TESTIMONY
2024
for vocal ensemble, solo voice and steel-string guitar
Cantando Admont
Neue Galerie, Graz
14′
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Losing the Red Queen’s Race
2022
for orchestra
Basel Sinfonietta, Baldur Brönnimann
13′
A core group of the orchestra reads from the score. All others, the vast majority, are fully blindfolded. They imitate by ear only, throughout the entire piece. Each one of the five movements asks from them a different mode of mimicry. Once as quickly as possible, once in a chain, once from memory. It is a race that cannot be won. And by losing it, the piece finds its ever-changing form.
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Archival Serpent
2023
for ensemble and local archival objects
hand werk ensemble
Impuls Festival Graz
14′
The performers become a snake eating the archival works of the concert venue. The flute is the mouth, the violin the stomach, the clarinet the small intestine, the cello the large intestine. Each instrument has a different task to enable the progression of the historical material from one organ to the next in the serpent’s digestive tract.
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Mum Hum
2021
for clarinet, saxophone, 2 vocal performers
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2021
10′
Mum Hum is a musical game taking the soundscape of an unborn fetus as its base. Immersed in liquid, the unborn is surrounded by the sounds of blood, air and digestion, originating from the body that surrounds it. Mumbled speech arrives only after being filtered through the thick layers of the carrying womb. The musicians recreate that constellation by imitating each other – via the mumbling and error-prone transmission of a tin can-telephone.
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Silly Empath
2022
for string quartet
Swiss Chamber Music Festival 2022
9′
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Flugmagnet
2017
for ensemble
percussion, flute, clarinet, violin, cello
commissioned and premiered by Ensemble Recherche
10′
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Ping Pol
2015
Steel-string guitar with metal slide
premiered by Mauro Hertig
10′
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Slope Motion
2017
double bass solo
Commissioned by Open Music
premiered by Jon Heilbron
5′
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Liquid Contra
2018
for six speakers in three rooms
Commissioned by Bang&Olufsen and Michael Anastassiades
11′ (loop)
Stereo Version:
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Cello Solo 2
2012
Premiered by Benyamin Ryser
9’
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Stift & Papier I
2012
Trio for free combination of 3 string / piano / percussion instruments; all musicians also with felt pen
Commission from Trio Onyx (Eva Boesch, Marie Schmitt, Brian Archinal)
7’
MAURO HERTIG 