Seven long compositions written to ensembles of seven identical instruments between 2009 and 2016. Each one of these works is dedicated to a musician who inspired Avital in his musical path, and explores or is a study of aesthetic and structural principals:

    •    Music for Seven N.1 for 7 tenor recorders, dedicated to Filipino composer Jose Meceda, concentrates on cyclic music both rhythmic and recitative.
    •    Music for Seven N.2 for 7 cellos, dedicated to Pakistani sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, concentrates on modal music and repetition.
    •    Music for Seven N.3 for 7 contrabass tubas dedicated to Icelandic singer Bjork, on parallel motions in timber, sound-pictures, sound-poetry and melody.
    •    Music for Seven N.4 for 7 copper plates and voices, dedicated to Yuval’s late uncle, Shlomo Avital, concentrates on vocal extenuation, rituality and sound-noise expressiveness.
    •    Music for Seven N.5 for 7 violins dedicated to German-Israeli composer Abel Ehrlich, on a-tonal post dodecaphonic polyphony, a-tonal rhetoric melody and gesture.
    •    Music for Seven N.6 seven accordions, dedicated to American composer Pauline Oliveros, on the concept of fullness and non-silence.
    •    Music for Seven N.7 seven accordions N.2, again dedicated to American composer Pauline Oliveros (after her death), concentrated on aleatoric and graphic notation as a description of collective listening and sound imagination.

1) Music for 7 N.1 - "Cycles" for seven tenor recorders

to Jose Monserrat Maceda (written between 2009-2011)

RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy, October 2011

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Performing:

The Running Seven Recorders Ensemble
Daniele Bragetti
Stefano Bragetti
Josè Manuel Fernandez Bravo
Mario Lacchini
Lorenzo Lio
Marco Rosa Salva
Seiko Tanaka

2) Music for 7 N.2 "Modus benedictus" for seven cellos

to Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn (written between 2010-2013)

(Not yet performed)

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3) Music for 7 N.3 - “Un porto griggio" for seven contrabass tubas

to Bjork (written between 2009-2014)

Segrate, Italy April 27th, 2014, closing event of the 4th edition of the ITALIAN LOW BRASS FESTIVAL

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Conductor

Antonio Macciomei

Performing

Dirk Hirthe (Germany)
Francesco Porta (Italy)
Eros Sabbatani (Italy)
Simon Sailer (Germany)
Giuseppe Scarati (Italy)
Tomohiro Sosogi (Japan)
Maximilian Wagner (Germany)

Music for 7 N.4 - “Al Mishkavi" for seven voices and seven copper plates

To my uncle, Shlomo Avital (written between 2009-2011)

(Not yet performed)

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5) Music for 7 N.5 - “Death of Abel" for seven violins

To Abel Ehrlich  (2011-2013)

(Not yet performed)

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6) Music for 7 N.6 - “Horror vacui" for seven accordions

to Pauline Oliveros (2011)

RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy, October 2011

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Performing

Sergio Scappini
Michele Bracciali
Nadio Marenco
Giancarlo Calabria
Augusto Comminesi
Paolo Vignani

7) Music for 7 N.7 - “ACCORDIONS VARIATIONS ON HARMONIC TREMOR" for seven accordions

to Pauline Oliveros (2016)

(Not yet performed)

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