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Testudo : for contrabass and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Contrabas
Bezetting:
db tape
Selves : for bass clarinet, string orchestra and live electronics / Yannis Kyriakides
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
cl-b-solo 6vn 3vna 2vc 2db tape
Zeimbekiko 1918 : for violin, electric guitar and soundtrack / Yannis Kyriakides
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
vln g-elec tape
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
fl org synth tape
compositie
The Lost Border Dances : for double string quartet and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides
Overige auteurs:
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