componist

Mazis, Spiros

Dr. Spiros Mazis was born in Corfu, Greece. His creative and critical thinking has always been the starting point of his compositional activity. Most of his works are based upon ...

gerelateerde werken

The Dickinson Songs: Whispers of Love, Nature and Death (Volume II) : 10 songs for soprano and piano / soprano, piano and electronics / Spiros Mazis; poems by Emily Dickinson

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Zangstem en piano
Bezetting: sopr pf / sopr pf tape

Birds can't count and Monkees don't smoke : for string quartet / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Strijkkwartet (2 violen, altviool, cello)
Bezetting: 2vl vla vc

Hymn : Version for improvising string quartet / Ned McGowan

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Strijkkwartet (2 violen, altviool, cello)
Bezetting: 2vl vla vc

Il pensiero : voor strijkkwartet, 1961 / Hendrik Andriessen

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Strijkkwartet (2 violen, altviool, cello)
Bezetting: 2vl vla vc

compositie

Gazing into the Infinite : for string quartet / Spiros Mazis

Toelichting:
Gazing into the Infinite was written during my PhD studies at the University of York, UK, in 2007-08. I am exploring the harmonic series and the relations of the intervals among their partials in a way that I name multi-harmonic (multi-spectral) modes.
The multi-harmonic (multi-spectral) modes take shape if we combine different harmonic series. If we bind two, three, or more harmonic series together, then new shaping of sounds takes place vertically and horizontally. This shaping of sounds can be used harmonically and melodically.
The work was selected, after a Call for Scores competition, by the
members of the Kreutzer Quartet, and part of it was played on May 9th, 2008, at a Composers Workshop at the University of York. The whole piece was played in this recording by the NeoQuartet.
Spiros Mazis