• Audio EXCERPT •
(Mastered CD version)
* Will be issued on the music label Sub Rosa, double-CD, Sept 2017.
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"κλείστε τα μάτια / Kl ei s te ta m a ti a - Odysseus, Kissed Skin - PART II "
(towards and about 130 people)
About "our" Greece and Arab world latter-day,
(since and till today).
O X I
Long cycle in three parts.
Based on recorded rehearsal's material, with various instrumental ensembles and my written musical pieces, from this last 5 years (on private recorded archives-mozaik never released).
The piece is a musical sculpture made out of cells fragment and blocks.
For score and realtime audio processing.
With special and wonderful guests.
{Studio version}
composed between august and december 2015
Christophe Guiraud : Composition(s), Cello's, Voices, Chorus, Citharra, Flash, Guitars, etc..
Special moved thanks to,
• Abdul Rahman and Paula Kembora, narrator Voci about Iliad, classical-Arabic and ancient-Greek
• Benjamin Glorieux 's smoldering and sensitive Cello playing
• Matthias Boss 's harsh and emotional Violin playing
• Manfred Langhoff's reading-voce about Homère's Odysseus (recorded session by Caspar Langhoff)
• Christian Vasseur's prepared acoustic guitar recorded session {pretty much everywhere into the piece, in little various fragments, the Gong-and-rubbed acoustic guitar}.
Quotations/Citations :
Carlo Gesualdo’s extact / Tenebrae factae sunt (Vème mvnt)
Luigi Nono ’s short strings (viola/cello) fragment-sentence
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* for Sub Rosa ("Collection 2011-2016" - Sept 2017)