Radio Broadcast — [to be enveloped by] BLACK

Posted on May 27, 2019June 3, 2019 Posted in Media, News, Recordings, UncategorizedTagged 2019, Aldo Tambellini, Anne Montaron, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, BLACK, Broadcast, Création Mondiale, Cycle, Double Bass, Ensemble Multilatérale, France, Léo Warinsky, Miniatures, Paris, Percussion, Performance, Piano, Podcast, Radio broadcast, Radio France, Seine Musicale, Violoncello, Yann Robin, [to be enveloped by] BLACKLeave a comment

My new piece [to be enveloped by] BLACK (2018-19), written for Ensemble Multilatérale and inspired by the poetic and visual works of Aldo tambellini, will be broadcasted during this week’s Création Mondiale program in Radio France, with Anne Montaron, Françoise Cordey and Soizic Noël.

This piece was specifically written for the ensemble and recorded at the Studios at la Seine Musicale for its broadcast in Radio France. It is a cycle of 5 miniatures of 2′ that will be broadcasted every day this week at 13.55h. The titles of each miniature are the following:

to BLⒶCK from BLⒶCK (2′)
BLⒶCK energy burns with fire (2′)
the coming to be, resonating in the echo (2′)
from the invisible made visible (2′)
perforated on a BLⒶCK slate sky (2′)

You can listen to it live by clicking here.

On Saturday, June the 1st, you will also be able to listen to the complete cycle and to an interview by Anne Montaron at 23.30h. You can listen live by clicking here. There will also be iTunes Podcast and RSS Feed available.

Thanks sincerely to the team at Radio France, to the Ensemble Multilatérale, Léo Warinsky, Yann Robin and all the others that made this project happen.

Université D’Altitude 2016 — Interview

Posted on November 13, 2016November 13, 2016 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Courses, Events, MediaTagged Alain Billard, Antoine Maisonhaute, Aurélie Saraf, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, Electric toothbrush, Electronics, Ensemble Multilatérale, France, Harp, Hugo Warinsky, Interview, Léo Warinsky, Matteo Cesari, Media, Novation Launchpad S, Pablo Tognan, Raphaël Cendo, Saint-Martin-Vèsubie, Spring Drum, Surface Speakers, Université D'Altitude 2016, Vértigo (2016), Violin, Violoncello, Yann Robin, YouTubeLeave a comment

Hugo Warinsky interviewed yours truly at the end of Université D’Altitude International Workshop for Young Composers (Saint-Martin-Vèsubie, France, 2016), so here you can listen to me [trying to] explain the musical ideas behind my Vértigo (2016), which was wonderfully premiered back there by the amazing Ensemble Multilatérale.

Hope you enjoy or, at least, have fun!

New recording! — Vértigo (2016)

Posted on July 18, 2016 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Courses, Events, RecordingsTagged 2016, Academy, Alain Billard, Antoine Maisonhaute, Aurélie Saraf, Bass Clarinet, Bass Flute, France, Harp, July, Léo Warinsky, Live, Live recording, Matteo Cesari, Pablo Tognan, Raphaël Cendo, Saint-Martin-Vèsubie, Summer Course, Université D'Altitude 2016, Vértigo (2016), Violin, Violoncello, Yann RobinLeave a comment

I am pleased to share the recording of the premiere of my piece Vértigo (2016), for Bass Flute, Bass Clarinet, Harp, Violin and Violoncello. It comes from the second concert of the Université D’Altitude 2016 — with Yann Robin and Raphaël Cendo as teachers and the Ensemble Multilatérale as visiting ensemble— that took place on July the 9th at the Eglise Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, Saint-Martin-Vèsubie, France.

I must thank all the musicians of the ensemble for their magnificent work during the whole Academy an also for their brilliant performance.

Ensemble Multilatérale:

Bass Flute: Matteo Cesari
Bass Clarinet: Alain Billard
Harp: Aurélie Saraf
Violin: Antoine Maisonhaute
Violoncello: Pablo Tognan

Conductor: Léo Warinsky

Programme notes for the premiere (French):

“Dans cette pièce, j’ai essayé de créer des séries d’objets sonores hybrides en travaillant sur leurs caractéristiques spectro-morphologiques. L’énergie physique déployée par les interprètes joue un rôle structurant dans cette pièce, créant a la fois un matériau sonore et le discours musical lui-même. Cela contribue à créer une énergie particulière et une atmosphère spéciale, dans laquelle les relations entre le objets sonores tendent à provoquer une sensation de vertige ou de désorientation.”

