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What If I Made It All Up? - for The Busy Drone

Piedras de río (River stones) for Accordion and string quartet
Performed by Michele Bianco (Accordion) and String quartet "The Bridges".
Violin I - Diemante Merkeviciute
Violin II - Milda Kraujutaitytė
Viola - Gabrielė Zaneuskaitė
Violoncello - Ana Čirkova

Piedras De Río

Ode to Man was written for 4 female voices (& electronics) from the vocal group Silbersee, for their production Homo Instrumentalis. It is based on the text from the chorus of Antigone by Sophocles (line 332-375) known as The Ode to Man. 

The music is set to the original Greek text, but my personal favourite translation is this one by Anne Carson:

Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more
terribly quiet than Man:
his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea
in marble winter,
up the stiff blue waves and every Tuesday
down he grinds the unastonishable earth
with horse and shatter.

Shatters too the cheeks of birds and traps them in his forest headlights,
salty silvers roll into his net, he weaves it just for that,
this terribly quiet customer.
He dooms
animals and mountains technically,
by yoke he makes the bull bend, the horse to its knees.

And utterance and thought as clear as complicated air and
moods that make a city moral, these he taught himself.
The snowy cold he knows to flee
and every human exigency crackles as he plugs it in:
every outlet works but
one.
Death stays dark.

Death he cannot doom.
   Fabrications notwithstanding.
Evil, good, laws, gods,
honest oath taking notwithstanding.
Hilarious in his high city
you see him cantering just as he please,
the lava up to here.

Ode to Man

Greek National Opera Alternative Stage, 11.04.2019

excerpt from the music-theatre production ''Return, a polyphonic work based on the original text of Dante's Inferno''. 

voice- Savina Yannatou
voice- Apostolis Psichramis
voice- Christoph Blum
voice, zither- Michalis Paraskakis
voice, synthesizer- Nikos Ioakeim
accordion- Stamatis Pasopoulos
waterphone- Nikos Galenianos

Canto 1 - Dante's Inferno / music theatre

Nikos Galenianos

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