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16 Fractals : for 4 ensembles / Adam Lukawski

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: wind quintet (fl ob cl h bsn), brass quintet (2tpt h tbn tb), "glass" quintet (5perc), percussive "quintet" (4timp pf)

Adagio : for harp, flute, vibraphone and strings / Maxim Kolomiiets

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: hp fl vibr str

Las Ramblas : Version for oboe, bassoon, accordion and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: ob fg acc str

Dirt to Gold : for chamber orchestra / Brendan Faegre

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp trb trb-b timp perc hp 2vln vla vc db

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