Ondarock
“… the dynamics of the timbres used are amazing, able to pass from very high frequencies to subsonic rants that move the stones.”
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Nikos Stavropoulos
Micro-Lieux
FormatCDLabelempreintes DIGITALesGenreElectronic
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Eight works by Nikos Stavropoulos from 2003 to 2017 on intimate, close-up acoustic space, several conceived in 5.1 or ambisonics, among them Topophilia, Karst Grotto and Granicus, written for percussionist Alexander Pepelasis, who plays it here.
Micro-Lieux gathers eight works that Nikos Stavropoulos composed between 2003 and 2017, several of them first conceived for 5.1 or ambisonic playback. The thread is the idea of aural micro-space: places of intimacy and closeness, rooted in the concrete material of the sounds, and the articulation of acoustic space in search of what he calls probable aural impossibilities. Many titles come from geology, botany, geometry or myth.
Topophilia (2016) borrows the term for a bond with a place to describe an abstract musical topos in the personal zone around the listener; it won first prizes at the Iannis Xenakis competition in Thessaloniki and at Destellos. Karst Grotto, made in Crete and at the ICST in Zurich, takes its sound world from karst landscapes, shaped by rainwater dissolving rock into fissures and small-scale textures. Granicus, commissioned by percussionist Alexander Pepelasis, who plays it here, uses dance rhythms of Southeast Europe and Asia Minor, set against one another, inverted and stretched; the score was also recorded and processed to make the tape. Ballistichory and Nyctinasty take their names from seed dispersal and from plant movement in the dark, and Granatum from the pomegranate. Atropos, named after the Fate who cuts the thread of life, lets the morphology of the sounds direct the structure, and Polychoron, dedicated to James Mooney, refers to a four-dimensional shape.
Born in Athens in 1975, Stavropoulos studied composition with Andrew Lewis at Bangor and completed a doctorate under Adrian Moore in Sheffield. Since 2006 he has taught at Leeds Beckett University, where he is Reader in Composition.
CD in OGpak, empreintes DIGITALes IMED 19159, 2019.
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Cat. number: IMED 19159
Year: 2019
To Periodiko
“Γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1975 και αφού έκανε εδώ μουσικές σπουδές συνέχισε σε ανώτερο επίπεδο στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Ουαλίας και στο Σέφιλντ.”
Chain DLK
“There’s a strongly academic approach at work in UK-based Nikos Stavropoulos’ first album (perhaps unsurprisingly for someone with a Doctor title).”
