L' osmose (2019)
for tape, diffused within a dome of 32 loudspeakers
Premiere performance:
September 19th, 2019 Oslo-Norway
The piece was commissioned by the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival as part of the ULYSSES JOURNEYS 2018-2019 and my nomination as Promising Young composer from the European-wide Ulysses Network / IRCAM 2018-2019.
Other performances:
Stereo version
November 15th 2019
DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York
meta.ξ concert series 2019-20
muted blast/2 - works for solo piano, piano with electronics, & tape
L’ osmose is an acousmatic composition commissioned by the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival 2019 and was mixed at the Notam, Studio 3 in Oslo. The piece has been originally composed and diffused within a dome of a 32-loudspeaker array. The material of the piece is comprised of synthesized and electroacoustic sounds whereas its acoustic profile formulates a virtual, 3D soundscape. My goal is the depiction of a live, sonic organism emerging from various different angles of the space. The composition addresses one of my most recent conceptions with regard to formal structure that of angular, phrasal displacement and the unpredictable collage of heterogeneous material. I am interested in displacements and juxtapositions and form remains to be subject of ongoing and unorthodox osmosis of ideas.
Visuals credit, Theofilos Petsios. This work was presented in Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas in October of 2021.
Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of high water potential to a region of low water potential, in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides. As the process evolves, uniformity takes over and eliminates the differences once observed. - Theofilos Petsios.