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General: Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969, emigrated to Britain in 1975, and has been living in the Netherlands since 1992. He currently lives in Amsterdam with ...
gerelateerde werken
The Arrest : for ensemble, soundtrack and videotext / Yannis Kyriakides
Genre:
Electronische Muziek
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met elektronica
Bezetting:
vln pf g-elec mar cl/cl-b db soundtrack
Stranger I : for ensemble / Alexey Sioumak
Genre:
Electronische Muziek
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met elektronica
Bezetting:
fl cl sopr pf vn vla vc tape
Genre:
Electronische Muziek
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met elektronica
Bezetting:
pf cl vibr elec
Deux petites histoires : uit het Album voor cello en piano / Matthias Kadar
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Cello en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vc pf
compositie
The Lost Border Dances : for double string quartet and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides
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