Berichte/Features

Woche 01 / 1.1.-7.1.07 - Woche 04 / 22.1.-28.1.07

Komponistenportraits

Stefano Giannotti
Audio Portrait / 2006 / 57:01

01. Presentation / 0:48
02. Giovanni e gli alfabeti / 1994/96 / 9:12
03. Presentation / 0:48
04. La citta' dei carillons / 1992/1998 / excerpt, 6:13
05. Presentation / 0:54
06. Megaphono / 1998 / excerpt, 9:05
07. Presentation / 0:12
08. From il tempo cambia (I) / 1997/2001: Sung - la lite / 0:53
09. Pi - La solidarieta / 1:07
10. T'ung Jëng - L'associazione tra uomini / 1:30
11. Ta Yu - Il possesso grande / 1:21
12. Li - L'aderente (Il Fuoco) / 2:11
13. Presentation / 0:29
14. Camminavo / 1994/2001 / 6:37
15. Presentation / 0:48
16. Stanze / 1996/2005 / 13:59
17. Presentation / 0:46

In constructing this audio-portait I have decided to choose pieces taken from a wide range of directions I'm actually following, just to give a global idea of my work. I find interesting to put together in one only context radio-art, pop music, chamber music, theatre and electronic research. More or less the themes I am treating are always the same: I'm speaking of people, of languages, of landscape, memory and human being, through some metaphoras which represent our archetypes. In this sense the mean is not important, I put more accent on the aim.

Stefano Giannotti (1963), composer, director, guitarist and performer. His repertoire ranges from performance, radio-art, video and dance theatre to chamber music, orchestral scores and songs. Between 1996 and 2005, he has developed several projects for SFB, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, WDR, SWR, Radio_Copernicus. He teaches Music Theory and Culture at the Artistic High School in Lucca (Toscana). www.stefanogiannotti.com


Lidia Zielinska
Compilation of 4 works from 1986-2004 / 55:16

Es handelt sich um ein Audio-Portrait der Künstlerin selbst.
Lidia Zielinska wurde beim DEGEM Webradio-Wettbewerb für das Stück MUSICA OR HOW SYMPHONIES ARE BORN prämiert.

1. RAPSODIA for violin and tape / Anna Zielinska - violin / 2004 / 10:22
2. JUST TOO MANY WORDS for tape (Text-Sound Composition) / 2001 / 9:39
3. TANCE POLSKIE for tape after Rev. Baka / 1986 / 8:55
4. CASCANDO for actor and double mixed choir after Beckett / 1983/91 / 26:14
Krzysztof Luft, Polski Chór Kameralny Schola Cantorum Gedanensis, dyr. Jan Lukaszewski

RAPSODIA was commissioned by the Edmonton Composers' Society (Canada) and composed in 2004. My daughter Anna Zielinska was the first performer within her ElectromAnia Project during the Gelderse Muziek Zomer Festival (Netherland) in August 2004.

JUST TOO MANY WORDS was born from the excess of words in the TV news and comments. How and to such extent it is worth anaesthetising yourself to keep away from the streams of words and at the same time not to miss anything important from the current moment? None of the events during the day I was recording the materials for my piece, had any importance for this world's fate, there were an ordinary journalist food, a matter to fill in an air time, thus, an empty talking only. I was not under any historical pressure, so I could handle unceremonious with the recorded materials. In this piece there is no place for a silence - from the 'ideological' (subject of the piece) but also technical reasons. The only moments of silence show that silence is also dirty, seems to be a second-hand product, which discloses an information noise pollution of each piece of environment. For me the only reasonable compositional procedure not to bore the audience was to build the whole piece from the planes of different textures, referring to different ways of speech perception. awarded at emsPrize 2001 contest for text-sound composition (Stockholm).

POLISH DANCES for tape is a text-sound composition to the old-Polish poetry (18th century) commissioned by Experimental Studio of Polish Radio. The text by Rev. Baka was published in: "Uwagi o _mierci niechybnej wszystkim pospolitej, wierszem wyra_one przez X. Bak_ S.J. Professora Poetyki", Wyd. Orgelbranda, Wilno 1855.

CASCANDO is a musical realization of the radio play written by Samuel Beckett. The play has three characters: Opener, Voice and Music. Music is represented in the published edition by rows of dots eith no indication of the intended effect. Beckett characterizes Opener as ãdry as dustÒ and Voice as "low, panting".

Lidia Zielinska is a Polish composer, professor of composition and leader of the electroacoustic music studio at the Academy of Music in Poznan and professor of sound aesthetics at the Visual Arts Academy in Poznan, guest lecturer at summer courses in Poland, Belarussia, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Japan, Moldavia, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden; 70 compositions published, numerous awards for orchestral music, multimedia, electroacoustic works, experimental works for children (orchestral music: Belgrade 1979, Mannheim 1981, Paris 1984; multimedia: Warsaw 1982, Boswil 1987, Avignon 1988; electroacoustic works: Bourges 1997, Stockholm 2001); electroacoustic compositions realized at the EMS in Stockholm, SE PR Warsaw, IPEM/BRT Gent, studios in Cracow, Malmoe, Stuttgart and others; books, articles, papers, guest lectures, summer courses, workshops on sound and music, on acoustic ecology, on experimental music in Poland, on traditional Japan music; co-programmer of the annual International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn", board member of the Polish Composers' Union.

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