Plugged!!!
Minas Borboudakis & Felix Dreher
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Introduction
All it takes is two men, cables, mixers, computers, filters, microphones, controllers and an on-stage piano to produce new sounds and forms.
“Plugged!!!” is a coming together of two musicians: a Greek pianist and a German electronic media performer. Their collaboration started out with a simple idea, extending the sound of a classical instrument in its conventional context and repertoire, which they subsequently developed and brought to fruition in works written for piano and pre-recorded material (Harvey, Kokoras, Borboudakis), and in free-form works (Riley) in which the sound is shaped and processed live.
In the concert's program, the waves of the Saronic gulf meet the spectrally processed sound waves of the piano (“Breakwater”), flowing form and electronically processed sound are combined with the philosophy of Heracleitus (“Ροαί III, Dataflow”), the unique harmonies of Olivier Messiaen are relived via electronics (“Tombeau de Messiaen”), and the minimalist sound unfolds, giving the sense of a multi-dimensional space (“In C”).
There will be a short after-concert presentation of the works by the performers, and an open discussion.
Photo: Marianna Karali
Panayiotis Kokoras (b. 1974)
“Breakwater”
for piano and tape
Jonathan Harvey (b. 1939)
“Tombeau de Messiaen”
for piano and tape
Minas Borboudakis (b. 1974)
«Ροαί III» (“Dataflow”)
for piano, synthetic and electro-acoustic sounds
Intermission
Terry Riley (b. 1935)
“In C”
for piano and loop machine
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Born in Heraklion, on the island of Crete, in 1974, Minas Borboudakis studied piano and composition at academies in Munich and Hamburg. In 2007, he presented his first opera, commissioned by the Munich Opera for its summer festival artistic directed by Kent Nagano. Central to his music are microtonal elements, complex rhythms, timbral structures, and the use of electronic sounds. He is mainly inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, myth and literature, as well as contemporary cosmological and metaphysical theory.
Felix Dreher was born in 1978 in Emmendingen, a small town north of Frankfurt in Germany. He studied sound recording and electronic music, and was awarded a scholarship to study sound direction at the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Since 2006, he has worked as a producer at the Studio05 Medienproduktion recording company, undertaking recordings for such companies as Wergo, Neos, Ars Musici, Naxos, and Brilliant Classics. In recent years, he has worked as a sound director with such leading ensembles and institutions as Musikfabrik, Oper Frankfurt, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Hamburger Klangwerktage, and Ultraschall Berlin. He is a long-term collaborator of Ensemble Modern.
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