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BORBOUDAKIS

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MINAS BORBOUDAKIS Score

photonic constructions I for Ensemble (2006)

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INSTRUMENTS

Flute (doubling Bass Flute)

Clarinet in Bb (doubling Contrabass or Bass* Clarinet)

Percussion (1 Player): Crotales (2 octaves), Vibraphone, 2 Gongs (a, d’), 5 Octotoms, small Tam-tam

Piano

Violin

Viola

Violoncello

* if a Contrabass Clarinet is not available

The score is written in C. The bass flute sounds an octave lower.

Commissioned by the Kasseler Musiktage 2006

Dedicated to Dr. Dieter Rexroth and Ensemble Modern

First performed on 29 October 2006 at Kasseler Musiktage by Ensemble Modern conducted by Manuel Nawri

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Minas Borboudakis

Minas Borboudakis (b. 1974) studied composition and piano in Munich and Hamburg. He attended masterclasses with Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Wolfgang Rihm, Rudolf Kehrer and Aleksey Nasedkin, and regularly appears as a pianist all over Europe, performing his own music and other repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. His style is characterized by microtonality, percussive timbres and glissando sounds, and explores the inspiration he derives from ideas of time and space as well as from a close study of classical philosophy, literature and mythology. His work also reflects a contemplation of scientific and cosmological questions. With its strong rhythmic momentum, his music incorporates archaic tonal systems and ancient Greek rhythmic patterns, as well as experimental electronic sounds. These, in turn, have an immediate impact on the treatment of the acoustic material, resulting in an interweaving of the two.

Minas Borboudakis (*1974) studierte in München und Hamburg Komposition und Klavier. Er besuchte Meisterklassen bei Luciano Berio, George Crumb, Wolfgang Rihm, Rudolf Kehrer und Aleksej Nasedkin und konzertiert europaweit als Pianist sowohl mit eigenen als auch mit anderen Werken des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Zentrale Momente seiner von Mikrotonalität, perkussiven Timbres und glissandierenden Klängen durchzogenen Kompositionen sind die Beschäftigung mit Zeit und Raum und die Auseinandersetzung mit antiker Philosophie, Literatur und Mythologie sowie mit naturwissenschaftlichkosmologischen Fragen. Die Einbeziehung antiker Tonsystem und altgriechischer rhythmischer Muster prägen seine einem starken rhythmischen Impuls unterworfene Musik ebenso wie das Experimentieren mit elektronischen Klängen, ihr unmittelbarer Einfluss auf die Gestaltung des akustischen Materials und die Verschmelzung der beiden klanglichen Ebenen.

Photo © Marianna Karali