01 Friday Jan 2016
Posted in Competition, distinctions
I have just found out that, my work Quasi (ébauche) for string quartet was shortlisted for the prize of the Matan Givol International Composers Competition 2016.
Although I wish that I have received the prize, I am still glad that my work has received such an honorable mention among almost 100 works from all over the world.
My congratulations to the recipient of the prize, Francesco Ciurlo!
01 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in Recording
Performed by the string quartet of the Ensemble Klangforum on July 2nd, 2014, at Ligeti Saal, Mumuth, Graz.
Program Notes
The corruptive dimension of the reconstructive nature of memory serves as a formal model for the unraveling of the present work. Recent neuroscience research coraborates early twentieth century views on memory as a dynamic and evolving phenomenon:
remembering is not a simple retrieval of past events. Memory stores only fragments of the past that later serve for the mental reconstruction of past events, which are susceptible to various kinds of biases and distortions, as well as selective and elaborative processes.
In Quasi (ébauche) the original formative ideas are constantly recalled in a series of reconstructions of the past in constantly present contexts, having at times more fidelity—and at times growing less similar—to the original experience. These reconstructions, by means of pitch gene recombinations, leave only memory vestiges of the original by constantly shifting, diffusing, distorting, transforming, omitting or adding events according to a model of retention/corruption.
It is, in other words, like drawing “on the elements and gist of the past, and extract, recombine and reassemble them into imaginary events that never occurred in that exact form,…not to preserve the past but to adapt it so as to enrich and manipulate the present.’’ It is all about what is remembered and how it is remembered…
01 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted in commission, Concerts, Premiers
Tomorrow, July 2nd, the string quartet of the ensemble Klangforum Wien premiers my work Quasi (ébauche) within the frame of two concluding concerts of the research project Patterns of Intuition.
Patterns of Intuition II
String quartett of the ensemble Klangforum Wien: Annette Bik – violin, Sophie Schafleitner – violin, Dimitrios Polisoidis – viola, Andreas Lindenbaum – cello.
Works by Alexander Stankovski, Djuro Zivkovic, Eva Reiter, and Dimitri Papageorgiou.
Organized by the Gesellschaft der Freunde der KUG Wednesday,
02-07-2014, 19:45
MUMUTH, György-Ligeti-Saal, Lichtenfelsgasse 14, 8010 Graz
Info: Tel: +43 316/389-1330 ; abo(at)kug.ac.at
The concerts Pattern of Intuition I (17:45) and II (Mumuth subscription concert, 19:45) present works for solo piano and string quartet that have been composed during the three year long research project POINT. The research project has been conducted at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustic of the University of Music and Drama at Graz in cooperation with an international team of composers and scientists from various disciplines.
The research project POINT, which has been financed by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) opens a new approach to musical analysis, in that the creative act of composition is investigated with computer-based methods during the creation of new works.
In between the two concerts, project leader dr. Gerhard Nierhaus and his staff will give an introductory speech about the project.
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