Yannis Kyriakides

A live hörspiel by Saskia de Jong and Yannis Kyriakides, produced by WORM / Klangendum together with the Wintertuin in Nijmegen. The inspiration source of geluidhuiden / soundskins is ventriloquism, in the literal and metaphorical sense. In a raw and hypnotic soundscape, inner and outer voices compete to gain dominance, whispering and stuttering.

Geluidhuiden/ Soundskins (with Saskia de Jong)

Selves for bass clarinet, string orchestra, live electronics by Yannis Kyriakides. Premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival 2023 performed by Gareth Davis (bass clarinet) and AUKSO Orkiestra conducted by Marek Mos.

Selves (for bass clarinet, string orchestra, live electronics)

Ein Schemen by Yannis Kyriakides -  a recomposition of Ein Deutsches Requiem of Johannes Brahms . Nederlands Kamerkoor and Remy van Kesteren(harp), under the direction of Peter Dijkstra. Live recording from Hertz, Tivoli-Vredenburg, Utrecht. Recorded by Wijnand de Groot (21st May 2017)

Ein Schemen (live recording)

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.

Selves (for bass clarinet, string orchestra, live electronics)

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