Chamber music

 

 

Punctuation marks
for flute, clarinet, piano (or accordion), violin and cello ~ 15' (2008)

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eNsemble

Commissioned by eNsemble, Russia
Published by Editions Jobert

Programme note
Punctuation marks guarantee coherency of the text, its logic, syntax, and intonation. In music, the role of punctuation marks historically play caesuras, pauses, and cadences. Invisible punctuation marks divide parts of the form, steps of sequences and so forth. Can they exist outside the text? Will they get their own meaning when liberated from the text structured by them? Will they lose their functionality being removed from a habitual context, or will they gain a new one? A traffic light in the middle of desert: is it the symbol of freedom or of loneliness? These questions are principle for the composition which is, as the matter of fact, an attempt of rythmisation of silence.

Previous performances

May 28, 2013 - Perm, Russia
Diaghilev festival
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
May 28, 2013 - Perm, Russia
Diaghilev festival
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Apr. 23, 2013 - Yekaterinburg, Russia
Philharmonic hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 31, 2013 - Moscow, Russia
Glinka museum
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 23, 2013 - St-Petersburg, Russia
Skorohod
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 15, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine
Goethe-Institut Hall
Ensemble Nostri Temporis
Apr. 25, 2013 - Moscow, Russia
Philharmonic chamber hall
Carte blanche ensemble
Apr. 9, 2012 - Tomsk
Music college hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Apr. 5, 2012 - Paris
CRR de Boulogne Billancourt
Ensemble l'Itineraire
March 22, 2012 - Paris
MPAA/Auditorium Saint-Germain
Ensemble l'Itineraire
Sept. 3, 2011 - Tchaikovsky, Russia
Muscial college
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 30, 2011 - Skopje, MacedoniaCity Museum
Days of Macedonian Music
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Dec. 21, 2011 - Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Arsenal
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Jan. 12, 2010 - Paris, France
CDMC
Ensemble 2E2M, Pierre Roullier
Nov. 27, 2009 - Perm, Russia
Contemporary art museum
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Nov. 23, 2009 - Moscow, Russia
Moscow Autumn, Moscow composers' houseв,
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Nov. 11, 2009 - Buenos Aires, Argentinaв
Teatro San Martin, KNM
Apr. 19, 2009 - St.-Petersburg, Russia
Central communication museum
Pythian games
eNsemble

 

dissecta... still life
with bows and surfaces, horn or trombone with 2 bows, piano with 2 bows, kettle drum with 2 bows, cello with 2 bows, double-bass with 2 bows
~12'-15' (variable) (2007)

About

Ensemble Chorum

Commissioned by eNsemble, Russia,
Published by Editions Jobert

Programme note
It is rather a pantomime than a musical composition. Musicians manipulate their instruments as abstract objects regardless their direct and usual musical purpose. The author considers a sound as the inevitable consequence of a gesture, while a gesture as the indispensable condition of a sound. Sometimes the sound is hardly audible. However, the very tactile perception of sounds, performing and listening to the touch form the key material of the piece. Shapes of sounds appear while getting accustomed to the silence, as objects' shapes in darkness.

Previous performances
July 15, 2010 - Stuttgart, Germany
Summer Stuttgart festival
Ensemble 2E2M, Pierre Roullier
May 6, 2010 - Paris, France
Auditorium Marcel Landowski
Ensemble 2E2M, Pierre Roullier
Feb. 28, 2009 - Montreal, Canada
Montreal/New Music International Festiva
Chapelle-Historique-du-Bon-Pasteur
Ensemble Chorum
March 29, 2008 - St.-Petersburg, Russia
Central communication museum
eNsemble

 

[ob]version
ob, pn
~ 8' (2005)

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Previous performances
Jan. 17, 2013 - Moscow, Russia
Moscow Conservatory Rakhmamninov Hall
Anastasia Tabankova, Natalia Cherkasova
March 23, 2013 - Moscow, Russia
Philharmonic chamber hall
N. Cherkasova, A. Tabankova

 

 

Broken memory
vn, vc, pn
~ 13' (2005)

About

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Published by Editions Jobert

Programme note
In the "Broken memory" sound is treated as a consequence of a gesture. It is (the sound) determined by natural physical abilities and coordination (i.e. physiology) of musician on the one hand and the structure, acoustical parameters of the instrument on the other hand. Mostly gestures which produce unstable sound are used in the piece. Musicians find themselves in the situation of searching for sound, but not holding them. The duration of sounds in the piece depends on the length of the bow of string instruments. The idea of a circle is in the base of the piece: circle movements of bows and instruments, rotation of glass on the piano strings. The sequence of gestures is also cycled (looped). Thus, the piece stays as a kind of kinetic object which functions till the circle of actions will run out.

Previous performances
June 24, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraina
Boulgakov house
Ensemble Nostri Temporis
March 15, 2013 - Kiev, Ukraine
COURSE
Ensemble Nostri Temporis
May 19, 2010 - Paris, France
Theatre Dunois
Festival Extension
Ensemble Multilaterale
Apr. 15, 2009 - Moscow, Russia
Moscow State Philharmonics Chamber Hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 22, 2009 - Berlin, Germany
Juedisches Museum. Glashof
MaerzMusik
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
March 15, 2009 - Paris, France
Cite de la Musique
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Apr. 1, 2008 - Moscow, Russia
NCCA
Studio for New Music
Dec. 10, 2006 - Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Chamber hall of Rosctov Concervatoire
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Nov. 4, 2005 - Moscow, Russia
Scriabin museum
Respiro trio
Oct. 25, 2005 - Tilburg, the Netherlands
Cenakel
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oct. 23, 2005 - Eindhoven, the Netherlands Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Rabobankzaal
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oct. 22, 2005 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands Stedelijk museum
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oct. 19, 2005 - Moscow, Russia
Orchestrion hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oct. 18, 2005 - Voronezh, Russia
Philharmonia hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Oct. 16, 2005 - St.-Petersburg, Russia
Shemiakin foundation concert hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

