Chamber Music

hum’s almanac partners: [“Ensemble Zeitfluss”] instruments: [“Flute”, “Bass Clarinet in b”, “Saxophone”, “Bassoon”, “Percussion”, “Piano”, “Violin”, “Viola”, “Cello”, “Contrabass”] The rhythmical structure for this composition was created using weather data collected by the Met Éireann weather station that is positioned at Belmullet, County Mayo in Ireland. At the time, I was very interested in observing naturally occuring processes and letting them structure the composition. Similar to the types of aleatoric processes used by composers like John Cage in the 20th century. [Read More]

Bird and Pine partners: Matej Bunderla, Ivan Trenev, RTVSlovenia, Hristina Takovska instruments: Saxophone, Accordion, Harmonium Through the Balkans in Summer with a bunch of musicians from all over Europe and Asia. This piece was written quickly for Hristina Takovska, who had the good sense to pester me enough until I agreed to climb into a car and drive for 2000km in the height of the summer. 17symmetries Bird and pine [Read More]

A concert at esc im labor in Graz, Austria.

fretae phonis for a concert that took place in the Kevin Barry Room at the National Concert Hall, Dublin hosted by the Irish Composer’s Collective A simple geometric process transforms harmonic material, from section to section, in the acoustic space. It was writ without an idea of semantic structure. In other words, with a lot of curiosity and not that much technical know-how. Many of the works from around this time were playing around with these sort of “elastic” structures. [Read More]