Panic . Melancholy
Panic
Panic stands on the border between “serious” electro-acoustic music and its exaggeration. It reflects the way of living in today’s metropolis with its rush hours, lack of time and noise pollution, its everyday stress and loneliness. The result – panic.
The initial material of Panic is the filtered beginning of my Night Music for large ensemble. The main sources of the piece are graphic patterns used as filters, transforming graphic images into sound objects.
Melancholy
The title reflects the mood of the piece; it is a lyric composition based on the pre-recorded voice. The voice samples were transformed in different ways. Certain partials of words were extracted to create rich textures of voices. The two sung notes, E and D-sharp, are the ‘central interval’ of Melancholy, unstable by itself, but not dissonant. The interchange of these two notes creates a balancing effect, associated with a children’s “seesaw.”
