L' osmose (2019)

for tape, diffused within a dome of 32 loudspeakers

Premiere performance:

September 19th, 2019 Oslo-Norway
The piece was commissioned by the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival as part of the ULYSSES JOURNEYS 2018-2019 and my nomination as Promising Young composer from the European-wide Ulysses Network / IRCAM 2018-2019.

Other performances:   

Stereo version
November 15th, 2019
DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York
meta.ξ concert series 2019-20
muted blast/2 - works for solo piano, piano with electronics, & tape

Stereo version
November 23rd, 2024
Two-Day Contemporary Music Festival
Athens Concervatoire, CMRC - KSYME

L’osmose is an acousmatic composition commissioned by the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival in 2019 and realized at Notam, Studio 3 in Oslo. Conceived for diffusion within a dome of 32 loudspeakers, the work employs synthesized and electroacoustic sounds to construct a virtual three-dimensional sonic environment. The piece unfolds as a living organism of sound, emerging from multiple spatial angles and immersing the listener in shifting perspectives. At its core, L’osmose explores a structural conception I describe as angular, phrasal displacement—where heterogeneous sonic fragments collide unpredictably, forming a collage that resists linear continuity. The composition thrives on displacements, juxtapositions, and the unorthodox osmosis of ideas, allowing form to remain fluid and constantly redefined. Through this process, the work seeks to transform the listening experience into an encounter with an unstable yet vividly animated sonic presence.