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Fixed Media
2022
- Program Notes
- EMVOES for kanun, lyre and stereo electronics, is a bicultural work which explores how the traditional greek musical culture can be approached within a contemporary framework. The greek word “emvoes” means tinnitus, and here, is used as a metaphor for what images, feelings, remembrances can be awake by just hearing the distinct sound of these instruments that associated with their origins and cultural’s identity. The work is also connected with tradition by borrowing rhythmical motives from greek heritage (dances and songs), as well as, utilising improvisatory passages that highlights a folklore attitude and is linked with the instrumentalists’ experience, skill, inspiration and imagination. On the other hand, the notation, procedures and methods that are employed in the piece are attached within a context of present-day composition; aleatoric features, electronics, clock based synchronisation, fractal forms, spatialisation. EMVOES intends to create a homogenous environment from acoustical gestures where instruments and electronics mingle in an identical and blurred manner. Acoustic events interact and contradict, are shifted in space, creating lines and shapes.
- Performer Credits
- Athanasia Stathia (kanun), Vassilios Mavromoustakidis (lyre)