Ilya Ziblat Shay

llya Ziblat Shay

Author: ilya

Live-electronics computer interface / work, inspired by analogue tape composition techniques and by granular synthesis processing. I use the interface to process sampled audio, and in particular voice material, thus putting the focus of this work on speech and on language. The interface allows me to...

  Post-apocalyptic piano miniature, written for and played by Hagai Yodan for his 60 SECONDS collection of piano miniatures. Hagai Yodan, piano...

For ensemble and computer-controlled organ, commissioned and played by ensemble CatchPenny, Orgelpark (Amsterdam)...

For amplified bass flute, violin, cello, contrabass, and soundtrack. Commissioned and played by Eutopia Ensemble, Palazzo Tursi, Genova...

Contribution to Practice Sharing, an online presentation of expanded approaches to language-based practice within the field of artistic research (2020)....

live-electronics work / computer interface, real-time processing of samples...

  Live soundtrack for Jean Epstein’s silent film The Faithful Heart (Cœur fidèle, 1923). Premiered in Sounds of Silence festival→, the De Nieuwe Regentes, The Hague (29/10/ 2021) with: • Marie Guilleray (voice, electronics) • Onno Govaert (percussion) • Arvind Ganga (elect. guitar) • Ilya Ziblat (contrabass) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5P3hh2aXSE  - trailer -...

String instruments and live electronics, digital release / excerpts from a live set @ Performance Bar, WORM Rotterdam...

  PhD dissertation Academy of Creative and Performing Arts Leiden University, The Netherlands Supervisors: Prof.dr. Marcel Cobussen (Leiden University), Prof.dr. Richard Barrett (Royal Conservatory of The Hague/ Institute of Sonology/ Leiden University) https://www.freedomandfixity.com/ →   Abstract: Between Freedom and Fixity: Artistic Reflections on Composition and Improvisation is a practice-based research project that aims...

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....

Live soundtrack for F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922). For percussion, bass, live-electronics....

  For two pianos. The work explores elasticity of rhythm: through constant stretching and shrinking of the pulse I create a fictitious musical dimension in which the beat becomes a liquid-like element – rather than a periodic, monotonous pulse.   Recorded at the A. Schönberg zaal , the...

An interactive live-electronics system. The Instrument can be performed in a concert setting or as a sound installation....

  Maya Felixbrodt (viola, electronics), Tomer Harari (electronics, harmonium, objects) Ilya Ziblat Shay (contrabass, electronics)   On the verge between acoustic and electronic, improvised and composed, Hatzatz ("gravel" in Hebrew) was an experimental trio, active between 2010-2013. The music was created as a collaborative working process and...

[Untitled, 2012] is a composition for contrabass and electronics. The electronic sounds provide the role of accompaniment – a pre-composed “rhythm section” – and the bass player takes the lead role as the “soloist.” A pre-recorded soundtrack functions as a rhythmic grid into which the...

  Commissioned by ensemble Meitar→. For fl. cl. vl. vla. vcl. pno. and live-electronics Premiere: 5 July 2012 Levontin 7, Tel Aviv, Israel (ensemble Meitar, cond. Guy Feder) ...