Ensemble

There's no lack of void

for Flute, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Piano, Percussion, Violin, Viola, Cello

Recording

Note

"There's no lack of void" continues to examine what does musical meaning signifies for me. I tried to create a piece in which there is an abundance of musical events and materials. This abundance strips them from their significance and turns them into a sort of musical waste. I wanted to create a musical context that will correspond to my overwhelming experience of being exposed to so much music, that it's hard to have meaningful experiences.

When Vladimir asks Estragon in Becket's "Waiting for Godot": "Where were we yesterday evening according to you?", Estragon answers "How would I know? In another compartment.There's no lack of void". Adorno in his article “Trying to Understand Endgame”, describes Beckett's writing as writing in which "the poetic process declares itself to be a process of wastage".

In this flux of events and musical wastage, I was hoping to find moments of authentic not-self-aware-or-self-referential honest expression.

Performances

Apr 13, 2016 National Sawdust (New York)

Ensemble Linea | MATA Festival

World premiere | Conductor: Jean-Philippe Wurtz
Apr 18, 2016 Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago (USA)

Ensemble Linea

Conductor: Jean-Philippe Wurtz
Sep 11, 2016 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (Netherlands)

Insomnio Ensemble | Gaudeamus Muziekweek

Sep 16, 2016 Florian-Waldeck-Saal, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (Germany)

International Ensemble Modern Academy

Sep 22, 2016 Kleiner Saal, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

International Ensemble Modern Academy

Sep 29, 2016 ZKM_Kubus, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germany)

International Ensemble Modern Academy

Jan 07, 2017 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

Israel Contemporary Players

Conductor: Ilan Volkov
Aug 23, 2017 Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin (Germany)

ensemble mosaik | mikromusik festival

Conductor: Christoph Breidler
Sep 17, 2018 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

Israel Contemporary Players

Conductor: Zsolt Nagy
Nov 18, 2018 Rakhmaninov Hall, Moscow (Russia)

Studio for New Music Moscow

Jul 10, 2019 Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo (Japan)

Tokyo Sinfonietta

Conductor: Yasuaki Itakura
Oct 22, 2020 Budapest Music Center, BMC Concert Hall (Hungary)

UMZE Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Gergely Vajda
Feb 16, 2021 Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (Austria)

PHACE Ensemble

Conductor: Nacho de Paz
Nov 20, 2023 Iris Cantor Theater, New York (USA)

NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble

Conductor: Jonathan Haas