commissioned by Onassis Stegi
Athens, 28.02.2021

The title refers to the painting ''The Trees have ears and the Field has eyes'' by Hieronymus Bosch

members of TETTTIΞ ensemble

baritone saxophone- Guido de Flaviis
double bass- Charis Pazaroulas
accordion- Stamatis Pasopoulos

the forest that hears the field that sees / vc, cb, bar sax

KMN / for small ensemble  / 2020

――  dedicated to Слабе Ц. ――

• performed by Oros Ensemble 
Dimitris Karagiannakidis ― cello
Apostolis Koutsogiannis ― recorders
Eirini Krikoni ― violin
George Madikas ― vibraphone
Antonios Tsachtanis ― clarinet
Konstantinos Zigkeridis ― accordion

* Το παρόν έργο αποτελεί ανάθεση της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος «Η αναβίωση της Βαμβακούς», το οποίο εντάσσεται στο ευρύτερο πρόγραμμα του Ιδρύματος Σταύρος Νιάρχoς «Πρωτοβουλία για τη Λακωνία»

ΚΜΝ

Even the sky screams sometimes too II (2018) for bajan solo. Commissioned for the Delian Academy for New Music 2018, GR, with the friendly support of SIEMENS Music Foundation. 

Performed by Panagiotis Andreoglou at the Opening Concert of the outHEAR New Music Week, Dec 8, 2019. https://www.outhearnewmusic.com/post/music-dialogues-opening-concert-for-solo-accordion
More info for Panagiotis Andreoglou at http://www.panagiotisandreoglou.com/

Program note

The Russian composer Sergei Berinsky said of the bajan that it is an instrument with “human breath, but an inhuman voice, …” In my first work for bajan, I sought to explore its ‘human breath’ with a large measure of spontaneity of expression and gain some insight on the ‘peculiarities’ and particularities of this not widely understood instrument.

Although some extended techniques are applied — some air-noises, sparse breaths, and button pizzicati — this is fundamentally a tonally and rhythmically inclined work, immersing into the immense range of timbral shadings of the instrument.

The piece is set in two halves of equal duration: a slow, immersive, fuzzy and explorative first part with a fragmentary style and frequent changes of tension and pace, introspective regions of repose followed by energetic gestural rapidity; and a decisive, virtuosic, fast, explosive and almost demonic, rhythmically motor-driven second part. 

All musical ideas are imperfect and vulnerable, ephemeral and distorted. They are constantly in a state of flux and are constantly being revised.

Dimitri Papageorgiou, Even The Sky Screams Sometimes Too II

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