gerelateerde werken
Xing : for 2 conductors and ensemble / Adam Łukawski
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
fl/picc ob cl/cl-b fg 2h 2tpt trb tb 4perc hp acc 2vn vla vc db
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
1021 1000 perc hp vl 2vla 2vc
Divertimento : voor schoolorkest, 1964 / Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
rec-s rec-a 0000 0000 Orff-instr g fiddles
Borstbeeld : voor 13 blazers en contrabas, 1980 (rev. 1984) / Paul Termos
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
2232 2200 cb
compositie
Xing : for 2 conductors and ensemble / Adam Łukawski
Overige auteurs:
Lukawski, Adam
(Componist)
Toelichting:
In Chinese philosophy, before the beginning of matter, there is just nothingness - such emptiness that for a human being it is not possible to imagine it. From emptiness, borders are created (Xing) to make a form for a perceivable emptiness (Wu). Some of the other meanings of Xing are: "new beginning", "to wake up", "to conduct".
The form of the piece was inspired by the physical string theory in which collisions of gigantic string-shaped structures give birth to the new universes operating with different dimensions and physical rules. In the piece, conductors deciding tempi of separate structures causes their meetings and beginnings of new small soundscapes.
The concept of an idea of connecting different elements to create something new in a secular ritual of logic and rhetoric reminds me of the one from the last novel by Hermann Hesse - The Glass Bead Game. As this concept is very important to me, I decided to translate his poem with the same title into the rhythmical code and further incorporate it into the musical structure as a symbol in the last 90 seconds of music.
Adam Łukawski