Ilya Ziblat Shay

works

audio-interactive interface / live video score   Exploring our perception of the digital realm and our existence as part of a virtual world: how we follow (and being followed by) digital interfaces, the (dis-)continuity of physical and virtual spaces and the online-offline nexus.   enter_phase is also an interactive...

For live musicians and computer, exploring the idea of climate activism and our collective social-environmental responsibility. The soundtrack was created using material from interviews I did with climate scientists, civil activists, and from field recordings of demonstrations and other events. SoundAttribution is a musical work, as...

  Live-electronics interface. The design inspired by analogue tape (reel-to-reel) composition techniques and uses granular synthesis techniques. The digital interface is used for real-time processing. The user controls the sound-processing parameters playing a touch-sensitive MIDI controller. hav(h)arot renders visible the physicality of computer performance – a performative aspect which...

  Post-apocalyptic piano miniature, written for and played by Hagai Yodan for his 60 SECONDS collection of piano miniatures. I composed this while environmental horrors were on my mind. 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...

Video score / interactive work, featuring speech segments by D. Trump....

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....

  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....

[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...

A work for young string players, commissioned and played by Josep Manresa and the Corelli Orchestra (ages 12-15, Vila-seca conservatory, Catalonia)...

      Signature Piece   Written for ensemble Klang (trombone, alto sax, tenor sax, elect. guitar, piano, percussion) performances: 25 May 2008, TAG, The Hague 5 Mar 2011, with video work by Shiri Limor. Korzo theater, The Hague       [ untitled, for ensemble and electronics ]   Written for ensemble Meitar→ ( fl....

  Live soundtracks for silent movies have a dual role: they function as a musical score that accompanies the movie's narrative, highlighting climax point and creating dramatic and psychological subtexts; as well as, they fill in the 'missing' post-production effects for these classic silent-film-era works. I was...