 

Danc[e]inG
alto flute, alto saxophone, snare drum, viola and live electronics
~ 15' (2005)

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Commissioned by ensemble Integrales, Germany

Programme note

Previous performances
June 5, 2012 – Santiago de Compostela, Spain
CGAC - Contemporary Art Museum 
Vertixe Sonora Ensemble
Dec. 6, 2006 - Hamburg, Germany
opera stabile
Ensemble Integrales
Feb. 1, 2006 - Hamburg, Germany
opera stabile
Ensemble Integrales
June 23, 2005 - Bremen, Germany
Ensemble Integrales

 

Night-turn
versions for string quartet / string quintet
~ 12' (2004)

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Kairos quartet

Published by Le Chant du Monde

Programme note

Previous performances
May 31, 2011 - Berlin, Germany
Akademie der Künste
Sonar quartet
May 19, 2009 - Wien, Austria
Kulturcafe im Funkhaus Wien
Kairos quartet
March 22, 2009 - Berlin, Germany
Juedisches Museum. Glashof
MaerzMusik
Kairos quartet

 

Inside the movement
perc, hp, pn, cb
~ 10' (2004)

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EOC/NEM, Zsolt Nagy, cond.

Written for Composition session at Royaumont, France

Programme note

Previous performances
Mar. 4, 2006 - Helsinki, Finland
Musica Nova
Students from the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
Oct. 2, 2004 - Abbaye de Royaumont, France
Salle des charpentes
Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Composition Session
EOC/NEM, Zsolt Nagy, cond.

 

Resonant mass
perc
~ 9' (2002)

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Slagwerkgroep Den Haag

Programme note

Previous performances
Apr. 29, 2008 - Tillburg,the Netherlands
De Link / Cenakel
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Apr. 23, 2008 - Middelburg,the Netherlands
Muziekpodium Zeeland
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Dec. 6, 2007 - Den Bosch, the Netherlands
Toonzaal
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Nov. 17, 2007 - Eindhoven,the Netherlands, Axes
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Nov. 4, 2007 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Bimhuis
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Oct. 19, 2007 - Antwerpen,Belgium
Augustinus, [email protected]
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Dec. 3, 2006 - Belgrad, Serbia and Montenegra
Pogon Doma omladine
Percussion ensemble Ear Massage
Nov. 14, 2006 - Hague, the Netherlands
Paard van Troje
Slagwerkgroep den Haag
Sept. 4, 2006 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Muziekgebouw
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Gaudeamus Music Week
Aug. 11, 2006 - Halle 400, Kiel, Germany
Slagwerkgroep Den Haag
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

 

Seven circles
2vn, va, vc
~ 15' (2002)

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~#(:-&PER4Musicians
cl, pn, vn, vc
~ 9'30" (2002)

About

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Commissioned by Studio for New Music, Russia

Programme note
The composition's title may be decoded as an idea, which astonished me. However, there is no definite translation. It is a virtual language uncovering human emotions, which is used for the Internet and SMS communication. This sign system, which operates simple symbols, can transmit different moods, allowing the user a self-interpretation. The music is based on similar rules: each instrumental part is a combination of several repeating motives/symbols following one another.

Previous performances
Sept. 24, 2011 - Paris, France
Cité de la céramique - Sèvres
Ensemble L'itineraire
April 16, 2010 - Yekaterinburg, Russia
Art-Slovar modern art gallery
Moscow Ensemble
July 31, 2007 - Santa Fe, Argentina
Instituto Superior de Musica de la FHC de UNL
V Jordanas Santafesinas de Musica Contemporanea
Quinteto Sonorama
Dec. 28, 2006 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Quinteto Sonorama
Mar. 4, 2006 - Helsinki, Finland
Musica Nova
Students from the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia
May 26, 2005 - Kazan, Tatarstan
Saidashev hall
Europe-Asia festival
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Feb. 22, 2005 - St.-Peterburg, Russia
Glazunov hall
Youths Academies of Russia
Oct. 3, 2004 - Dresden, Germany
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Dresdner Tage der zeitgenossischen Musik
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Apr. 27, 2004 - Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Big hall of State conservatoire
Ilkhom-XX
Studio for New Music
Sept. 19, 2003 - Manchester, UK
Royal Northern College of Music
Ensemble 11 Young Composers Competition
Ensemble 11
Apr. 17, 2003 - Moscow, Russia
Rachmaninov hall
Moscow forum
Studio for New Music
Dec. 20, 2002 - Hague, the Netherlands
Korzo Theater
LOOS 20 Years Celebration Manifestation
Studio for New Music

 

Une histoire de la musique
tba, cb, b.dr
~ 10' (2001)

About

Studio for New Music

Published by Le Chant du Monde

Programme note
Piece is based on one note contraoctave E. Rhythms as well as the form of the piece in a whole are determined by simple digital progression. The title can be interpreted as one of musics histories not the global one, but local. At the same time it corresponds to the theory of the music history based on development of the spectrum of harmonics.

Previous performances
Oct. 23, 2012 - Wien, Austria
Wien modern
Ensemble Die Reihe, Christian Muthspiel, cond.
Sept., 2006 - Moscow, Russia
Rachmaninov hall
Studio for New Music
May 16, 2003 - Karlsruhe, Germany
Schloss Gottesaue
KlAngRiffe
Apr. 29, 2001 - Moscow, Russia
Rachmaninov hall
Moscow forum
Studio for New Music

 

FEGIS
vn, pn, perc
~ 7' (2001)

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