EWA TRĘBACZ [read like: Eva Trembatch]

things lost things invisible

(2007)

for Ambisonic space and orchestra

       

 

Work commissioned by the 50th International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Poland.

Work recommended by the 56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers, Paris 2009.

Work nominated for the OPUS Public Media Prize 2008, Poland.

 

For a moment he had the power of the possessed - the power to awaken in the beholders wonder, pain, pity, and a fearful near sense of things invisible, of things dark and mute, that surround the loneliness of mankind.

Joseph Conrad. Tales of Unrest.

 


things lost things invisible is a hybrid work combining features of a large orchestral form with a spatial sound installation, exploring periphony. It involves a symphony orchestra divided into groups and a 3-dimensional speaker system to reproduce the electronic layer. The work is a large-scale acoustic experiment, where the entire sound environment is being treated as a body of a one complex instrument, with the audience located inside the resonance box of that instrument.

 

 

The initial sound material was recorded by the composer with the use of the Soundfield ST-250 Ambisonic microphone in one of the most acoustically unique spaces in the United States: the Dan Harpole Cistern in Fort Worden, Washington State. This legendary space is located underground, on a former military base. It is characterized by a 45-second reverberation time and bizarre sound trajectories. 

 

Orchestral parts and the final shape of the entire work have been derived from those recordings, so the spatial features of the Cistern became the major formative principle.

 


 

Special thanks to:

Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington

Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington

Mark Haslam, for his on-going support for my projects and his assistance in recording sessions

PREMIERE

September 22, 2007

50th International Festival of Contemporary Music

WARSAW AUTUMN 2007

XXI International Expocentre

Warsaw, Poland

 

K.Szymanowski Academic Symphony Orchestra

   Arturo Tamayo, Szymon Bywalec, conductors 

 

Virtual Soloists (electronic layer):

   Josiah Boothby, French horn 

   Toby Penk, trumpet 

   Colby Wiley, trombone

 

Arturo Tamayo studied composition in the Conservatorio de Música de Madrid and conducting with Pierre Boulez in Basel and in the Musik Hochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau, where he later taught courses on 20th-century music interpretation for two decades. He has conducted most of Europe’s major orchestras and has appeared as a conductor at the most important European festivals, and with the greatest singers and virtuosi of our day. He teaches professional courses for conductors at the Conservatorio di Lugano and Musikene in Spain.

 

Szymon Bywalec graduated in symphonic and opera conducting from the Academy of Music in Katowice after studies with Jan Wincenty Hawel and in oboe from the Academy of Music in Cracow where he studied with Prof. Jerzy Kotyczka. He developed his abilities at master classes taught by Gianluigi Gelmetti and Lothar Zagrosek in the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He is the permanent conductor of New Music Orchestra and a lecturer on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Katowice.

 

Karol Szymanowski Academic Symphony Orchestra

Founded in 2002, directed by Szymon Bywalec, the ensemble continues the tradition of the student orchestra directed and conducted by Karol Stryja, Napoleon Siess and Jan Wincenty Hawel. It has also performed under such eminent conductors as Gabriel Chmura, Larry Livingston, Krzysztof Penderecki, Arturo Tamayo, Takuo Yuasa, Jacek Kaspszyk, Michał Klauza, Nicolas Cleobury, Klaus Arp and Andreas Weiss.

 


 

56th UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers - Paris, 2009

 

In June 2009 the recording of things lost things invisible produced by Polish Radio received a prestigious recommendation of the International Rostrum of Composers, followed by multiple radio broadcasts around the world. The Rostrum has been organized since 1954 by the International Music Council, associated with UNESCO. 57 works from 27 radio stations from four continents were presented in Paris during the 56th edition of the Rostrum.

 

Jun 30, 2010 Radio Latvia
May 12, 2010

NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

May 5, 2010

Radio Slovenija

Apr 17, 2010 CBC Radio 2, The Signal

Apr 15, 2010

CBC Radio Canada, Espace musique

Apr 14, 2010

Radio Orpheus - Russian State Radio Centre   

Apr 13, 2010

Radio New Zealand
Feb 16, 2010

Estonian Public Broadcasting

Feb 10, 2010

RTS/Radio Belgrade
Dec 15, 2009

Netherlands Public Broadcasting

Dec 6, 2009

Argentina - Radio Universidad National LM

Nov 22, 2009 Icelandic National Broadcasting
Sep 28, 2009 Swedish Radio
Sep 24, 2009 Finnish Broadcasting Company
Aug 8, 2009 RTP - Portugal, Antena 2

Jul 30, 2009

Radio Television Hong Kong - Radio 4

Jul 29, 2009

Bulgarian National Radio

Jul 3, 2009

Lietuvos Radijas

Jul 1, 2009

Ireland, RTE

Jun 8, 2009

Polish Radio (Polskie Radio Program 2)