Recording from the premiere of the piece as part of the BRANDNEU festival in July 2022 in the St. Martins church in Kassel.
Laszlo Fassang – organ.

Commissioned by Kulturplattform St. Martin e. V. with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

The organ is an instrument that first impresses with its majestic appearance, its material. It is a sophisticated and complex body (the instrument itself) inside a specific and predetermined space (the body of the building). But similar to a human body, the organ needs air in order to create a new quality. A quality that sounds through the space giving structure to the relationship between frequencies and time. A body that breathes and invites the listener to be a part of it. Sharing its air in an ephemeral moment.

During the time I was writing this piece, the need of air, regarding the outside world, was very present. It is even more now. The iconic phrase from the dystopian film Total Recall became an urgent appeal: “Give these people air”!

Air (give These People Some) (2022)

Stone Age (2022) for violioncello and electronics
Total Duration 8' 40" minutes.

Ensemble Holophony Project
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Studio edited mix © Panayiotis Kokoras

2022

Stone Age [cello & electronics]

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Jeden (2014)

Between the words (2014)

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Karel Košárek - piano
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