derek Shirley: double bass
Antoine Chessex: tenor sax
Resonant Water is a site-specific composition created for the acoustic peculiarity of the St-Johannes Church in Berlin.The sustained layers of the instruments are slowly transformed by the architectural environment into a new soundscape, the church being used as a resonator.
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Metakatharsis is a piece commissioned by the Ensemble Phoenix in Basel which will be presented in 2011. The composition is strongly inspired by the works of Maryanne Amacher and Iannis Xenakis and will propose a score for orchestra including both electronic and acoustic instrumentations.
An hour long piece of electronic music to be developed in 2011.
For tuba & reel to reel tape recorder. In development, details soon.