"Resonances" was a collective project created by a group of composers, in which I was glad to take part and write the closing "movement" of this chamber music experiment. Dedicated to G.G.Scott - one of the England's iconic architects, it took place in the St Mary Abbot's Church, one of his beautiful creations.
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The visual and acoustic environment of the church served both as inspiration for the music and as a performing space that directly affected it - the six chamber groups were placed in the certain parts of the hall - each producing a unique sonority, while also creating a captivating sound world inside the entire church.

"RESONANCE 6" from "Resonances for Sir George Gilbert Scott"

Stefan Bulyha - clarinet
Me - piano
Live recording from Swindon, UK (December 2022)

This title is both a literal representation and a rather abstract collective of musical imagery...
Chimaeras, creatures of a very particular appearance in Greek Mythology, have gradually shape-shifted themselves into crucial symbols of Gothic architecture - distorted and gruesome, yet embellishing such beautiful cathedrals as Notre-Dame de Paris.
Biology describes a chimaera as a single organism that contains two sets of DNA - and so, merges two different "individuals" in itself.
Another, somewhat sentimental definition that the word has acquired overtime is an "illusory, intangible dream, a delusion"...

"chimaeras" for clarinet & piano: cycle in three movements (2022)

> Ukrainian composer and conductor 
> Royal College of Music (London, UK)

"chimaeras" for clarinet & piano: cycle in three movements (2022)

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