Mauro Quassu - voice, Renato Ianni - Voice, Matteo, Matteo Cigna - percussions, Salvemini Electronics and Voice, Yuval Avital Guitar and voice. studio Recording 2006, Biella. Shira is a hebrew word refering to the nobel part of using the voice: singing,poetry, prayer. as in the work Ima (found in works media page) the guitar is expanded to a sonic space or background from which the artists float.
Bdidut (Songs of hope and fear album)
Yuval Avital - prepared guitar, Live recording from Modena, Italy at Pavarotti theatre, March 2008. Played on prepared guitar, with fixed tuning on five of the strings, with one solo string. inspired by John cage, aphex twin, Erik Satie, and oriental solo repertoire.
Waves (Trialogo Festival 2009 creation)
Yuval Avital - Classic guitar & live electronics, artistic director, Sainkho Namtchylak - Voice & frame drum, Joe Legwabe -Percussions & voice, Amelia Cuni - Voice & rasonators, Bob Rutman Steel Cello & voice, Omar Bandinu Voice & flutes. Opening piece of Triaogo 2009 that was created in july 2009 in Palermo during one week of intense work , and then afterwards went on an Italian tour. The title indicate its inspiration - the seashore of Palermo, and regards the basic ingredient of music- the sound wave
Ensof (tape) (two parts)
2005. Voice and guitar samples, Field recordings, edited with Ableton Live Sampler. Technician Matteo Salvemini.
Part 1
Part 2
KOLOT Icon-sonic opera for 12 traditional singers 6 stumental soloists, electronics & video (Four Fragments)
singers /traditions: Rabbi Baruch Brener - Jewish hassidi tradition, Rabbi Moshe Dabah - Jewish karai tradition, Soshana Dabah - Jewish karai tradition Father Goossan - Christian Armenian tradition, Qes Vonda Eli Montesenout - Jewish Ethiopian tradition, Qes Baruch Mesret - Jewish Ethiopian tradition, Esti Kenan - Jewish Ladino tradition, Muhamed Abu-Ajaj - Muslim Bedouin tradition, Sofia Kaikov - Jewish Buchara tradition, Riham Hiadri - Muslim Palestinian tradition, Gila Bashari - Jewish Yemen tradition, Eli Bashari - Jewish Yemen tradition Yuval Avital - Classic guitar & Electronics, Nory Jacoby - Viola, Rali Margalit - Cello Yazek Kaikov - Chan & Karnai, Naama Tamir Piano, Giori Politi - Percussions; Recorded Italy Milan at Teatro dal Verme (World Premiere); KOLOT (Hebrew - "voices")
– KOLOT in an Icon/sound Opera for 12 singers, mixed ensemble, electronics and visuals is an observation of Israel in all its cultural complexity - old Jewish traditions, Christian and Muslim cultures, Ancient populations and contemporary reality which travel in cycles of holiness, memory, thirst, pain, hope and modern frenetic day life; clashing and merging, separating and joining. The voice is treated as a symbol, a carrier of the sacred word, an extension of individual and collective emotions, and a testimony of life and reality. KOLOT creates a unique musical language, formed as a part of the research of Avital's research of multi-cultural communication in arts in general and music in particular in the global era. The point of departure is a complementarity of two aims: the importance of preservation of identity of each unique culture and the creative potential of the individual representing it, and the need to find common denominators and symmetries between cultures on semantic and structural levels.It is a bridge between the local and the universal created by shared organizing principles and symbols, emotions and archetypes that create a universal system of artistic expression.
1st Fragment
Story prologue - instrumental section, created through a complementarity between harmonic fields created in Lisp (Open Music of IRCAM) and eastern modality.
2nd Fragment
Kdusha (Holiness) - combined praying traditions through complex system equilibrium study, of all 12 singers.
3rd Fragment
Esh (Fire) - Soloists Riham Hiadri - Arriving from a Palestinian lullaby, Lamento, and extended voice techniques, Eli Bashari - carrier of the Jewish Yemen mystic tradition - chanting the tale of the sacrifice of Izaak and Rabbi Moshe Dabah from the Karaai tradition (a very small and ancient monotheistic community) - chanting of the destruction of the temple and hence the distraction of dignity and purity
4th Fragment
- Shkia'a (sunset) - Hetrophony based on complex system equilibrium study.
