Alex Roth Music

My new album (Dis)possessed is out now: music I created for a sound installation at Warsaw's Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN in 2024. Available exclusively on Bandcamp:
https://alexrothmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dis-possessed

(Dis)possessed responds to objects in POLIN’s collection that were made out of (mis)appropriated Torah parchment during and after World War II. All the sounds in the piece were created using these objects, and the music I composed with them is almost entirely based on cantorial melodies linked to the specific sections of the Torah that are still legible on the parchments.

Thanks to the following people, whose contributions helped bring this project into being: Ewa Chomicka, Aleksandra Janus, Alicja Kaczmarek-Poławska, Michał Kupicz, Renata Piątkowska, Aldona Modrzewska, Małgorzata Bogdańska-Krzyżanek, Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Cantor Rachel Weston, Matan Shefi, Rami Avraham Efal, Magda Rubenfeld, Jacqueline Nicholls, Adam Schorin, and Wiktor Bury and Michał Warmusz at the Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor Cricoteka.

📷 Photos from the exhibition by D. Matłocha / POLIN