- Program Notes
- Sun.Disk.Minotaurus for ensemble and electronics
The play was written in 2010 against the background of the most happy (the birth of a daughter; there is a dedication in the play) and dramatic events in my life. The play goes to emotional extremes of perception. A super-rigid and volatile flow, weighed down by noise complexes, intensively boring the ear. Hearing-breaking music.
Antique space flooded with nuclear sun. Crete, a scorched square, where the tormenting or suffering Minotaur is preparing for the final battle. Minotaur as the personification of the existing world. With his death, not only the labyrinth will end, but all that exists. And Theseus is a virus that breaks the codes of this world.
The play is built on the principle of a labyrinth. Music, having just begun, again and again returns to the “initial event”, circles around it, cannot tear itself away. Moving through the labyrinth, subject to certain conditions of its structure, the traveler cannot know whether he is moving along a new segment of the path, or is constantly returning to the “loop”.
Another literal reflection of the labyrinth is the listener’s expectation patterns. From a certain moment, the development of the play becomes more complicated, stratified. You can catch a state when it becomes difficult to predict further development: there are many breaks in the path, unexpected spontaneous actions of musicians. Perhaps this leads to a “zero point”, the cancellation of any expectations, the loss of perspective and all movement (“the mad traveler”, no longer looking for a way out of the maze). Waiting for the arrival of the Minotaur gradually gives birth to the Minotaur.
Vladimir Gorlinsky
- Recording Notes
- Nadar Ensemble:
Katrien Gaelens: flute
Dries Tack: clarinet
Vladimir Gorlinsky: bassoon
Emilie De Voght: horn
Thomas Moore: trombone
Frederik Croene: piano, sampler
Yves Goemaere: percussion
Hannes Nieuwlaet: percussion
Diamanda Dramm: violin
Pieter Matthynssens: cello
Pieter Van de Veire: double bass
Daan Janssens: conductor
Recorded by: Wannes Gonnissen, 2014, Sendesaal Bremen

- Record Label
- Fancymusic
- Performer Credits
- Nadar
