gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
sopr picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 3trb tb timp 3perc 2hp str tape
Orbital : Interactive video score for ensemble / Yannis Kyriakides
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
ens tape
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
voc trb pf perc vc elec
Horó/Xopo : for amplified chamber ensemble / Peter Kerkelov
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
cl-b g-e perc keyb vc db
compositie
The Lost Border Dances : for double string quartet and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides
Auteur(s):
Kyriakides, Yannis
(Componist)
Toelichting:
The title refers to the dances performed by border guards, known as Akrites, during the height of the Byzantine Empire. The transcription of these dances and their modern equivalents found in the traditions of the Pontos, through Northern Greece to the Balkans, is used in the piece as basis for the musical material. There is no reference to the folk music tradition - rather the description of the movements themselves have been translated into musical gesture, and the music re-imagined.
There are 8 dances which are encoded in the music, each quartet alternating in taking the lead, like a dance battle, or a dance-off. The transitions become increasingly longer as the piece progresses, creating a shared sonic space between the re-imagined dances, an uncontested buffer zone.
Yannis Kyriakides