Past Projects
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a place outside of air
A simple but full miniature by B.K.Zervigón
Soundings in Fathoms is a multimedia exploration of some of the rapidly vanishing sights and sounds of Southeast Louisiana. It was made possible through a generous commission by the New York New Music Ensemble as part of its "Micro-Commissions" initiative- launched at the height of the initial COVID-19 outbreak. This work was produced in complete social isolation, using Ableton live to digitally stitch together an orchestral palette from the individual performances.
Soundings in Fathoms
A multimedia experience of Hurricane Ida
IDA
A multimedia digital setting of poet Nicole Cooley’s Recto, Verso
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Music and video by B.K.Zervigón with
performances from J.T. Hassell and Rachel Mink.
Photography by Luca Hoffmann and internet sourcing.
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A seam in the dirt divides past from present: rope I once set down
in the sand of the levee, or the girls asleep with me between them,
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Recto, Verso
when the family flies in
Ellen McCusker's cover of the song by Julia Jacklin
Rivers of Sand for ensemble by B.K.Zervigón
Commissioned by Stony Brook University
as part of their annual Premieres Concerts
Dedicated to Eduardo Leandro
Rivers of Sand
Performed by B.K.Zervigón
Two Improvisations
for retuned piano
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In this first fully realized collaboration between ensemble founders
Luca Hoffmann and Ben Zervigón, photos blend into photos
creating the effect of viewing a landscape.
The video itself is largely a contemplation of the
Bonnet Carré Spillway and Destrehan.
The music is a digital reworking of the second movement
of Zervigón’s piano suite “Floodgates”.
Music by B.K.Zervigón
Photography by Luca Hoffmann
Video made in collaboration
Performances by B.K.Zervigón and J.T. Hassell
the night we hit that bunny in Destrehan...
Silly Symphony
Music by Jeff Pagano
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Performances by J.T.Hassell
A collaboration between B.K.Zervigón and Nicole Cooley in honor of the 15th anniversary of Katrina.
This work for solo female vocalist and two pianists attempts to serve as a retrospective on the storm and a contemplation of where we were 15 years later.
The New Orleans premiere of Breach was supposed to occur at the Historic New Orleans Collection summer 2020, but has been delayed due to the Corona Virus.
Music by B.K.Zervigón
Lyrics by Nicole Cooley and B.K.Zervigón
Performances by Rachel Mink, J.T. Hassell and B.K.Zervigón
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Premiered at Griswold Hall at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD.
14 February 2020
Breach- 15 years gone
A doves wing clung about by heart last night…
In memory of his father
By Jeff Pagano
Performances by B.K.Zervigón
a dove's wing clung
about my heart last night...
Score Following video!
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This cycle for retuned piano solo contemplates the industrial Mississippi river as the composer new it in 2019, the first year the Bonnet Carré Spillway has reached 17ft- a number which only 2 years later now seems quaint.
Music by B.K.Zervigón
Performed by J.T. Hassell
Floodgates
for piano solo
This free, public performance on Lake Pontchartrain debuted composer
Yotam Haber’s “New Water Music.” It was performed from the water by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and hundreds of community musicians in a spectacular choreographed visual presentation, conceived and executed by New Orleans Airlift.