What do you enjoy?
The brief snapshot below has links to:
• short horror films
• YouTube & Soundcloud
• A few favorite chamber pieces
• Revolutions for orchestra
And below that, a bit of writing!
If you're looking for a specific sound, email me at mattia@mattiamauree.com. I have many works & genres not reflected here!
Film
Thorns (2020) - Won Best Score Short at GenreBlast 2020
Water Horse (2019) - Nominated for best short score HorrOrigins 2019
A/S/L (2018) - Best of Boston Underground Film Festival
Hunt (2017) - Premiered at IFFBoston
Classical Music
A few selections below. Listen to more on SoundCloud and YouTube
Lightlessness
Lightlessness (2015) for string quartet. The four movements are Entrada, Prestississimo, Elegy, and Fugue.
Smackity Bang Bang
Smackity Bang Bang, for two pianos and two percussion, won New England Conservatory's honors ensemble competition for this instrumentation and was performed in 2014. The four movements—Smackity, Bang Bang, Three-and-a, and Four Or Or—are performed attaca.
Revolutions
8-minute work for full orchestra with three chords revolving in the strings. Over this, strands of melody form and disperse. After a build to a brass-driven climax, the aggressive motif is again overtaken by the strings, though the chords return "wrong." As often happens, a trumpet has the last word.
Boundless
Flowing in beginning
Out of the noisome dark pine
forests enfold the ocean gently.
Boundless night, come tenderly
singing those newest stars into being,
and this molten music
will pierce the sky
with a roaring fierceness.
Reactions
Music:
"...bold, adventurous, powerful and elegant."
- John Heiss
"...hypnotic and eerie, and it leaves you on edge with a pit in your stomach."
- Insha Fitzpatrick, DIS/MEMBER
"What they create is always an incredible surprise."
- Sean Temple & Sarah Wisner
Writing
Post on the ArtSake blog: How Have Health Issues Impacted Your Art?
I love writing poetry for classical vocal and choral music. As a singer and composer, I know what's "singable" and idiomatic for the voice. And having searched for public domain text, collaborated with poets, and navigated licensing texts, I can say that my favorite by far is working with living poets. Please reach out if you're interested in collaborating with my text or your own. "Boundless" above is an example of a text I wrote specifically for an art song.
The following three poems were displayed in Boston's City Hall from 2019-2022 as part of the Mayor's Poetry Program.
Nine Years and Counting
No, I did not move here for school.
Technically, a trap was laid, and I flew
into poisoned honey.
Before forced to eat myself for sustenance,
I sustained an injury of the blood.
Vessels of stolen land, both sides of my family
on Mayflower or Fortune.
Wealth and Hound: too strained a history,
too thin a broken tain.
Home, as I understand it, requires sin.
Untitled Waterway
We, the people, build without materials,
without land, without foundation. Borders
shrink to the east, then balloon. We spill,
ballast against blight, claiming edges, and
clinging to loose boards during each flood.
We, the people, make a place to play. Hands
in gloves, hands unmasked, building a
place to be ourselves with dirt, trash, grass,
boxes big enough to crawl through, spinning
metal, and every day new ways to fly.
We are this place, and this place is us. We,
the people, built here, and we're staying.
Hair wrapped up, mothers watch a wall of
water framing their babies on the sand and
rocks. We, the people, are an open ocean.