| Title | Year | Instrumentation | Info | First performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exterior | 2024 | piano | június 2., 18:00, Budapest, FUGA Budapesti Építészeti Központ CentriFUGA produkció: Pianissimo https://www.facebook.com/events/745539224460673/ | |
| Naplórészlet | 2024 | 4 channel electronics | március 10., 18:00, Budapest, FUGA Budapesti Építészeti Központ Asztromuzsika: Különböző otthonok – Bolcsó Bálint szerzői estje https://fuga.org.hu/fevent/asztromuzsika-bolcso-balint-kulonbozo-otthonok/ https://info.bmc.hu/hirek/asztromuzsika-bolcso-balint-kulonbozo-otthonok-astromusic-different-homes-20240219 | |
| Different Homes | 2023 | clarinet / bass clarinet, cello, accordion, percussion, electronics | szeptember 9., 21:00, Novi Sad (SRB), Újvidéki Színház HoME – A Moment to Land https://www.facebook.com/events/318817627172912 | |
| Do Not Repeat | 2023 | clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, bassoon | június 11., 18:00, Budapest, FUGA CentriFUGA Produkció: “A repetitív minimalizmus tükrében” https://www.facebook.com/events/1687655088339084 | |
| Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | 2023 | voice, recorder, cembalo, cello, bass guitar, drum set, electronics | január 6., 19:30, Budapest, Magyar Zene Háza WH: Shakespeare marad https://zenehaza.hu/esemeny/wh-shakespeare-marad | |
| Finish Your Idea | 2022 | MIDI keyboard and chamber ensemble | június 19., 18:00, Budapest, FUGA BEFEJEZETLEN CONTRAPUNCTUS – CentriFUGA Produkció https://www.facebook.com/events/537106328127629/ | |
| Fabric | 2022 | string orchestra | január 13., 20:00, Budapest, Három Holló The inside of a tone (Átlátszó Hang Újzenei Fesztivál) https://atlatszohang.hu/event/the-inside-of-a-tone/ | |
| CIGANYAPACA / BENEDETTA-script / UJBARANY | 2021 | video with electronics | text, reading: Kinga Tóth | december 18., 21:10, Under Szubcult (online esemény) https://www.facebook.com/events/639266407261359/ |
| We Are (Not) a Dream | 2021 | organ and 8 channel electronics | május 26., 18:00, Budavári Evangélikus Templom Csend // Silence https://www.facebook.com/events/340320437703019/ | |
| Mindig | 2021 | flute and clarinet | május 24., 14:00, online esemény n.b. – zeneművek minden 15 percben – nekem FUGA fontos https://www.facebook.com/events/182694980395849/ | |
| Interior | 2021 | flute, viola, accordion and harp | január 17., 18:00, Bp, FUGA Budapesti Építészeti Központ CentriFUGA feat. Szűcs Dóra Ida https://www.facebook.com/events/304083381037697/ | |
| Fabric of Presence | 2020 | electronics | július 1., 19:00, Bp, Kalmár János kertje Koncert a Kertben | |
| Der Bleicherin Nachtlied | 2020 | vocal ensemble and electronics | március 8., 18:00, Bp, FUGA Budapesti Építészeti Központ Hangok Szabadon https://www.facebook.com/events/662439441229526/ | |
| senza f[…] | 2020 | string quartet | február 1., 18:00, Bp, Budapest Music Center Classicus Quartet: Das Wohltemperierte Streichquartett https://www.facebook.com/events/2566439110130425/?event_time_id=2566439116797091 | |
| Morzsái az eltörött világkalácsnak | 2019 | monodrama for actress, soprano and electronics | text: Anna Lesznai | szeptember 21., 16:00, Hatvan, Hatvany Lajos Múzeum https://www.facebook.com/events/1169025456632973/ |
| Frühlingssonate | 2019 | piano and electronics | június 7., 19:30, Hamburg, Alfred Schnittke Akademie International Budapest Connection https://www.facebook.com/events/2171537406265864/ | |
| what if | 2019 | chamber ensemble and electronics | május 19., 18:00, Bp, FUGA Budapesti Építészeti Központ CentriFUGA Produkció ǀ A Fervágner-bőgő https://www.facebook.com/events/288425795383208/ http://fuga.org.hu/fevent/centrifuga-produkcio-2/ | |
| Machaut-kommentárok | 2019 | 4 channel electronics | április 6., 17:00, Bp, BMC Könyvtár Machaut füle – La messe https://bmc.hu/programok/machaut-fuele-la-messe-bali-janos-sorozata-43 | |
| Föld és levegő | 2019 | gamelan ensemble and electronics | január 13., 18:30, Bp, FUGA Budapesti Építészeti Központ Gamelán áramban / Átlátszó Hang Újzenei Fesztivál https://www.facebook.com/events/1656485667833867/ http://old.fuga.org.hu/a-centrifuga-kortars-zenei-muhely-estje/ | |
