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:
fl-a eh cl-b fg trp trb g hp man vl 2vla vc cb
Healing : for ensemble / Petra Strahovnik
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
fl ob cl/cl-b fg h tpt trb 2perc pf acc 2vn vla vc db
Episodes : for 18 players / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Groot ensemble (12 of meer spelers)
Bezetting:
1121 1000 5perc hp pf 2vl vla vc cb
compositie
Xing : for 2 conductors and ensemble / Adam Łukawski
Auteur(s):
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