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

New recording! — Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree] (Ensemble neoN)

Posted on May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Events, News, RecordingsTagged 2016, April, Bass Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Chamber Music, Don't condescend (Don't even disagree), Ensemble neoN, Flute, Heloísa Gomes do Amaral, Inga Byrkjeland, Karin Hellqvist, Kristine Tjørgersen, Live, Magnus Loddgard, MATA Festival, MATA Festival 2016, New York City, New York Classical Review, Piano, Quintet, Scandinavia House, The New York Times, Violin, Violoncello, Yumi MurakamiLeave a comment

I am so happy to share this new recording by the magnificent Ensemble neoN, from Norway. They performed this little quintet fiercely during the first concert of MATA Festival 2016, which took place on April the 12th at Scandinavia House, New York City.

I am very thankful for their great work! The recording is amazing. I hope you enjoy it!

Flute: Yumi Murakami
Bass Clarinet in Bb: Kristine Tjøgersen
Piano: Heloísa Gomes do Amaral
Violin: Karin Hellqvist
Violoncello: Inga Byrkjeland

Conductor: Magnus Loddgard

Programme notes (by Todd Tarantino, MATA’s Executive Director):

“Built from a limited number of scarcely modified musical cells that interact and react, Tamame’s work treats its musical materials as pixels, as in a computer-generated image. As pointillist art coalesces into a larger image when granted spatial distance, Tamame’s cels, each intense, energetic, violent even, together coalesce into a unified wall of sound that moves forward in a seeming directional narrative. “Seeming” is the important word. Although the instrumentalists unquestioningly move toward a goal, the discourse itself is flat. Tamame writes: “this is a representation of the idea of ‘white noise’ —even though the sonic nature of the materials bear little resemblance to white noise itself— which while extremely energetic is also the flattest and most homogeneous of them all”. Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree] is dedicated to the Meitar Ensemble, who premiered the work in Tel Aviv.”

The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/arts/m…aranoia.html?_r=0

New York Classical Review: newyorkclassicalreview.com/2016/04/mat…rreverence/

News — MATA Festival reviews

Posted on April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Events, Media, NewsTagged Alexander Kaiser, Anthony Tommasini, Bass Clarinet, Bass Clarinet in Bb, Don't condescend (Don't even disagree), Ensemble neoN, Flute, George Grella, Jan Martin Smørdal, MATA Festival, MATA Festival 2016, Matthew Welch, Media, Neil Luck, New York Classical Review, Newspaper, NYC, NYCR, Piano, Quintet, Review, Scandinavia House, Seán Clancy, The New York Times, TNYT, Violin, VioloncelloLeave a comment

There you go with two reviews of the concert by Ensemble neoN —last Tuesday, April the 12th, at Scandinavia House, NYC—, the opening night for MATA Festival 2016. They played music by Alexander Kaiser, Seán Clancy, Jan Martin Smørdal, Matthew Welch, Neil Luck and my Don’t Condescend [Don’t Even Disagree] (2014), for quintet.

The first one is by The New York Times’ critic Anthony Tommasini, the second is by New York Classical Review’s George Grella.

—TNYT review

“…The young Spanish composer Diego Jiménez Tamame packs a lot of dense, restless music into his five-minute “Don’t Condescend [Don’t Even Disagree].” It unfolds with violent shifts and gnashing chords as motifs and cells of pitches interact and recombine…“

—NYCR review

“…Don’t condescend sounds like a dense burst of white noise, disassembled, with the parts all heading back to coalesce at a central point. The well-executed writing is full of power and gnarled timbres…”

Media — The New Yorker

Posted on April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Events, Media, NewsTagged 2016, Alexander Kaiser, April, Bass Clarinet, Don't condescend (Don't even disagree), Ensemble neoN, Flute, Jan Martin Smørdal, MATA Festival, MATA Festival 2016, Matthew Welch, Media, Neil Luck, New York City, Piano, Scandinavia House, Seán Clancy, The New Yorker, Violin, VioloncelloLeave a comment

So! The New Yorker just announced the first concert of MATA Festival 2016, where Ensemble neoN will perform my quintet Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree] (2014), along music by Alexander Kaiser, Matthew Welch, Seán Clancy, Neil Luck and Jan Martin Smørdal.

Here’s the link. Check it out and get your tickets soon, if you haven’t already!

New recording!