| 45s(b) | 2018 | chamber ensemble | december 12., 19:00, Bp, Magyar Rádió, Márványterem Sáry Bánk 45 https://www.jegymester.hu/hun/Production/55801/Sary-Bank-45 | |
| Haiku | 2018 | voice + 5 instruments | text: Siniša Matasović | Words and Music 6, 9 January 2018 |
| Abstraction Layers | 2017 | 4 instruments, live electronics | Bolcsó-Kováts-Rubik feat. BIO, 20 September 2017, BMC Library | |
| Jelenlét (Presence) | 2017 | video with electronic soundtrack | video: Zsigmond Peternák | 18 June 2017, FUGA |
| Kockaember | 2017 | short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky | |
| 100mp*100dB | 2017 | electronics (+video) | 17 March 2017, Hermina Gallery | |
| Metszéspontpillanat | 2017 | saxophone, harp, electronics | 26 February 2017, Fuga | |
| Plant Box Man Repeat | 2016 | drum set, live electronics | Bolcsó-Kováts-Rubik feat. BIO, 20 September 2017, BMC Library | |
| The River | 2016 | video | A film by Andrea Bátorfi. | |
| Reality Check | 2016 | video + electronics | FModulations 3, 2 June 2016, Budapest, Müszi | |
| PLAY ME | 2016 | video score (for any instruments) | Hermina Gallery turns 1, 2016 | |
| Proof of Concept | 2016 | video installation | ArtPort 20, Pécs, Zsolnay Cultural Quarter, m21 Gallery, 2016 | |
| The Outcast | 2016 | radio play | Incidental music to the radio play by Norbert Köbli. Director: Péter Fazakas. | |
| Kreml, 1956 | 2015 | radio play | Incidental music to the radio play by Norbert Köbli. Director: Péter Fazakas. | |
| Graceful Degradation | 2015 | four instruments, electronics | 9 January 2016, Liszt Academy, Solti Hall, Transparent Sound Festival | |
| Kívül-belül (Inside-Outside) | 2015 | saxophone, live electronics | 18 October 2015, FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture | |
| Atmoszféramátrix | 2015 | 6 channel electronics | 18 September 2015, BMC Library | |
| Fáziskeresők | 2015 | cello, piano | Hermina Gallery opening, 17 May 2015, Budapest | |
| A boldog festő (The Happy Painter) | 2015 | documentary | director: Linda Dombrovszky https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-boldog-fest%C5%91/302534526623113 | |
| A hetedik (The Seventh) | 2015 | recorder, 6 channel live electronics | Recorder XXI – techné, 14 February 2015, Budapest Music Center, library | |
| Swiss Flow | 2014 | video | A film by Andrea Bátorfi. | |
| HUMAchiNe.org | 2014 | MIDI controlled pipe organ | 17 October 2014, Budapest, Palace of Arts | |
| Hetvenes | 2014 | mockumentary | director: Linda Dombrovszky https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hetvenes/494433037341373 | |
| Kölcsön-hatás (Inter-Play) | 2014 | clarinet, guitar, DIY instruments, electronics, dance | KÖLCSÖN-HATÁS / INTER-PLAY January 19th, 2014 at FUGA Budapest Centre of Architecture Composers: Bálint Bolcsó, Georgi Sztojanov Performers: Katalin Koltai – guitar Zsolt Bartek – clarinet Bálint Bolcsó – live electronics Tamara Vadas – dance András Meszerics – dance Mezítlábas Zenészek Produkció – Barefoot Musicians Project www.mezitlabaszeneszek.com www.barefootmusicians.com | |
| Enigma Remix | 2014 | sprechgesang, speaker, clarinet, cello, cimbalom, controller | 16 February 2014, FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture | |
| In Circles | 2013 | animated short film | director: Lina Walde, made by Lina Walde & Arzu Saglam http://wiki.animation.hslu.ch/2013_in_circles | |
| Harmadnapon (The Third Day) | 2013 | short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2815596/ | |
| Fényetűd (Etude of Light) | 2013 | clarinet, electronics | Controlled improvisation with visualization and sonification. | 8 December 2013, FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture |
| Passacaglia | 2013 | clarinet, electronics | 20 January 2013, FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture | |
| Try to Fly | 2012 | performance | I made music out of flies for Aurore Aulong’s installation-performance. | |
| 30 Days | 2012 | 4 soprano saxophones | Heiliggeistkirche Bern, 1 May 2012 | |
