under the soil

Premiered by Ensemble et cetera  (Dustin Donahue, marimba; Curt Miller, clarinet; Scott Worthington, double bass) at Conrad Prebys Music Center - Recital Hall. October 10th 2014.

Program Notes

The prefix intra- signifies ‘within’ or ‘between layers of’, hence the title intrascaling means between layers of scaling and is a reference to the use of durational ratios of attacks, that control the rhythmicity and permeate various compositional aspects of the work, at various temporal levels by means of scale invariance. I am very interested in the conflict between variance and invariance among different—two, three, or even more—superposed rhythmic structures. I find very appealing the fact that, the antagonistic relationship of such perpetually interwoven rhythmic structures and their metric ambiguity results from a limited number of sets of invariant data, each one set independently in motion from the others, at different scales.

The texture of Intrascalings is based on a constant flow of rapid pulses that is confronted by multiple, polyrhythmic temporal streams of different and varying densities. The contrasting timbres that have been assigned to the layers of the design, as well as their different registral positioning create an effect of independent intrwoven lines, which are in constant conflict with one another, thus maintaing an intense and, at times, escalating energy plain until the end of the work. 

The pitch domain, on the other side, is governed by an additive and combinatorial generative process, which takes a few germinal cells as input and engenders inexaustible variants at the output. Cyclic patterned recurrences of patterns, that share the same underlying structure, unfold in time, elaborating centripetally on the the same structural complex again and again, creating, maintaing and exalting one or various states from a single or from a variety of perspectives.

In this work I make extensive use of algorithmic routines that have been implemented in the frame of the research project Patterns of Intuition at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts at Graz, Austria. 

Intrascalings (2014)

Until the Light Sets Us Free, String Quartet No.1 (2014)

...nestabilno uzbuđujuće... (2016)
for Great Bass Paetzold Recorder, Harp, Cello, Accordion and Percussion

Studio6 & ensemble proton bern:
Karolina Bäter - Great Bass Paetzold Recorder 
Milana Zarić - Harp
Jan-Filip Ťupa - Cello
Bastian Pfefferli - Percussion
Vladimir Blagojević - Accordion

Piece commissioned by the Collective Studio6 Belgrade 

Live Recording 15 June 2017 at the Kornhausforum Bern, IGNM Bern Concert Series.

...nestabilno uzbuđujuće...

Aleph for solo contrabass,
Nikos Tsoukalas - Contrabass
Commissioned by the Onassis Cultural Foundation

Aleph for solo contrabass

Performed in EARTH#SKY#SPACE festival in 22/06/18, Hannover.
Conducted by Andreas Felber. Vocalensemble der HMTMH.

Fall, leaves, fall
by Emily Bronte

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow
Blossom where the rose should grow;
I shall sing when night’s decay
Ushers in a drearier day.

Fall Leaves Fall, for SSAA solo voices (2018)

Performed by Ensemble Suono Giallo
Flute: Andrea Biagini
Saxophone: Michele Bianchini
Percussion: Laura Mancini
Piano: Simone Nocchi

Commissioned by Ensemble Suono Giallo and IlSuono Contemporary Music Week

Live recorded at Teatro degli Illuminati, Città di Castello (Italy).

Invocazione all'ignoto (2018)| bass flute, baritone saxophone, percussion and piano

Music for vocal ensemble of five voices.

Johanna Zimmer: High Soprano
Truike van der Poel: Mezzo-Soprano
Martin Nagy: Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena: Baritone
Andreas Fischer: Bass

Written for Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart.
Performed at LAC, Lugano, Switzerland on 29.07.2018 during Ticino Musica Festival.

Huge thanks to Oscar Bianchi, Bernhard Gander and the members of Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart!

-aphon

Performed by Ensemble intercontemporain
Conducted by Matthias Pintscher
Recorded live on June 14th 2019 at Cité de la Musique, Paris

Le lieu et la formule (2019) for large ensemble

Popcorn

"Unending are the Mazes it Engenders" for counter tenor and tenor recorder. Commissioned by UMSn'JIP (Xavier Hagen - counter tenor, Ulrike Mayer Spohn - recorders). 

