Michelle Agnes Magalhaes
1. Trajectory (selected works)
Mobile for prepared piano, 2012
Revolutions for piano and loop machine, 2018
Listening score (click to enlarge)
Herbarium (Chamber music cycle for piano, double bass and percussion) , 2017-2018
dedicated and premiered by Talea Ensemble, NY, March 2018, commissioned by Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, Harvard University
I. Before you thought of spring (introduction)
for exciters and mini speakers inside piano, electronic piece based on historical pianos recordings
II. In my volcano grows the grass
for prepared piano
IV. Of all this sounds despatched abroad
for two musicians inside piano and percussion
Lorca Fragments (for flute, clarinet, viola, cello and harp), 2016
Commissioned by Radio France, Alla Breve
Premiered by Ensemble l'Itinéraire
After Spring, concerto for sixxen (six percussionists) and orchestra, 2017
Commissioned and Premiered by Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Brazil
Dir. Neil Thomson
2nd Movement
2. IRCAM, ISMM Artistic Research Residency and collaboration, 2018-2019
The Grand Can(y)on for 19 woodwind and brass instruments and audioweb coMo-elements devices
(ISMM, IRCAM), with the collaboration of Frédéric Bevilacqua
Rehearsal and concert (extraits)
In Progress
Musical Games (Dyslexia re-education based on Béatrice Sauvageot method and prosody)
audio mockup (Béatrice Sauvageot - voice + Beasty - beatboxer + Michelle Agnes - piano = dysorchestre)
Bow movement sonification with elements coMo audio-web devices for double-bass (in progress)
La chambre double (second version)
Premiere: Florentin Ginot concert
Festival Archipel, Genève, 4th April 2019
Based on fencing movements, bass player and double basses confronted in the fight of virtuosity.
The bow becomes a sword by means of the sonification with webdevices.
With the collaboration of Frédéric Bevilacqua.
Bow movement sonification with elements coMo audio-web devices for cello (in progress)
Migrations
Premiere (complete piece): Lola Malique solo concert
Basilique de Saint-Denis, 3th May 2019
First part (acoustic: musical writing integrating hand gestures, instrumental gestures and voice) - fragment
Piece inspired by Abdellatif Laâbi poetry.
Sound migrates
from wood to string
from string to breath
from breath to bow
from bow to voice
incantatory movement of the hands
cellist as storytelling
Second part (bow movement sonification) - in progress