Köln, 14.11.2018 Diego Montes, Musiker, Foto: Herby Sachs/version-foto

      1. “Numberdrama” (2021) (Jorge Sad Levi, Argentina)
for clarinet & electroacoustic support.

Numberdrama was composed in collaboration and dedicated to Diego Montes
The work is inspired by a numerical / rhythmic series that is progressively subject to variation and transformation
until being completely blurred. The starting point is a polyrhythm the end point is a quasi improvised piece named
Ladrones de almas ( Soul thiefs).
As the process progresses, the degree of expressiveness becomes more and more important.
Numberdrama alludes as a title to an assertion by the thinker Henri Léfèvre who holds precisely that music
it is like a coin in which one side is the number and the other is the drama.

Jorge Sad Levi
Jorge Sad. Buenos Aires, 1959. Composer/Improviser/Researcher. His music has been played in festivals and concerts in South and North America, Asia and Europe. A significant part of his work was produced working with improvisers and live electronics “Músicas de una etnia imaginaria” (2000), “Retransmisión” (2006) and “Amusia” (2017).

      2. “Estas líneas que te escribo” (“these lines that I write to you”) (2020) (Gerardo Dirié, Australia)
for bass clarinet & pre recorded sounds. Dedicated to Diego Montes

During early 2019 while visiting Spain, I made a few recordings of maestro Montes as he shared his dramatic ideas about his imagined characters in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Later, back in Australia, as disruptions due to COVID 19 spread, I composed this work reflecting on artistic playfulness against a sonic backdrop evoking the cyclical collapses of universes and their rebirth -alluded in the Sanskrit reading from the Bhagavad gita performed by Dr Charulatha Mani.

Gerardo Dirié
Gerardo Dirié was born in Cordoba, Argentina. He studied at the National University of Cordoba under maestros Atilio Argüello, César Franchisena and Oscar Bazán. As a Fulbright fellow, he completed master and doctoral degrees at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University. In the 1990s he taught in the Music in General Studies program at Indiana University, and since 2003 at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. He was appointed as Head of Composition in that institution in 2016. In 2012 he was a Finalist for the APRA-AMCOS award in Best Vocal/Choral Work for his suite Pomegranate Friends for mixed chamber choir and electronics. In 2017 he shared the ARIA Award Album in World Music with his work Tikata Tarpuinikichu recorded by winners Karin Schaupp and Katie Noonan. His electroacoustic, chamber, choir, orchestral and music for stage have been presented internationally. His music appears in Crystal Records, Melos, Indiana University, Eroica Classical Recordings, Doublemoon, Aqua, and MúsicaUNAM (Mexico).

Gerardo Dirié’s website

     3. 1, 2, 3 “für Thomas” (2021) (Diego Montes, Germany)
for Clarinet & Electronic

My friend Thomas Stiegler composed a work for solo clarinet which he dedicated to me, “1,2,3” für solo Klarinette. I liked this piece so much that I decided to compose some variations for clarinet & electronics based on the same work. The work is divided into three sections where one of the clarinets ranges between predetermined structures and improvised short moments.

Thomas Stiegler

1966 born in Meschede (D)
1987-94 studied medicine in Cologne, Freiburg and Frankfurt
1991-94 studied composition in Freiburg with Immanuel Nunes and Matthias Spahlinger
since 1994 assistent doctor, since 2001 senior physician (internal medicine)
1997 1. prize at the International Composition Contest Boswil (CH)

     4. Wohl – te – retas (2020) (Ramón Gorigoitia, Germany)
for Bass Clarinet, Voice & Electronics

The work is based on a collage composed of fragments of poems from Erich Fried („Nachhall“) and Jack Keroauc („Ghostroad“) and juxtaposed in opposition to the concept of communication, which is the main theme of this composition. The reoccurring ghosts, that seem to follow each step and are present in each particle of time on the internet are responsible for the immense changes of humankind and its communicative style, which increase a toxic social distance in our 21. century.

Ramón Gorigoitia

Born 1958 in Valparaíso, Chile, Ramón Gorigoitia studied Music Pedagogy and Composition in Chile at the Catholic University in Valparaíso with Darwin Vargas, Hernán Ramirez and Alejandro Guarello. In 1983 he moved to Germany to study Composition and Jazz, first at Cologne Conservatory with Bojidar Dimov and Axel Jungbluth and then later at Cologne University where he extended his education with further studies in Musicology and Phonetic. Ramón Gorigoitia earned scholarships, prices and commissions from the Gaudeamus Foundation, Stiftung Kunst & Kultur NRW, SK Stiftung Kultur, Kulturamt Köln, Deutsche Welle, WDR, DLF, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and others. In addition, he worked as a teacher at different universities and academies in Chile and Germany and participated in many collaboration with ensembles, choirs and soloists in Germany, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Ukraine and Chile. Ramón Gorigoitia performed his own music at festivals and concerts for Contemporary Music in Europe, North & South America and Asia and toured the continents with the E-Mex Ensemble, Auditivvokal Dresden and Ensemble Iberoamericano with support by the Goethe Institut. He lives as freelance composer, conductor, pianist and publicist in Cologne, Germany.

Ramón Gorigoitia’s website

     5. “Diego y los Espejos” (2009) (Gonzallo Biffarella, Argentina)
for bass clarinet & electro acoustic support.
This work is based on the series of works ”The mirrors”, which is made up of instruments and electroacoustic support. The electroacoustic part is made entirely with sounds previously recorded with the same instrument. My intention is that each instrumentist who addresses the work, makes an own version that dialogues with the recorded sounds. With the participation of the clarinetist Eduardo Spinelli in the realization of the electronic.

With the participation of Eduardo Spinelli, bass clarinet, in the realization of the electronic.

Gonzalo Biffarella

Gonzalo Biffarella is a musician, multimedia artist, university professor, cultural manager. He was born in 1961. He studied composition at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.
Throughout his career he received numerous distinctions, in his country and abroad. His works have been presented in 30 countries. He has made commissioned works for some of the main electroacoustic production centers, among them: the IMEB (International Institute of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges – France), the WDR 3 radio station in Cologne Germany, for the Acoustic Art Studio directed by Klaus Schoening, the CSC of the University of Padova -Italia and the LIPM of the Recoleta Center of Buenos Aires – Argentina, the Zeppelin Festival of Barcelona and the Reina Sofía Center of Madrid.