related works

maps of non-existent cities. paris : for accordion and contrabass clarinet / Dmitri Kourliandski

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: acc cl-cb

Anomia : for soprano, large ensemble, video and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring: zang 2fl cl cl-b sax-a sax-t 2h 2tpt 2trb tv perc g-e g-b pf acc 4vn 2vla 2vc db tape

Nerve : for orchestra, soundtrack and text projection / Yannis Kyriakides

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring: picc 2fl 2cl 2ob 2fg 5h 2tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp 2perc str tape

Prostory Svitla : for large symphony orchestra and electronics / Alla Zagaykevych

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring: 3fl/fl-a/picc 3ob/eh 3cl/cl-b 3fg 4h 3tpt 3trb/trb-b tb 5perc hp cel str

composition

the riot of spring : for tape and orchestra / Dmitri Kourliandski

Other authors:
Kourliandski, Dmitri (Composer)
Description:
In my “The Riot of Spring” I question myself: “What is folklore today? What bears today the energy of the collective unconscious? Is it destructive or neutral for the elite post-postmodernistic consciousness? Is it compatible with the academic concert situation?”
The answers to these questions I try to find in turning to the rave culture, to the electronic music – dubstep, idm, d&b. This is not an attempt to imitate the existing genre, not an “away match”, but a rave prepared by the composers’ perception and, not to a lesser extent, an experience of the composer’s perception preparation by the rave.
I decided consciously not to synthesize new sounds, working with sound samples the way composers worked with folk or, to go deeper, with ready instrumental sounds and timbres in the European tradition. However, the structuring of the material follows the logic I used while working with a more familiar to me instrumental material.
Trying to define the genre of “The Riot of Spring” I’d derive a term “technoballet”, or “electroballet”.
At the same time, it is evident that the words “riot” and “spring” are full of connotations with the actual situation in Russia. I’m quite far from the politics, however, the situation we live in directly or indirectly influences us, induces to act or to reflect.
Dmitri Kourliandski