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Published scores are available through Schott's PSNY. For unpublished scores, email mary@marykouyoumdjian.com
Published scores are available through Schott's PSNY. For unpublished scores, email mary@marykouyoumdjian.com
DARLING (2020)
Commissioned by Helen Simoneau Danse, created in close collaboration with violinists Andie Tanning and Austin Wulliman, voice Mary Kouyoumdjian
sampled voice and violins in fixed media audio playback/ 60'
Commissioned by Helen Simoneau Danse, created in close collaboration with violinists Andie Tanning and Austin Wulliman, voice Mary Kouyoumdjian
sampled voice and violins in fixed media audio playback/ 60'
DARLING is a piece for dance that explores vulnerability and intimacy through the presence and absence of touch. The work also intends the audience to question their assumptions about the relationships between strength, power, gender and size. The score was created in close collaboration with violinist Austin Wulliman through sampling recordings of guided improvisation sessions.
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Red on Red (2017)
Written for Jordan Morley, choreographed by Jordan Morley
fixed media, dance / 10'
Written for Jordan Morley, choreographed by Jordan Morley
fixed media, dance / 10'
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2 Suitcases (2010, revised 2017)
Commissioned by The Los Angeles New Music Ensemble
Rearranged for Eighth Blackbird
Available as fixed media with only the electronic track below
Version 1: violin, cello, bass clarinet, piano, audio playback / 9'
Version 2: Flute, clarinet, piano, vibraphone, violin, cello, audio playback / 9'
Commissioned by The Los Angeles New Music Ensemble
Rearranged for Eighth Blackbird
Available as fixed media with only the electronic track below
Version 1: violin, cello, bass clarinet, piano, audio playback / 9'
Version 2: Flute, clarinet, piano, vibraphone, violin, cello, audio playback / 9'
Dedicated to my parents, with words spoken in Arabic, Armenian, and English 2 Suitcases is in dedication to my parents' immigration story, as they settled in San Francisco from the Lebanese Civil War with only their 1 year old son and two suitcases.