| Elsöprő (Passion for Change) | 2011 | photo-animation film | photos, director: Andrea Bátorfi It was premiered as a part of the exhibition in FUGA. | |
| Gitter | 2011 | guitar, soprano voice, clarinet, electronics | Budapest, Rajk College for Advanced Studies, 17 November 2011 | |
| Aria | 2011 | ensemble, bells, tape | This piece was commissioned by Use the City Festival in Kosice, Slovakia. It uses the special musical objects located on the main square of the city: a “singing” fountain and a set of bells, in addition to an ensemble with an unusual combination of instruments. The recording below is of the version adapted for the 2012 Bratislava performance. Péter Szűcs, clarinet | György Gyivicsán, trombone | Eszter Krulik, violin | Villő Oláh, cello | János Nevelő, vibraphone | Bálint Bolcsó, piano | Balázs Horváth, conductor | 27 May 2011, Use the City festival, Kosice, Slovakia |
| HUMAchiNe IV | 2011 | clarinet, bass clarinet, live electronics | 23 March 2011, Budapest, Háló Community Centre: Black Moon | |
| ]off scene[…[obscene] | 2010 | experimental music theatre | A collectively composed and performed experimental music theatre piece by and with: Jessica Huijnen Johannes Kretz Samu Gryllus Sieglinde Größinger Judit Varga Balint Bolcso Lin Wei-Ya Ye Hui Hans Wagner Thomas Wagensommerer Ernö Rubik Marko | Vienna, Kabelwerk 12.11.2010 — aNOther festival |
| holahatar.hu intro-music | 2010 | infographics animation | A campaign for moderate alcohol consumption. (Péter Fancsikai, Krétakör —> for Heineken Hungária Zrt.) http://holahatar.hu | |
| Café Brasil | 2010 | movement theatre (KoMa Company) | first performance: 7 June 2010, Pécs, Cooltour Café | |
| Oktogon | 2010 | 8 channel electronics | A subjective model of the Oktogon square in Budapest. Constantly moving sonic objects in 3D, according to rules specified for each object type. The 5-minute piece represents a 24-hour period, with semi-realistic rules evolving through time. Excerpts from the Max/MSP patch which creates the piece in real-time: For the audiovisual spatialisation and 8-channel mapping I used the cosm extensions. | Concert of the Studio for Electronic Music, Cologne University of Music 18 September 2015, BMC Library |
| Táguló (Unfolding) | 2010 | photo-animation film | photos, director: Andrea Bátorfi It was premiered as a part of the exhibition at Millenáris. | |
| Sketches for Improvisation in the Zoo | 2010 | off-tune melodicas, cello, theremin, keyboard, percussion, guitar, voice | A series of textual/graphical scores for a 30-minute performance. | Cologne Zoo, 1-2 May 2010 |
| Zoo Installation with Plush Animals | 2010 | sound installation | Interactive quadraphonic installation. 4 Wii controllers are hidden in 4 plush animals which are placed in the middle of the (sound) space. People are encouraged to play with them, thus generating data which is used by a nearby laptop running a Max/MSP patch to generate a complex (pseudo-natural) acoustic environment in real time. | Cologne Zoo, 1-2 May 2010 |
| Touch | 2010 | cello, live electronics | Balázs Kántor, Ensemble EAR, 26 February 2010 | |
| Csavargó (Tramp) | 2009 | short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky | 40. Hungarian Film Week |
| Ruhezone | 2009 | sound installation | 15 August 2009, Hanover, Herrenhäuser Gärten (Musik 21 Festival) | |
| Games in the Backyard | 2009 | theatre performance (KoMa company, Budapest) | Premiere: 2 September 2009, Trafó | |
| Quills | 2009 | theatre performance (Bárka Theatre, Budapest) | Premiere: 13 March 2009, Bárka Theatre | |
| Cascando Sketch | 2009 | flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion (+ speaker) | Bartók Festival 2009, Szombathely | |
| lautlos | 2009 | voice, live electronics | Weiten unnennbarer Sehnsüchte fallen lautlos, wie Blätter, schreite, wortlos. Hülle das Ferne mit Ruh. Stimme ins Stille krakeelte, verflogen. Zitternde Gipfel, Reise, sprachlos. Misslicher Hain nun erwacht. Knöcherne Äste wanken, zerteilt wird die Dichte des Nebels (…) Knittrige Neige, Gewebe zerfällt, entblösst dunkle Röte (…) Gräser vereinzelt in Erde gestochen entkeimen (…) Modriges Rinnsal mündet, von Schwermut zum Quellen erniedert (…) (text: Jessica Huijnen) | 12 June 2009, Karlsruhe, ZKM (next_generation) |
