ELISCHA KAMINER

composer | director | sound artist



small ensemble

_SONG/jew cactus saxophone for Bass Clarinet and Percussion

comissioned by Listenpony Ltd. for the NAS Duo
year: 2017


We have five minutes to sing about that one time when our hearts were eaten by the bulls and hung down the beautiful Joshua Trees in the desert of Landers, California. We had a dance, tried to make sense of moon juice and chest hair and pressed it all into a song.
SONG/ Jew Cactus Saxophone or reflections on the book of numbers is the second item of a series of short choreographies for two musicians, conceived during the first shower in Los Angeles, after staying in the desert. Joshua Tree's are slightly awkward looking creatures living in the desert in California, who can't quite decide whether they are palm trees, tree trees or humans. 

"The skeptical question Mah hi? - What is it? - gives its name to the manna, the bread from heaven, that feeds the people through the wilderness. "Man hu - What is it?" the people ask, for they did not know what it was" Moses answers: It is God's gift of bread." But it is the question, and not the answer, that names the unknowable substance. This manna, this "What-stuff", remains enigmatic - it may be a source of sensual variety and pleasure, but at the same time it remains ungratifying, imaginatevly indigestible."
- Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg in "Bewilderments - Reflections on the Book of Numbers"


_ciaccona super machaut
for mezzo soprano, tenor, baroque violin, baroque cello, double bass, piano / melodica, percussion
year: 2016
duration: 10’

--> deutschland radio kultur broadcast 
http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/musikfest-erzgebirge-recomposing-renaissance.1357.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=365805


_musik mit viola I
for string quintet and electronics
year: 2016
duration: 21’





_furu ike ya /(three haiku after basho)
for bass recorder and double bass
I - furu ike ya
II - kawazu tobikomu
III - mizu no oto
year: 2013
duration: 5’
_annäherung
music after paul celan’s “halme der nacht”
for clarinet in b-flat, violin and piano
year: 2012
duration: 10’





_pas de deux
for two clarinets in A
year: 2011
duration: 3’


large ensemble / orchestra

_rilke lieder / vorgefühl
for soprano and symphony orchestra
year: 2014
duration: 5’



_diaspora
for symphony orchestra
year: 2010 / 2014
duration: 9’



_two preludes for samson and delilah
for symphonic brass
year: 2013
duration: 5’

_prelude for orchestra
for symphony orchestra
year: 2012
duration: 4’



_ein tauchgang
for symphonic wind orchestra
year: 2012
duration: 4’

_zersucht
for chamber orchestra
year: 2011
duration: 8’


solo

_four lovesongs
for solo synthesizer
year: 2016
duration: 4’



_prefaces
for solo violin
year: 2014
duration: 15min

_aporie
for solo guitar
year: 2012
duration: 5’

_”...holy the abyss!”
for solo cello
year: 2011
duration: 7’


vocal music

_circle game

for soprano, clarinet in b-flat, cello, guitar and wurlitzer 
year: 2017
duration: 10’


_golden records (babel) for two female voices, flute, clarinet in b-flat, cello, double bass, percussionn and piano
year: 2017
duration: 18’

_sappho variations / moses+salome

for voice and any instrument
year: 2015/2016
duration: 15’


_the london songbook - chapters 1 - 5 / moses+salome

for voice and any instrument
year: 2015 -
duration: ca. 30’


_lamentations

for a cappella choir SSATB
year: 2014
duration 5’


_der eisenofen
for soprano and two percussionists
year:2013
duration: 7’

_(loreley?)
for mezzo soprano, harp and two violas
year 2011
duration: 6’


acousmatic music
_dphp suite 

for eight loudspeakers and live diffusion
year: 2015
duration: 16’


_BAB300 I
for eight loudspeakers 
year: 2015
duration: 7’

_the iron stove
for eight loudspeakers and live diffusion
year: 2014
duration: 7’




_ein lied in allen dingen I
for eight loudspeakers and live diffusion
year: 2012
duration: 7’

_to philomel 
for 2 - 8 loudspeakers and live diffusion
year: 2011
duration: 7’