MARC YEATS (UK)
THE ROUND AND SQUARE ART OF MEMORY 1999 - 33´
3333 - 4331 - 6 Perc - Hrf - Str
"Two natures of music are explored; the fluid and horizontal (round) and the rhythmic and vertical (square). "
OLIVER RAPPOPORT (SPAIN)
METANOIA 2009 - 12´
324Asax3 - 4331 - 5Perc - Str
"...an evolving sound capturing the audience´s attention".
MARC YEATS (UK)
PAGAN II 1996 - 16´
3333 - 4331 - Pk+4 - Pno - Str
"Pagan II is not intended to be a desolate pronouncement on our future, rather a glimpse of the unthinkable."
FREDRIK GRAN (SWEDEN)
IMMINENT CROSSINGS 2008 - 13´
333Sax3 - 3331 - Tmp+3 - Guit - Pno - Str
"...a reflection on the effects of recorded media on
how music is experienced".
BRIAN CIACH (USA)
COLLECTIVE UNCOMMON:
SEVEN ORCHESTRAL STUDIES ON MEDICAL ODDITIES 2012 - 24´
3243 - 4331 - 3Perc - Timp - Hrp - Pno/Cel - Str
"...inspired by the Mütter Museum, a medical oddities museum in Philadelphia".
VERONIQUE VAKA (ICELAND)
LENDH 2018 - 10´
3333 - 4231 - Pk+3 - Hrf - Str
"This musical composition is an expression of what I see, hear and feel in unspoiled nature: a poetic linkage of the senses."
JAMES DIAZ (COLOMBIA)
MIRRORS IN THE VOID 2017 - 12´
3333 - 4331 - Timp+3 - Hrp - Pno - Str
"...different kinds of textures live together within multiple temporalities".
RODRIGO LIMA (BRAZIL)
SOL A PINO 2019 - 12´
3333 - 4331 - Pk+3 - Pno/Cel - Str
"Everything chants... stone body soul people zenith sun indian color plant sound zenith sun sky water time moon people ground zenith sun fire earth air soul people cycle zenith sun..."
BEN PHELPS (USA)
CIRCUS MAXIMUS 2006 - 10´
3333 - 3431 - 4Perc - Timp - Pno - Str
"...a maximal representation of an orchestral overture".
NUNO DA ROCHA (PORTUGAL)
RESTART 2015 - 21´
3333 - 4331 - 4Perc - Str
"...a small Bach choral painted by Francis Bacon".
VERONIQUE VAKA (ICELAND)
RIFT 2017 - 10´
3333 - 4331 - Pk+3 - Hrf - Pno - Str
"Rift is the mapping of Búrfellsgjá's landscape, and I re-imagined the eruption of Búrfell, which occurred around 8000 years ago."
WILL HEALY (USA)
KOLMANSKOP 2016 - 11´
3333 - 4321 - 3Perc - Hrp - Pno/Cel - Str
"...depicts the idea of decay as the sand fills the houses, the sense of loss, nostalgia and the passage of time".
DANIEL DAVIS (PORTUGAL)
FROM THE LAST BREATH 2014 - 12´
3333 - 4331 - Timp - 1Perc - Hrp - Str
"...spreading out the whole orchestral palette to explore and experience the relationship of sonic elements through color, sound, and emotion".
MARC YEATS (UK)
I SEE BLUE 1995 - 14´
3333 - 4331 - 1 Perc - Hrf - Pno - Str
"…turbulent materials from lyrical to cataclysmic.."
NUNO DA ROCHA (PORTUGAL)
I COULD NOT THINK OF THEE AS PIECÈD ROT 2014 - 10´
3333 - 4331 - 2Perc - Soprano - Str
"...the madness and the poetics of losing someone.".
THURÍDUR JÓNSDÓTTIR (ICELAND)
FLOW AND FUSION 2002 - 12´
3122Sax2 - 2210 - 3Perc - MIDI Keyboard - Str
"...different streams of glowing hot magma coming together in one surging lava-flow which cools down, becomes a rock…and echoes".
MEDIUM ORCHESTRA
BRIAN HARMAN (CANADA)
SUPPOSED SPACES 2010 - 16´
3222 - 4231 - 3 Perc - Pno - Str
"...explores the intersection between music and architecture".
JAMES DIAZ (COLOMBIA)
CADENZA 2018 - 8´
2222 - 4331 - Timp+3 - Hrp - Pno/Cel - Str
"...inspired by the architectural design of the Riverside Church’s Tower in Manhattan".
ALYSSA WEINBERG (USA)
IN SOMNIS 2014 - 7´
2222 - 4231 - Timp+2 - Solo Violin - Str
“…In somnis, latin for ‘in sleep’ or ‘in a dream’, was inspired by Picasso’s 1932 painting The Dream…"
SERGIO RODRIGO (BRASIL)
PLAGE DES AMOURS 2014 - 4´
2222 - 2230 - 3Perc - Hrp - Str
"...the movement of water and the sensation of fluidity".
NISSIM SCHAUL (USA)
SCRATCHING THE ICE 2010 - 8´
2222 - 3220 - Perc - Timp - Str
"...while all around you is motion, in the mirror, there is ice".
SMALL ORCHESTRA
BRIAN CIACH (USA)
THE EINSTEIN SLIDE 2012 - 8´
1121 - 1110 - 2Perc - Pno - Str
"...inspired by a medical slide of Albert Einstein's brain".
MATAN PORAT (ISRAEL)
MADRIGALS 2009 - 15´
String Orchestra - Solo Mandolin
"...by Gesualdo’s miraculous madrigal, Mercè grido piangendo".
FREDRIK GRAN (SWEDEN)
PICTURES OF FIELDS WITHOUT FENCES 2006 - 8´
String Orchestra
"...a meditation on the inevitable transformation or obsolescence of things".