| Good Morning | 2009 | chamber orchestra | haydn.reflected, February 2009 (Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest) | |
| Apology of the Escapologist | 2009 | a project by Krétakör, Budapest | 8 March – 1 May 2009, at various spots of Budapest | |
| Triptychon | 2009 | voice (soprano), bass flute, organ | Vertical concert, Bratislava, 23 January 2009 | |
| Eloge de l’escapologiste | 2008 | a Krétakör action in Bobigny (France) | May 2008, MC93 Bobigny | |
| Savaria(da) Revisited | 2008 | alto and sopranino saxophone, tape | Kodály scholarship holders’ concert, 9 December 2008, Nádor Hall Budapest | |
| Kicsi Salome (Little Salome) | 2008 | theatre performance | director, choreographer: Nina Umniakov | 29 March 2008, Budapest, Millenáris Teátrum (Fringe) |
| Recycling (Zöldkör – Green Cycle) | 2008 | dance performance | 30 July 2008, Millenáris, Budapest | |
| Switching On a Different Light | 2008 | viola | 13 November 2008, WUK, Vienna (Wien Modern) | |
| Bloomy Girls (A Bloomy Girl) | 2008 | tape (2 channels) | Originally written to a video by Takagi Masakatsu for the Roma Soundtrack Competition. | 25 November 2008, Fonó |
| Az elsőszülött (The Firstborn) | 2007 | short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky | |
| Il salotto più bello del mondo | 2007 | short movie | director: Dorka Gergely | |
| Rotate rotate | 2007 | piano, string quartet | KomponistInnen-Marathon II, 6 October 2007, Konzerthaus Vienna | |
| Rondo poco meccanico | 2007 | ensemble | Centre Acanthes 2007, Metz, France (Orchestre National de Lorraine, dir.: Sylvio Gualda) | |
| Az ünnep csendje (Solemn Silence, HUMAchiNe III) | 2007 | piano, tape (1 channel) | Portrait Concert at Rátkai Klub, 18 May 2010 | |
| HUMAchiNe II | 2007 | tape (2 channels) | ||
| Határvidék (Borderland) | 2006 | short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky | |
| Emelet (Miscalculation) | 2006 | full-length movie | director: János Vecsernyés | |
| Sagrada Família | 2006 | voices (mezzosoprano, baritone), chamber ensemble | Text: János Térey | TéreyUltra, Budapest Autumn Festival, 9 October 2006 (Viktória Mester, Ákos Ambrus, Componensemble, dir.: Zsolt Serei) |
| Transit | 2006 | tape (2 channels) | ||
| HUMAchiNe | 2006 | clarinet, electronics | Music by Bálint Bolcsó and Robert Kellner, 26 May 2006, Vienna, Alte Schmiede | |
| 5 | 2005 | dance play | choreographer: Nina Umniakov | |
| Gyász (Mourn) | 2005 | documentary short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky | |
| Visszatérés (Return) | 2005 | experimental short movie | director: Linda Dombrovszky | |
| Ér (Vein/Brook) | 2005 | symphony orchestra | Diploma concert, 26 October 2005, Academy of Music Budapest | |
| Seven Times | 2005 | clarinet, cello, piano, electronics | Avantgarde Tirol, 31 August 2005, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria | |
| kirchen|bogen|fragen|feld | 2005 | radio play – tape (2 channels) | ||
| Ének, Hold, Gondolat / Lied, Mond, Gedanke | 2005 | clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon | Making New Waves 2005, Budapest, Trafó (Trio Lignum) | |
| Nincs visszaút! (There’s No Way Back!) | 2004 | 4 melody instruments | This is an “open form” piece. Each player has the same single page with a 7×7 matrix of pitches. The performance (or game) is controlled via strict rules. | |
| Vegetable Loops | 2004 | 5 cembali | ||
| L’Oiseau blessé d’une flèche | 2003 | vocal ensemble (8 voices) | Mortellement atteint d’une flèche empennée, Un Oiseau déplorait sa triste destinée, Et disait, en souffrant un surcroît de douleur: “Faut-il contribuer à son propre malheur! Cruels humains ! vous tirez de nos ailes De quoi faire voler ces machines mortelles. Mais ne vous moquez point, engeance sans pitié: Souvent il vous arrive un sort comme le nôtre. Des enfants de Japet toujours une moitié Fournira des armes à l’autre.” (Jean de La Fontaine) | 20 October 2003, Budapest Autumn Festival, Rudas Bath |
