Morality play based on Aharon Shabtai
Ι am making an attempt here to reconstruct an event that is almost 45 years old, with some hesitation as to whether it is appropriate to conjure it up today, or better to leave it in the past. Today, this reconstruction requires some explanations or introductory remarks, which are of a somewhat didactic or apologetic […]
Recit-Aria
Yossi Gutmann and Ido Abravaya, RECITATIVO & ARIA FOR VIOLA POMPOSA AND CONTINUO A shared composition, based on a shared improvisation. The ‘baroque’ title can hardly conceal an impossible dialogue with two obsolete (or nonexistent) instruments. The ‘pomposa’ part was made with a violino terribilmente scordato, while the ‘continuo’ was delivered by an equally mistuned […]
O.R.M
Is based on a duo-improvisation with Yossi Gutmann. The source here is an electric organ, which I played, while my partner could modify the result through a ring-modulator and an oscilator. While he could not produce any sound of his own (or predict what I was going to do), I was totally dependent on his […]
ALTERNATIVO, or SEQUEL to OVERTURE
The first sound of the Overture served as the starting point of the present piece, with the piano, treated here not unlike the qanun in the former pieces serving as the as the main sound source. Some other materials are added, such as an Indian sitar or electronic sounds triggered by the piano, their rhythms […]
OVERTURE
Although its sonorities evoke a wind instruments, or an organ, this is actually a ‘piano piece’, where all sound attacks have been softened down, thus eliminating the percussive element of the piano.
LEIERMAN II
The title refers to Schubert’s famous song, with the thought what might have happened to Schubert’s poor street musician if he had to grind his organ (or some local instrument) in the scorching summer heat of the Middle East.
TOCCATA
A multi-sectioned work, not unlike the Baroque genre, with an emphasis on melody, all its sections being speech-like, measure-free and ‘pitch-free’.