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Viola+

Being active in the New Music Scene Zalech premiered over 100 new pieces containing works for solo viola, chamber music and ensemble. He worked with Klangforum Wien premiering music by G.F. Haas, B. Furrer, G. Benjamin, O. Neuwirth. As a soloist he played the monumental Les Espaces Acoustiques by G. Grisey on festivals Wien Modern and Warsaw Autumn. He also premiered a Double Concerto for Flute, Viola and Orchestra written by A. Baticci with the Divertimento Ensemble in Milano (2018). 

Rafal Zalech plays an ‘augmented’ viola using his own invention – DigitAize fingerboard. Over the last years many composers committed their music to this system and wrote pieces using Rafal’s instrument. Read more..

Rafal Zalech is a member of The Black Page Orchestra, Composer-Performer Duo Nimikry and Duo van Vliet

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NIMIKRY

Nimikry’s work combines technological innovation and artistic research on the highest level. The use of cutting-edge technology combined with the virtuosity of their classical instruments allows Nimikry a great flexibility and variety of output. Their augmented instruments are the basis and the inspirational playground for ongoing investigations on new sonic possibilities. The musical aesthetic of the duo exceeds the boundaries of contemporary art and explores new fields of experimental electronic, noise-pop, remix of classical music and improvisation. What combines all these genres is the distinctive element of their innovative augmented instruments. A classical background and the confrontation with the language of the Avantgarde shapes Nimikry’s approach to any project. 

www.nimikry.com 

BLACK PAGE ORCHESTRA

founded 2014 in Vienna, is an ensemble for  radical and uncompromising music of current times. The name derives from Frank Zappa’s composition the black page, a piece which score is due to the high density of notes and musical events nearly a black paper. Beside this clear aesthetical approach the ensemble focuses on compositions using electronics, video and different technologies in an artistic context as well as pieces with performative character.

www.blackpageorchestra.org 

Composition

Rafal Zalech studied electro-acoustic composition at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as in K. Lipinski Academy of Music in Wrocław, Poland. His musical language is strongly determined by the use of modern tools in the electronic music field. In his works, Zalech is on a constant search for combining the nature of acoustic instruments together with the presence of his self-made instruments-sensors. Zalech is author of several symphonic pieces (Koniugacje, The Greatest Hits), Ensemble music (Concerto for Tape and Orchestra) and many chamber/solo works. Together with Alessandro Baticci, Zalech composed collectively pieces for Klangforum Wien (Bird of Paradise) as well as for his Duo Nimikry (Design of a Memory, Narcomancy). 

List of Works

Score Samples: 

STADIUM IV for Viola & Live Electronics

Concerto for Tape and Orchestra

Design of a Memory – Fast Forward

Preludium per Archi

Invention

As a Co-Founder and CEO of DigitAize Smart Instruments, Zalech develops sensor-based solutions for the acoustic instruments. Together with Alessandro Baticci he owns an international Patent for the DigitAize Digital Fingerboard. Among others Zalech is intensively researching on different pitch to midi approaches and motion based interactions between the performer / computer. 

Zalech is author of the rz.library for max/msp with many practical composition tools tools as well as Ableton live externals for managing live-electronics concerts on the stage. Read more.. (soon)