| Grids | 2003 | voice (soprano), violin, clarinet, piano | Portrait concert of Judit Varga and Bálint Bolcsó, Alte Schmiede, Vienna (Wien Modern 2003) | |
| bird eye | 2003 | voice (soprano), tape (2 channels), drums (optional) | Painful song about a dying bird, with a quotation from Bach and plenty of saxophones. Schlummert ein, – Mortellement atteint d’une flèche empennée, ihr matten Augen, – Un oiseau déplorait sa triste destinée, fallet sanft – Et disait, en souffrant un surcroît de douleur: und selig zu… (from the J. S. Bach cantata “Ich habe genug” and “L’Oiseau blessé d’une Flèche” by La Fontaine) | Portrait concert of Judit Varga and Bálint Bolcsó Alte Schmiede Vienna (Wien Modern 2003) |
| Fluid | 2003 | soprano saxophone, ensemble | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, 22 May 2003 | |
| Rodeo | 2002 | video | Video and sound editing exercise made from material found on the internet. | |
| Words… | 2002 | tape (2 channels) | ||
| Arches | 2002 | violin | Portrait concert of Judit Varga and Bálint Bolcsó, Alte Schmiede, Vienna (Wien Modern 2003) | |
| Farblos | 2001 | tape (2 channels) | The primary material for this piece were fragments of street music recorded in the streets of Vienna (among them a Hungarian gipsy group’s playing), before the Christmas of 2000. Another source was a fragment of a 200-year-old composition. All these served as raw material, a long process of extensive transformations took place, after which hardly any of the sources are recognizable in their original functions. The work was done with the use of various computer techniques. The title (“Colourless”) has to do with the mechanism of our remembering, which can only give us an obscure and flat picture of what we once did and felt and lived in, without all its original contextual links. | 16 April 2009, Sprengel Museum Hannover |
| Punch for 4 | 2001 | clarinet, violin, viola, cello | The piece is based on “Sacherpunsch”, a solo clarinet piece composed few months earlier. “Punch for 4” is an extended version with almost the same material for the clarinet, the string trio playing a kind of accompaniment to it. The source of the pitch set is the name Sacher, which can directly be transcribed into the pitches Es-A-C-B(H)-E-D(“Re”). It is this basic idea from which the pitches used throughout the whole piece were derived from, utilising more and more of them as proceeding through the verse-based structure of the composition. | 11 December 2002, composition students’ concert (ÖGZM/ORF), Vienna, RadioKulturhaus |
| Sacherpunsch | 2000 | clarinet | The source of the pitch set for this piece is the name Sacher, which can directly be transcribed into the pitches Es-A-C-B(H)-E-D(“Re”). It is this basic idea from which the pitches used throughout the whole piece were derived from, utilising more and more of them as proceeding through the verse-based structure of the composition. | 10 December 2007, Budapest, Nádor Hall (Csaba Klenyán) |
| Két dal (Two Songs) | 2000 | voice (soprano), piano | Kaleidoskop der Nationen, Wiener Bezirksfestwochen 2000, Altes Rathaus, Vienna, Austria | |
| R-dalok / Három dal (R-Songs / Three Songs) | 2000 | voice (soprano), flute, alto flute, electric guitar, bass guitar | 5 April 2000, Budapest, Old Academy of Music | |
| Talpalatnyi csend (A Foothold of Silence) | 2000 | tape (4/2 channels) | The first version for 4 channels was written in 1999 upon a commission. The raw material was collected in a forest, on the street and in my dormitory room. The composition itself was completed with heavy use of the ProTools mixing software and several of its plug-ins. I intended to fully exploit the possibilities given by the 3D environment, and I believe it is perceivable in the present stereo version as well. Most of the material is in constant movement, while some elements (like the whispering which establishes a certain meditative atmosphere) are rather static. | 16 April 2009, Sprengel Museum Hannover |
| Meteorb | 1999 | animation short movie | director: Béla Klingl | |
| Gubanc | 1998 | violin, piano | A miniature, written in a more or less dodecaphonic manner. | 1 April 2008, Budapest, Kolta Gallery |