Works
2022
Cantos a Nenette
flute, clarinet, violin, double bass or cello, classic guitar and female voice
[ca. 30']
La Cançó Perduda for Orfeu Ensemble de Cambra
violin, cello, piano [16']
Melodies for one
1, 2 or 3 pitched instruments
Melodies for two
for two string instruments
Melodia para flauta sola
flute
La Ruta 40 de sur a norte
performance for voice and recording [ca. 30']
2021
Short melodies for a poem by Iryna Tsilyk
for SED CONTRA ensemble.
flute, clarinet, violin, double bass, marimba and bariton [12']
First performance by Sed Contra Ensemble in Kyiv Music Days 2021.
I always carry inside in light with Sébastien Beliah
violin, double bass
Released on April 19, 2021 in There Is A Light In Me
Always I carry light and silence with Sébastien Beliah
violin, double bass
Released on April 19, 2021 in There Is A Light In Me
Telling is listening (ongoing)
open project which explores the listening through collective reading.
Started in Warsaw during Feb-April 2021. With the support and patronage of Strefa WolnoSłowa, the Open Institute and Jasna 10 - the Warsaw Community Center "Krytyka Polityczna".
2020
for readers and instruments/singing [ca. 40']
First readings during Klangraum Festival in July 2020, Düsserldorf.
Performed in a five-day session by Antoine Beuger (voice, flute), John Eyles (voice, sopran sax) René Holtkamp (voice, guitar), Normisa Pereira da Silva (voice), Burkhard Wehner (voice), André o. Möller (voice), Christoph Nicolaus (voice, stone harp) , Rasha Ragab (voice), Els van Riel (voice), Sabine Schall(voice), Joachim Eckl (voice), Germaine Sijstermans (clarinet), Tobias Liebezeit (voice), Dante Boon (voice), Max Bober (voice, violin).
7 duos for guitar and violin with René Holtkamp
guitar, violin [23']
First performance in Klangraum festival 2020 by René Holtkamp and Max Bober. Released in Distance/No Distance.
Modules for orchestra and narrator (1) and Modules for orchestra and narrator (2)
violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet, cymbals, actor [20']
First performed by Orchestra of the Zhytomyr Academic Music and Drama Theater on May 19th 2021 at "BANZAI! Or the art of walking" musical and poetic performance. FB event.
Dos Bosques with Emiliano Salvatore
guitar, violin [11']
Released in Memoria-Imaginacion May 14, 2021.
2019
We (do not) have time to do everything we want
modular score for any amount of performers [ca. 60']
First performed with Robert Prokopovich on 18 March 2019, 4 PoKOJE.
Realisation in 4 Pokoje with Robert Prokopovich and Max Bober.
Distancia (ejercicio de la)
Ongoing practice of listening and archive recording.
Fragverses
dedicated to Ryan Dohoney
voice, guitar [12']
all together alone
string orchestra [ca. 6']
First performed by Orchestra Rejouissance. Conductor Kateryna. Kyiv Music Days 2019.
Nocturno 1
piano [ca. 20']
Nocturno 2
piano [25']
First performed March 03 2019 by Alejandro Peña Gutiérrez in Krakowskie Przedmieśćie 58/60 - Warsaw.
Somos 2
flute, sopran, piano [12']
2018
Balada
violin, viola, cello, accordion [6']
First performed April 27, 2018 by Disorder Quartet - Alejandra Bautista Ortiz, cello. Martina Jembrisak, Accordion. Gilberto Bautista Ortiz, viola. Maks Bober, violin and composition. Concert Hall of Chopin University of Music.
Recorded on UMFC, Warsaw - February 25th 2018. Recorded and master by Jan Machalski.
Distance (between you and me)
piano [ca. 28']
Seguir viviendo sin tu amor
violin I, violin II, cello, double bass [9']
Recorded in Concert Hall of UMFC May 2018.
Sound engineering and postproduction - Jan Machalski
Conducted by Andrej Yakushau
Performers - Victor Pastor, violin; Laura Lopez, violin; Alfons Rochera Morales, violoncello; Christian Buffa, double bass. Video production by Francisco Bober.
Poema
for solo instruments (1-7)
1, 5, 6, 7 for guitar
2, 3 for accordion/ organ
4 for violin
First performed 1, 5, 6 & 7 for guitar December 20, 2018 by Max Bober in Bílý Koníček czyli Biały Konik.
Released 1 and 7 in bandcamp album poema
Intersectionality
performance for any instruments, a group of friends.
Open score exploring the possibilities of being together and different.
Somos 1
flute, sopran, piano [10']
First performed December 6 2019 by Alejandrina Vázquez (sopran), Francisco Rojas (flute), Alejandro Peña Gutiérrez (piano)
Released by Wandelweiser Ed.
Dinner for...
text score based on a polish menu [7']
Performers: Aleksandra Landsmann
Katarzyna Firlej
Desirée Martin Marquez
Zaneta Rydzewska
Maximiliano Bober
Wiktor Gniazdowksi
Andzrej Karalow
Krzysztof Knittel
Pzemyslaw Kunda
The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. Warsaw - May 20th, 2018.
Inne Miejsce
female voice, alt sax, violin, piano [7']
First performed June 29th 2018 by Martyna Kułakowska, piano; Aleksandra Klimczak, voice; Pablo Sanches-Escariche Gasch alt sax; Max Bober, violin.
Silencio
text score based on words by Pascal Quignard
Poemas
text score
Espacios
text score based on poetry by Robert Juarroz
Trios de otoño
violin, viola, cello [20']
First performed November 12th, 2018 by Alejandra Bautista Ortiz, cello; Gilberto Bautista Ortiz, viola; Max Bober, violin. Kawiarnia 4pokoje, Warsaw. Excerpt.
Un trio, un duo, un solo
for any pitched instrument [ca. 20']
Trio abierto
violin, viola, cello [6']
Duos Moleskine
series for duets or solo pitched instruments (1-5)
1 [3']
2 [3']
3 [3']
4 [2']
5 [4']
3 & 4 released by Wandelweiser Ed.
First performed 3 & 4 by Antoine Beuger in Klangraum Festival 2020.
First performed 2 & 5 December, 1 2019 by Sébastien Beliah and Max Bober at 4pokoje, Warsaw.
https://soundcloud.com/maks-bober/20171210-16-maks-bober-warszawska-jesien
Reading Chopin
ongoing exploration of musical chairs, Chopin's music and open scores. Warsaw.
2017
Autumn in Warsaw
violin, viola, cello [ca. 5']
First Performed by Gilberto Bautista Ortiz viola; Alejandra Bautista Ortiz cello; Max Bober violin. Recorded 2017.12.10 by Jan Machalski in ASP, Warsaw - Poland. Released in Indonesian netlabel watchpineapplepress.
The Silence of the Snow
Short piece created in colaboration with experimental quartet Kwartludium kwartludium.com/index.php/en/home/.