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Piotr Tabakiernik |
Piotr Tabakiernik è
un compositore polacco nato nel 1986. Nel 2009 si è diplomato in composizione
alla Chopin University col Prof. Stanislaw Moryto. He vinto svariati premi di
concorsi, fra cui il 4o premio e il premio speciale al concorso Musica
Sacra di Czestochowa. Le sue composizioni sono state eseguite in patria e
all’estero. Ha scritto musica per teatro, film ed altri eventi. Si interessa
anche di performance art, happening e, oltre alla musica, di
linguistica e di teoria del linguaggio. Oltre al quartetto
in programma, le sue composizioni più significative scritte fra il 2007 e il
2009 sono Streets are drunk and whisperin’ secret dialects per
violoncello e pianoforte, Felieton per orchestra, Concerto for
things and instruments, Kha for performer and computer, Three
pieces for orchestra. English biography pdf written by the
composer |
Piotr Tabakiernik
Echoes of
suspended sounds.
(Author’s commentary)
Nono between the lines
Inspiration is one of the most important concepts
in composer’s dictionary. Searching for it, recognition of its possibilities
and accomplishment of ideas that it gives – here is the substance of composer’s
activities. So all his investigations of the individual technique, musical form
and language should be “in inspiration’s service”.
In the case of Echoes of suspended sounds the inspiration was given clearly: it
was just “Nono”. But there was a plenty of meanings of this short word and it had
taken a long time before the conception of the work cleared up. The process of
idea’s semantic limitation restricted it to one composition – Il canto sospeso. In Echoes it is the pretext and the
context, essence and a form, a symbol and a material. Every single note refers
to Nono’s composition, every musical thought and every conception has its
beginning in his work. The idea of Il
canto sounds in my composition as an echo of torn melodies and lone tones
scattered in the score of Nono’s masterpiece.
Three fragments of Il canto sospeso – its beginning, middle and ending – together with
four glittering chords based on four sounds from the central moment of the
composition, stand in the score of Echoes
as columns on which musical lines are suspended. Relationship between sounds
are founded on all-interval row that is the basis of Nono’s work, its
instrumentation and expression inspires research of microtonal and extended
techniques’ possibilities. Atmosphere created by short motives, rugged phrases,
sudden accents and expressive passages is similar in both pieces. At last ten
names of European
anti-fascist resistance fighters, who had been condemned to death, the authors of letters that were Nono’s
inspiration, appear like some kind of the acrostic – whispering accompaniment
of distant voice singing the forgotten complaint. To the procession of ten
martyrs has joined one more soul whose bloodless sacrifice sounds like
suspending chant, his own Il canto
sospeso. Echoes of suspended sounds
are just silent shadow of this.
/P. Tabakiernik)