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

The pitch shifter / Christina Viola Oorebeek

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr sopr-m ten bar fl(pic fl-a) cl cl-b fg trp MIDI-keyb man hp 2perc 2vl vla vc cb el.

Das Kirschblütenfest : Opera / Erik Lotichius; text: original Japanese

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: Stenzo; teacher: Tenor; Tonani; his wife: Mezzo-soprano; Matsuo; chancellor: ???; Gemba; the chancellors vassal; ??? etc. Ensemble: 2 Flutes; 2 Oboes; English horn; 2 Clarinets in B-flat; 2 Bassoons; 3 Horns; 3 Trumpets; 3 Trombones; Timpani; Percussion; Mixed Choir; Strings.

Place Grimaldi : Opera / Hans Lachman; words by Prof. dr. H. Freudenthal

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: sopr mezzosopr ten bar bas-bar SATB 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bn 4h 3tr 3tb perc hp str

composition

octavia. trepanation : Opera based on the tragedy "Octavia", attributed to Seneca and Trotsky's essay on Lenin / Dmitri Kourliandski; libretto: Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski

Other authors:
Kourliandski, Dmitri (Composer)
Description:
In conducting our trepanation of revolution, we open a forehead and discover death, blood and tiranny. We sanitize it and graft a Buddha into the cavity, then we sew the forehead back up. We remove the source of the bloody revolution to seal off the notion of war forever. We transform a tyrant and send him to Nirvana.
Boris Yukhananov

The Opera’s music is based on the opening phrases of the revolutionary song Varshavyanika, but streches them out in almost 100 times. The temporal transformation of the song reveals various harmonic and melodic metamorphoses that become “nutritional material” for the 80-voice chorus, soloists and live electronic music thus arises a hermetic, self-referential construction that feeds on itself.
Dmitri Kourliandski