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"...a multi-faced composer with a taste for true experimentation...a volcano that erupts once again"
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"...this is a global music concert, an universal language that everybody could understand and love..."
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"arriving the most surreal show of the year : OTOT by Avital"
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"Yuval Avital is a fascinating musician that succeeding to transmit his passion with a disarming transparency"
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"...An ambitious project which unites persons of undoubted scientific and artistic value"
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"Cosmic energy, pulses of stars, electromagnetic radiations becomes a choir and through the music renders the perception of the Deep Space….the energy becomes music, the scientific and cosmic material becomes sound."
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"...the performance-concert of Yuval and Wisam held in the 900° museum of Milan during their Italian tour, donated quite a rare experience to the audience…in a nested and vivid dialogue, they explore the entire range of possibilities offered by their instrument, including the intelligent and desecrate use of live electronics…a large and heterogeneous audience has been led in a journey of capable and well proportioned (musical) storytelling, for almost two hours of high quality contemporary music - never feeling annoyed or tired by too long or too complex ideas; in fact the audience answered the musician with long and well-deserved applauses…"
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"…a talent of the international contemporary musical scene…a music composition of excellence and creativity that transforms Kapoor's art into a space of listening and to an actual musical instrument…containing, expanding and producing vibrant and evocative sonorities…"
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"... An experience to tell your grandchildren one day. Or at least, today, to close friends. An event that had curioused the RAI (national Italian broadcast network) employees who watched amazed a crowd of students, pensioners, unemployed and free professionals who whispered, whistled, howled and rarely sing a few notes, according to the indications of the choir directors and Yuval Avital .."
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"Whispers and broken syllables, sounds and noises rise in concentric circles from a large ensemble of voices and accordions, able to recreate the breath of the sea, the language of the earth, the vortex of abyss. It is an archaic and charming music, Mise en abîme, the new creation that Yuval Avital has composed. 33-year old Israeli composer, visionary talent that blends ancient ethnic sounds to multimedia and contemporary research..."
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"…Breaking cultural and political barriers through the universal language of art…"
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"...KOLOT…was defined by its composer as an "icon-sonic opera", and this term had immediately stroke my curiosity when hearing about it for the first time... Kolot is not only an opera that can be defined as art, but also a complete cultural event.
Avital's virtuosity on the guitar never overshadows the voices, and the extraordinary orchestration and technical coordination gives the viewer the possibility to enter and live for an hour inside the opera itself. The moments of high complexity in which the voices created by the overlap of simultaneous songs in different languages, creates a very good musical and visual impact. The composer's wish of provoking a reflection about the beauty and richness that resides in diversity is fulfilled…"
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"...Entering the small rehearsal room in the Israeli Opera building a few weeks ago felt like a return to the primordial, formless void of the Book of Genesis.... sounds of Yemenite songs ....drumming on a large olive tin ...blowing a shofar. ... Ashkenazi prayer .... Negev Bedouin singing and using a mortar-and-pestle coffee grinder as a percussion instrument....Ladino Romance ... Armenian community... Palestinian singer ....members of the Karaite community adding their hymns, prayers and murmurings to this impossible landscape of sound, while .... typical Bukharan songs of lamentation waft in the air.
This musical whirlwind rose and twisted, changed color, texture and volume until it subsided into a dialogue accompanied by whistles from Ethiopian keys (religious leaders)…. A few days later in Jaffa, with the addition of other members of the ensemble - players of various instruments, a narrator, and video and electronic-music artists - it emerged that this is a musical composition, an opera with a score, and that the performers were working hard to prepare for its premiere later in the month at the Cavallerizza Theater in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and subsequent performances in Milan and Parma. This was the sound of "Kolot" ("Voices"), by composer-guitarist Yuval Avital, a native of Jerusalem, who is also the conductor....”
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«(...) Behind there is a crooked house, with windows on whose sills the excellent composer, Yuval Avital on the guitar and his sound technician, Matteo Salvemini on the computer are sitting. The double Israeli-Italian friendship of music and choreography persuades thanks to the reassuring beauty, which needs nothing but to stay quiet.»
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