Composition - Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Bassoonists gathering around Hommage, for 32 bassoons

18/09/2011

I organised a bassoons gathering to read-through 3 movements of my piece Hommage, for 32 bassoons around the audience.
This is how it sounded like, with 14 bassoonists.

June 2011
London, St-Clement's Church

Caroline Glicksman, bassoonist
Cory Barger, bassoonist
David Robson, bassoonist
Hannah Smith, bassoonist
Hugh Rosenbaum, bassoonist
Iona Garvie, bassoonist
István György Berta, bassoonist
John McDougall, bassoonist
Laura Kirker, bassoonist
Neil Strachan, bassoonist
Philip Davis, bassoonist
Robin Hall, bassoonist
Simon Moore, bassoonist
Tom Hardy, bassoonist and fantastic gatherer

Tom Whitehouse, conductor

Andrew Crowe, film camera and photography
James Bull, audio recording

David Allen, St-Clement's Church Vicar

Sonia Paço-Rocchia, composer

Endless thank you for everybody who was involved

I Became Luminous

experimental multimedia performance

16/09/2011

I Became Luminous is a experimental play produced by The Olga & Clarence Memorial Theatre Company for which I have been commissioned to compose the music.

The music is really important and present in this play. I perform solo, live with bassoon, voice, glockenspiel, melodica and live electronics.

by Ieva Strazdina and Jeffrey Gordon Baker, The Olga & Clarence Memorial Theatre
text by Antonin Artaud, St Augustine, Guy Debord, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Arthur Rimbaud and Patti Smith
music and sound by Sonia Paço-Rocchia

performed by Jeffrey Gordon Baker, Ieva Strazdina and Sonia Paço-Rocchia
produced by Else Prünster
costume design by Anita Gatere
camera by Andrew Crowe
montage by Ana María Reyes

performed in June 2011, in London

Souvenirs

for bass flute and live electronics
April 2010

12/08/2010

This is a piece that will eventually be part of a Multimedia Instrumental Opera, for 18 instruments and live electronics, video, dance and live art.

In that Instrumental Opera, the bass flute will represent the memories.

This piece contains a lot of choices that the player has to take, some semi improvised and some controlled improvisation.

I composed this piece on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, during a composition retreat of Rarescale.

Susan Geaney kindly premièred it, in Skye, something like 30 hours after I finished the composition. You can't have more fresh.

As we can see, a Nitendo Wii Remote is strapped on the foot joint of the bass flute and it is the tilt, the angle of the flute that is provoking the Max/MSP patch. For the opera something more discreet will be used.

Score

Dé de dense .3

23/06/2010

Dé de dense .3 is a experimental multimedia performance, containing visual work, moving image, video, performance, poetry, sonic art and music.

Michel Smith and I received a commission from Pascale Malaterre to make the music/sonic art part of this street theatre show.

I was using 6 big boxes as control interface for my music. These boxes contain accelerometers and they positions were determining the type of sound that was going to be heard.

I did tape, live computer music and played bassoon live for this performance.

This show have been premièred in Paris, 25th and 26th of June 2010, at Square Émile Chautemps - near the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Production was by Pascale Malaterre and 2r2c.

Ice mealting in Dé de Dense