The Image
Sonare’s utterance is a clearly personal issue. However, Sonare needs to publicize it – in order to count afterwards the ‘likes’ received one-by-one. At the same time, it feels nostalgic for an era that passed; an outrider of the era it lives in, which "much more than the cult of the individual, inaugurated the cult of the ‘character’".

The Form
A study on "sonata form with reversed recapitulation". In a "reversed recapitulation" the themes occur in reversed order, in comparison to the order they have occurred in Exposition. That way, the third part of the work is the mirror image of the first.
Thus, the work has a symmetrical design where the part C is located in the middle and is surrounded by AB on the one side, and by BA on the other. Reversed recapitulation is considered a technique prefered mostly by romantic composers.

*Sonare was presented in the electroacoustic music festival 'Days 2011' (Rethymno Crete, Greece)

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Η εικόνα
Η φωνή του Sonare είναι καθαρά προσωπική. Ωστόσο το Sonare νιώθει την ανάγκη να τη δημοσιοποιήσει – για να καταμετρήσει στη συνέχεια αγωνιωδώς τα ‘like’ που θα εισπράξει. Παράλληλα, νοσταλγεί μια παλιότερη εποχή· μια εποχή προπομπό της δικής του η οποία «περισσότερο από την λατρεία του ατόμου, εγκαινίασε τη λατρεία του προσώπου».

Η μορφή
Σπουδή σε φόρμα σονάτας με ανεστραμμένη Ανακεφαλαίωση (reversed Recapitulation). Στην ανεστραμμένη Ανακεφαλαίωση τα Θέματα εμφανίζονται με αντίθετη σειρά σε σχέση με την Έκθεση δίνοντας στη συνολική φόρμα την εναντιομορφία.
Η φόρμα αποκτά συμμετρικό και εναντιόμορφο σχήμα με κέντρο το C. Η ανεστραμμένη Aνακεφαλαίωση ήταν συνήθεια κυρίως των συνθετών του Ρομαντισμού.

*Το Sonare παρουσιάστηκε στο φεστιβάλ ηλεκτρονικής μουσικής 'Μέρες 2011' (Ρέθυμνο)

Electronic Works

Sonare

Rebirth

A piece for 13 instrumentalists. Written in 2006 for the Profil festival in Romania, the piece stands as a question whether romanticism has a place in contemporary music or not. Romanticism in general is a very important binding arch in my music and this piece is one of the main pieces based on this theme of romance.

The recording is from a concert part of the Moving Music workshop in Vienna 2007.

Dialogue with a Forbidden Muse

Thomas Beltsios Quartet - Draft EP

Federico Calcagno: clarinet
Thomas Beltsios: guitar, compositions
David Macchione: double bass
Nick Thessalonikefs: drums

Recorded 20th June, 2020 in Amsterdam
Sound Recorded by Alistair Payne
Mixed/Mastered by Ido Zilberman
Videoshoot by Qianfu Ye

03. Thomas Beltsios Quartet - Katharos Eparxiotismos (Pure Provincialism)

02. Thomas Beltsios Quartet - Superabundance

Thomas Beltsios Quartet - Draft EP

Federico Calcagno: clarinet
Thomas Beltsios: guitar, compositions
David Macchione: double bass
Nick Thessalonikefs: drums

Recorded 20th June, 2020 in Amsterdam
Sound Recorded by Alistair Payne
Mixed/Mastered by Ido Zilberman

01. Thomas Beltsios Quartet - Arrival

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Sonare

Rigas Rigakis