My new work for mixed octet Fold explain fold leave is one of four selected for the Klangforum Wien reading session at Impuls 2011 in Graz, Austria.
A concert at the Museo del Barrio in New York, curated by composer/performer Angélica Negrón, will feature chamber works by the áltaVoz composers. It will be the first American performance of my recent piece, written in collaboration with Sam Salem, To what depths of dark pigment, for amplified cello, diffused audio and video.
Our new CD and download album is out and can be found in CDBaby, Amazon and iTunes (soon).
Album includes:
1. Postcard (5:02) – Felipe Lara
for clarinet and violin
2. Clinamen clinamen clinamen (14:20) – Mauricio Pauly
for mandolin, accordion, violin and viola
3. Intermezzo (4:30) – José Luis Hurtado
for prepared piano
4. Pensar Geométrico al Trasluz (9:34) – Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann
for flute, cello and percussion
5. Tarikapuy (9:06) – Pedro Malpica
for flute, cello and piano
Table-top performance w Rodrigo Constanzo
October 31st, sometime after 730 pm. Madlab, Northern Quarter, Manchester.
Also featuring:
Brona Martin – composer
Solitude-Silence A/V piece with a live soundtrack by Thomas Bjelkeborn and Mark Pilkington. Video edit by Michael Larsson.
Ricardo Climent – composer.
Pre-release / private rough-cut screening of: S.LOW – vip lounges are for ALL
My friend Angela Guyton (of Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern)’s painting based on my Forebe Aneba of 2005.
2005 was an odd year in terms of productivity. In terms of capital C composition I wrote only this one piece – 3 and a bit minutes for solo harpsichord -. That was however the year that, having rented an out of tune piano for our flat in Budapest, I wrote the first half of what would later be Leche Vaqera; a return to writing pop music after a rather long time.
Clarinet, electric guitar, cello, piano, quarter-tone vibraphone and small percussion.
Staubach Honoraria commission performed by the Norwegian ensemble ASAMISIMASA at the 2010 Darmstadt Internation Summer Course July 24th, 21:30 at the Orangerie Bessunger Str. 44, 64285 Darmstadt, Germany.
This photograph is from an open rehearsal session the day before the concert. From left: Ellen Ugelvik, Tanja Orning, Anders Førisdal, Rolf Borch and Håkon Stene.
The Educatable Rush / La Prisa Educable (2005)
for clarinet, cello, piano and electronics
Friday 30th April 2010
Psappha: Beat the Rush Hour concert
University of Manchester
www.psappha.com
Venue: The Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall
Time: 17:00
Admission Price: FREE
to be written for Joseph Brent and Bridget Kibbey who will premiere it in Savona (IT) and New York
Fall, 2010.
In 2008 Harry and Alice Eiler donated the Staubach Prize for the first time. Within the 45th International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt this prize has been changed into five Staubach Honoraria and his amount doubled.
The jury of three consisting of Hans Thomalla, Martin Iddon and Thomas Schäfer came to a decision in November 2009. The five by the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation donated awards went to: Stefan Prins (Belgium), Aaron Einbond (USA), Malin Bång (Sweden), Evan Gardner (USA/Norway) and Mauricio Pauly (Costa Rica).
–I will be writing a new piece for the Norwegian ensemble Asamisimasa [cl, elec. gtr, pn, perc, vc] to be rehearsed and premiered during the 2010 Darmstadt International Summer Course.
