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occasionally also working with other bands and ensembles from the contemporary classical world. writing music for them and, if possible, also performing with them on stage. here is a selection of compositions from the past years(2020-now)<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
between regions of partial shadow and complete illumination
2022, for ensemble mondrian (*link*)
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15. Speaking of dreams, there’s always a moment when, after you finish playing or listening to Taylor’s music at full intensity, it feels like waking up from a dream. To engage with it is to enter a reality with clear rules that are nonetheless unknowable, informed by everything you are, yet like nothing you’ve experienced before.
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Taylor Ho Binum, "Forty-Four Thoughts for Cecil Taylor" (2022)
Ivana Pristasova – violin
Petra Ackermann – viola
Karolina Öhman – violoncello
Tamriko Kordzaia – piano
video credit: marcel babadazeh
sixty feet below, nature is absent
2021-2022, for latenz ensemble (*link*)
„It is like realizing that for some time you had been conducting your business in the expanding sphere of a slow motion nuclear bomb. [...] The trouble with global warming is that it’s right here. It’s not behind a glass screen. It is that glass screen, but it’s as if the glass screen starts to extrude itself toward you in a highly uncanny, scary way that violates the normal aesthetic propriety [...] in which there should be a Goldilocks distance between you and the art object, not too close, not too far away. Global warming plays a very mean trick. It comes very, very close, crashing onto our beaches and forcing us to have cabinet meetings underwater to draw attention to our plight, and yet withdrawing from our grasp in the very same gesture, so that we can only represent it by using computers with tremendous processing speed.“
Timothy Morton, Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World in posthumanities 27
violin - Hannah Schoepe
viola - Catarina Marques
cello - Pirii Pimentel Rodrigues
flute - Isabelle Meraner
bass clarinet - Paula Häni
bass trombone - Jonas Inglin
accordion - Laura Mehmeti
percussion - Fabio Da Santos Silva
laptop/performance - Pierre Delignies
live electronics/composition - Felix Nussbaumer
video credit: felix nussbaumer, emilio guim
kerbe
2021
Sonya Suldina - violin i
Katharina Böck - violin ii
Anastasia Agapova - viola
Polina Niederhauser - violoncello
video credit: emilio guim
from tail to tooth
2021, for nora vetter & silke strahl
in the months and years following the attacks of 9/11, U.S. military and special forces conducted raids and operations to capture individuals with suspected ties to al-qaeda and allied organizations in their ongoing war on terror. many of them became detainees in secret military prisons outside of U.S. territory, where they were tortured brutally, though very schematically, following the procedure of so-called 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. these tactics included waterboarding, stress positions, sleep deprivation and beatings. one of the largest of these detention facilities is guantanamo bay, cuba. among the prisoners held there is a man called abu zubaydah. during his time in a militant islamist training camp, he was critically injured in the skull by shrepnel. sources differ as to what his medical conditions entail. what seems consistent among most reports are frequent seizures and other neurological conditions, as well as delusion, dissociation and schizophrenia. he was captured by the U.S. in february of 2002. he has reportedly been waterboarded at least 82 times. according to certain sources, he has slipped into states of delirium during interrogations, starting to relate the plots of hollywood movies such as 'godzilla' to the interrogators. at the time of writing (october of 2021), zubaydah is still held at guantanamo bay. the U.S. sees him as a valuable source of information. this piece is concerned with the construction of information in the age of torture and counter-terrorism.
Felix Nussbaumer - tenor saxophone
Nora Vetter - viola
Emilio Guim - live electronics
video credit: emilio guim
metakörper i
2020, for tenor saxophone and electronics
Felix Nussbaumer - tenor saxophone, composition
video credit: emilio guim