Posted on November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Events, RecordingsTagged Academy for the New Music CSMA, Adrián Bartolomé Manzanos, Audience, Bass Clarinet, Carlos Sanchís Aguirre, Chamber Music, Composition Workshop, CSMA, Eduardo del Pueyo Concert Hall, Flute, Laura Espino Muñoz, Marco Castrillo Ibáñez, Marta Gómez Alonso, Nacho de Paz, November, Piano, Quintet, Spain, Violin, Violoncello, ZaragozaLeave a comment

There you go with a new brilliant recording of my piece “Don’t Condescend [Don’t even disagree]” (2014) by the musicians of the Academy for the New Music CSMA conducted by Nacho de Paz on a wonderful concert—yesterday, November the 18th 2014 at the Eduardo del Pueyo Concert Hall at the Superior Music Conservatory of Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain— with an enthusiastic audience that ACTUALLY participated in the after-concert talk –and asked challenging questions, like “Do you see the world in this wicked way indeed?”—.

Flute: Marta Gómez Alonso
Bass Clarinet in Bb: Adrián Bartolomé Manzanos
Piano: Carlos Sanchís Aguirre
Violin: Laura Espino Muñoz
Violoncello: Marco Castrillo Ibáñez

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

New video recording!

Posted on October 12, 2014October 12, 2014 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Courses, Events, News, RecordingsTagged Anna D'errico, Bass Clarinet, Bettina Berger, Catalonia, Christoph Mathias, Corinna Canzian, Don't condescend (Don't even disagree), Flix, Flute, July 2014, Lorenzo Restagno, María Misael Gauchat, Piano, Pierluigi Billone, Quintet, Richard Haynes, Silvia Pepe, SIRGA FESTIVAL, Tortosa, Tristan Murail, Violin, VioloncelloLeave a comment

Here you go with a video recording of my piece Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree] (2014).

It was performed in two concerts during the SIRGA Festival — Musiques de recerca y patrimoni, that took place on Flix, Tortosa, Ascó and Barcelona between July the 7th and 20th, 2014. This recording is from a concert on July the 18th at Flix’s church.

The Ensemble Interface —and Marco Fusi— performed music by Tristan Murail (Treize colours du soleil couchant), Pierluigi Billone, Silvia Pepe, Lorenzo Restagno, María Misael Gauchat, Joan Magrané Figueras and myself.

Ensemble Interface

Flute: Bettina Berger
Bass Clarinet in Bb: Richard Haynes
Piano: Anna D’errico
Violin: Corinna Canzian
Violoncello: Christoph Mathias

Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree]

Posted on July 22, 2014August 14, 2014 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Events, RecordingsTagged Anna D'errico, Bass Clarinet, Bettina Berger, Catalonia, Chamber Music, Christoph Mathias, Corina Canzian, Don't condescend (Don't even disagree), Ensemble Interface, Flute, Lorenzo Restagno, Misael Gauchat, Piano, Pierluigi Billone, Richard Haynes, Silvia Pepe, SIRGA FESTIVAL, Spain, Tortosa, Tristan Murail, Violin, VioloncelloLeave a comment

Here you go with a new recording of my pieces Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree] (2014).

It was performed in two concerts during the SIRGA Festival — Musiques de recerca y patrimoni, that took place on Flix, Tortosa, Ascó and Barcelona between July the 7th and 20th. This recording is from a concert on July the 17th at the Conservatory of Music of Tortosa.

The Ensemble Interface performed music by Tristan Murail (Treize colours du soleil couchant), Silvia Pepe, Lorenzo Restagno, María Misael Gauchat and myself.

Ensemble Interface

Flute: Bettina Berger
Bass Clarinet in Bb: Richard Haynes
Piano: Anna D’errico
Violin: Corinna Canzian
Violoncello: Christoph Mathias

Hope you enjoy it!

Don’t Condescend [Don’t even disagree]

Posted on June 19, 2014April 6, 2016 Posted in Concerts & Festivals, Events, RecordingsTagged Bass Clarinet, Chamber Music, Don't condescend (Don't even disagree), Flute, Israel, Israel Conservatory of Music, Meitar Ensemble, Piano, Quintet, Ran Baron Hall, Tedarim Project, Tel Aviv, Violin, VioloncelloLeave a comment

There you go with a new recording.

Premiere of “Don’t condescend [Don’t even disagree]” (2014), for five players, by the musicians of the Meitar Ensemble and the Tedarim Project on May the 31st, 2014, at the “Ran Baron” Hall of the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv.
Final concert for the Contemporary Encounters II Course.

Flute: Anat Nazarathy
Bass Clarinet in Bb: Gilad Harel
Piano: Omri Abram
Violin: Carmel Raz
Violoncello: Yoni Gotlibovich.

This piece is just going to be performed again by Ensemble Interface at the SIRGA Festival, in Tortosa and Flix (Catalonia, Spain), on July the 17th and 18th.

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