MARIA ATALLAH | TAMASHI | LLCC PROJECT [SCORE VIDEO]

----------------------------------------------- About the piece ----------------------------------------------- Tamashi For piano, cello, clarinet, and flute Tamashī (Japanese for “soul” or “spirit”) evokes the characteristics and layers of the soul by juxtaposing pitched and non-pitched materials within instrumentation that continuously grows. The first movement (nicknamed “burst”) for solo alto flute contains the highest percentage of non-pitched elements and symbolizes the soul’s pure, simplistic nature. The second movement (nicknamed “echo”) for piano and cello explores the concept of written electronic delay and contains an equal ratio of pitch and non-pitched elements. The final movement (nicknamed “oscillation”) features all instruments (piano, cello, flute, and clarinet) and has the highest percentage of pitched materials; sound objects are also heard collectively and interact through a back-and-forth texture, also symbolizing the idea of spiritual balance. Tamashī I. (first movement); Alto flute: Martin Blais II. (second movement); Cello: India Gailey Piano: Akkra Yeunyonghattaporn III. (third movement): Flute: Caitlin Berger Clarinet: Nick Walshe Cello: Emma Schmiedecke Piano: Luke Bell ----------------------------------------------- About the Composer ----------------------------------------------- Maria Atallah is an emerging Lebanese-Canadian composer of contemporary classical music based in Ottawa, Canada. Recognized for her “unique compositional language” (Gabrielle Gaudreault) she is a two-time first prize recipient of the SOCAN foundation Godfrey Ridout award for young composers (2017, 2018) and an English category winner of the 2018 Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes for emerging female opera creators. In 2014, her Three Pieces for Unaccompanied Cello was short-listed for the International Sorodha Composition Competition in Antwerp, Belgium. Maria’s music explores melodic, heterophonic textures articulated by electroacoustic-inspired techniques. She holds a B.Mus from the University of Ottawa and an M.Mus (thesis) from McGill University. Maria passed away, at the early age of 29, on Monday, February 6th, 2023. R.I.P Maria. ----------------------------------------------- Find the composer on ----------------------------------------------- Website: www.mariaatallahmusic.com ----------------------------------------------- About LLCC project ----------------------------------------------- Lebanese Living Composers' Channel (LLCC) is a project by the Lebanese composer Wajdi Abou Diab, that aims to support the Lebanese living music composers, by creating a YouTube channel (along with a Facebook page and an Instagram account) dedicated to presenting their works as score videos. Support the Lebanese composers by subscribing to our youtube channel and following us on Facebook and Instagram, and don't forget to comment, like, and share! ----------------------------------------------- Credits ----------------------------------------------- Archiving and video editing: Wajdi Abou Diab ( wajdiaboudiab.com ) Artwork: Amy Chiniara (   / amychiniara   ) Thanks to our donors for making this project possible Zeina Saleh Kayali Wajdi Abou Diab ----------------------------------------------- Useful Link ----------------------------------------------- LLCC submission form: https://forms.gle/VYD2bLixnEgEduBz5 LLCC youtube channel:    / @llcc   LLCC Facebook page:   / lebanese-living-composers-channel-llcc-100...   LLCC Instagram page:   / lebaneselivingcomposers   About LLCC: https://wajdiaboudiab.com/the-lebanes... CPML website: https://www.patrimoinemusicallibanais... ----------------------------------------------- Copyrights ----------------------------------------------- This video is a part of the "Lebanese Living Composers Channel" project. All materials used in this score-video and in the description are used with permission.