Always great to hear good acousmatic music

Tempera (Sinfonietta Rīga & conductor Normunds Šnē

Orbit is the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star or planet. The eccentricity of the path and speed of the moving objects can vary. In this respect sound is treated in this piece as a moving object. Electronic and piano parts can be considered as two celestial objects moving either in regular trajectories or deviating from circularity.

composed by Dimitris Maronidis
Performed by Gundega Smite (piano)

July 2014

dedicated to Gundega Smite

Thessaloniki - Riga |2014|
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Orbits (for piano and tape)

Played by Herta Hansena (pno) & Ilona Meija (fl)

Hello Mr. Mozart for flute/piano (Ilona Meija & Herta Hansena)

Magnificat. Latvian Radio choir, conductor Kaspars Putniņš

Text: Marc Strand (I,III) Ezra Pound (II)

ABSENCES for soprano/ prepared pno_Gunta Gelgote & Lelde Tīrele

"Aijā" (Ēriks Kiršfelds,Violoncello)

The work “Transient Beauty” was composed at ICST ZHdK Zurich during a two weeks residency in August of 2015 and it reflects all the dramatic conditions I was going through, in the previous month, during a very unstable (politically and economically) period in Greece. The form of the piece consists in reality a transition from a very dense, noisy, harsh and chaotic sound world to the beauty and tranquility of a calm woman's voice reflecting the alteration between feelings of immense anxiety and hope. 

[...]Turning shadow into transient beauty (T.S. Eliot)

Zurich August 2015
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Transient Beauty (for Tape)

Ensemble Modern, cond. Clemens Heil

"I have attempted to create music that is, as it were, self-aware, reflecting upon itself. The ‘sounding personality’ is essentially dual in its character – indirectly alluding to Robert Schumann, the composer of introvert music par excellence, its dreamer self (Eusebius) seeks for an optimal distance of a sight that would allow it to observe its own sensations, colors and shades – in other words, its passionate self (Florestan). “What is the logic therein?” reflects Eusebius, when occasionally settling on that quiet and silent land, from which it stoically observes its own constructive as well as deconstructive forces – its surges and its storms... I have associatively linked the condition for such introspective examination with the image of darkroom – a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive materials." JP 2012

(Commissioned within the project "Myths, Nation, Identities" – an initiative by Goethe-Institut and Ensemble Modern)


Darkroom (Ein Fantasiestück für Ensemble, 2012)

"Εδώ είμαι. Μη Φοβάσαι. ― Μη βασανίζεσαι άλλο. Ήσυχος, στο στρώμα πλάγιαζε· σκεπάσου,
να μη βλέπεις ―να μην κοιτάς. Δεν πρέπει να Κοιτάς
το τίποτε· γιατί κι εκείνο στο τέλος θα γυρίσει, και θα σε δει.
Δεν πρέπει
―ν' αφήνεις να βλέπει
η ψυχή· γιατί αυτό που μόνο εκείνη μπορεί
να δει, στο τέλος ―θα το Δείς
―κι εσύ· "

“Here I am. Don’t be afraid. ― Don’t torture yourself anymore. Quietly 
lie on your mattress; cover yourself,
don’t see ― do Not look. You should not Look at the
Nothing; or Nothing will return in the end, and will See you.
You Should not
―let the soul to see; for what only soul can
see, in the end ―you'll see."

This piece was composed for the Ancient Drama Theatre play "Orestes" by Euripides translated by Giorgos Chimonas and staged in 2014 by the Theatre Group "KUNST" directed by Michalis Sionas.

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Black Rain (for piano)

Lines. Points of Intersection (Vineta Sareika, vno & Lauma Skride, pno)

"Kāpnes" (Inga Šļubovska - Kancēviča, soprano, Agnese Egliņa, piano)

Dimitris Maronidis is a Greek composer of acoustic, electroacoustic, mixed media, and interactive music. In his most recent works, he aims to synthesize these fields, and extensively explores algorithmic precesses for organizing his musical material. 

His works, installations, and performances have been presented around the world by many ensembles and orchestras (Lorraine Symphony Orchestra (FR), State Orchestra of Thessaloniki (GR), State Orchestra of Athens (GR), Nieuw Ensemble (NL), dissonArt ensemble (GR), Piandemonium (Gr), ContraTempo Chamber Orchestra (GR), Diotima String Quartet (FR), Chimera Ensemble (UK), devotioModerna (RO), Construction Ensemble (SRB), Trio Orbit (GR), Ums ’n Jip (CH), ART-i-Shock (LV), Altera Veritas (LV), Arena Festival (LV), etc.). His electronic works are also regularly performed in many venues across the world (MusLab (Mex), MusicaViva SoundWalk (POR), Open Festiva Venice Biennale (IT), Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (CH), Monaco Electroacoustic Days (MON), Espacio Sonoro (MEX), Forum Neue Musik (DE), MOMus (GR) e.t.c.

/* Please listen to the music available here with a decent pair of loudspeakers or headphones. Computer or phone built-in speakers are not designed to deliver the full spectrum of sound. Listening to this music with your device’s built-in equipment would be like looking at a painting through sunglasses and with one eye shut!*/

Transient Beauty (for Tape)

Dimitris Maronidis

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