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instrumental / vocal

Live soundtrack for Jean Epstein’s silent film The Faithful Heart (1923). Together with Ziv Taubenfeld (b. clarinet), Marie Guilleray (voice, electronics), Onno Govaert (percussion), and myself (bass)....

Musical game / text score, guiding the players (musicians or non-musicians) to improvise by narrating a silenced YouTube clip. Published online in Synzine #5, an online zine for musical games....

For ensemble (open instrumentation). The musicians alternate between solo and group playing, and the work also features voices however without prescribed text, resulting in pseudo language open for free interpretation....

Stations and Journeys is a notated / open score work for ensemble (of at least 8 musicians). The work was commissioned by Ensemble Modelo62....

Trembling Time (for two pianists) explores elasticity of rhythm. Through constant stretching and shrinking of the pulse I am trying to create a fictitious musical dimension in which the beat becomes almost a liquid-like musical element, rather than dictates by an even and constant pulse....

Work for young string players, commissioned by conductor Josep Manresa for the Corelli Orchestra (Vila-seca conservatory, Catalonya). It is a "didactic" composition, aimed  to introduce 20th century instrumental techniques and improvisation for young musicians (ages 12-15). I had the amazing opportunity to work with these young – and extremely serious – musicians, and to see how they interpret my ideas about composition and improvisation in the most inquisitive and engaged way.