Performance at a concert of the Contemporary Music Lab (Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Solon Michailidis Hall, 23 Feb 2013.  

The work is a maze of utterances of an uncanny, palpitating sound, which unravels in winding paths, with interconnected twists and turns, through algorithmic mutations and reformulations, continuously circling back to itself by creating and not resolving the dialectics that underly its construction. Its mazing construction lacks of an entrance, a center, and possibility of escape; it is a maze without a monster and a death-defying hero . . . The title is a quotation of a verse from the poem Everness by the Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Louis Borges:

And everything is part of that diverse 
Crystal of memory, the universe; 
Unending are the mazes it engenders

You can get the score at http://www.babelscores.com/en/catalog/vocal-music/solo-voice-and-accompaniment/unending-are-the-mazes-it-engenders

Unending are the Mazes it Engenders

Papageorgiou’s music has and always has had a certain predilection towards various forms of similarity and structural reiteration. In such a context, structural redundancy and parsimony stand at the epicenter of his work, as recurrences of patterns that share the same underlying structure unfold in time, elaborating centripetally on the same structural complex or similar structural features, again and again, creating, maintaining and exalting one or various states from a single or from a variety of perspectives.
He has appeared in festivals, conferences, and concerts in most European countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus), in Russia, Serbia, Armenia, Iran, Turkey, and several States of the U.S.A. (NY, CA, IL, FL, OH, IA, OK, NV, etc). Most notably his music has been performed at Darmstadt Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Unerhörte Musik (Germany), Klangforum Concert Series, Konzerthaus Wien; Musik Protokol, Graz; Klangspuren, Schwaz; Tage Neuer Musik, Graz; 4020.Mehr als Musik, Linz (Austria),  Avignon Festival (France), NUNC4, Chicago; Grains of Sound, San Francisco; Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival; Research on Contemporary Composition Conference, University of North Georgia (U.S.A.), TUUDEN MUSIIKIN LOKAKUU Festival (Finland); Dialog, Gare du Nord – Bahnhof für Neue Musik, Basel; Forum Wallis Contemporary Music Festival  (Switzerland), Diffrazioni Florence Multimedia Festival; Il Suono Music Week (Italy);  ME_MMIX, Festival de Música Electrónica, Mallorca (Spain), ICMC|SMC International Computer Music Conference, Athens; Alternative Stage, Greek National Opera; Onassis Stegi, Athens; Off Borders, Thessaloniki; Freiraum Festival, Thessaloniki (Greece), Pharos Arts Foundation 3rd International Contemporary Music Festival (Cyprus), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (Iran),  28th International Review of Composers, Belgrade (Serbia), inner sOUNDscapes (Oklahoma, USA), etc. He has collaborated with ensembles such as Arditti String Quartet (UK); Klangforum Wien, Reconsil, Zeitfluss, Airborne Extended, Studio Dan, Trio ArtResonanz, Pro Arte Chor (Austria); Proxima Centauri (France); Ensemble Il Suono Giallo (Italy); Interface (Germany); Ensemble Et Cetera, CNM Ensemble Iowa, BGSU New Music Ensemble, Neophonia, University of Nevada New Music Ensemble (USA); Oerknal (Netherlands); UMS & JIP (Switzerland); Ensemble Assonance (Armenia); Thessaloniki National Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Athens, dissonart, Trio IAMA, duo Goliardi (Greece).
In December 2016 he served as visiting composer at the University of Iowa School of Music and the University of Nevada at Reno; in April 2017 he was visiting composer at the University of Music, Drama and Media at Hanover, and in June 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 as a faculty member at the Delian Academy for New Music, an international summer academy for composers, which is curated under the auspices of Georges Aperghis. Since 2017 he holds composition master classes in Tehran, Iran.
He is one of the artistic co-directors of outHEAR  New Music Week. He is also an artistic advisor and a member of the scheduling committee of the Tehran International Electronic Music Festival. 
Currently an associate professor of composition, he was appointed at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2007.

Intrascalings (2014)

Dimitri Papageorgiou

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