Stigma

Stigma is ideologically related to my previous compositionBlankets of Dependence, in which I focused on a relationship -mutual coexistence on the basis of reciprocity. I build on this idea and try to go even further by thinking about the essence, the development, that is, the movement of individual points - the articulation of time in space. The points on this time line build upon each other, thereby affecting a progression whose absence would negate the elementary laws of physics. However, to remove a particular point from the time line would furthermore mean a loss of awareness, a loss of context, in other words, a loss of meaning.Neither the course of history nor our own actions can be reversed.For the essence of all existence is a forward movement, a journey from point to point, which we ourselves create by our own actions by reflection, by constantly looking back at the traces we leave behind us. It is that looking back that represents the natural and inevitable mover of all development - the motivation to move in a particular direction - and that is experience.

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The composition was commissioned by Waves Bratislava as a part of the project ‘Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability’ co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe programme 2021–2027. Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.

July 15, 2024, Prague – Kateřinská Garden

LIVE recording - World premiere performance

Sound: Samuel Hvozdík, Jiří Klement