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Opus 8

Ermir Bejo

Fixed Media

2018

Bass Clarinet

Bassoon

Electronic Keyboard

Fixed Media Audio

Flute

Horn

Piccolo

Violin

Program Notes: Writing, according to Italo Calvino, presented him with two branches, “two different drives toward exactitude that will never attain complete fulfillment: 1) The reduction of events to abstract patterns and forms, bodiless rationality, where one may trace lines that converge, projections, abstract forms, vectors of force; 2) The tangible aspect of things presented as precisely as possible; a space crammed with objects and attempts to create a verbal [but also aural] equivalent of that space.” Opus 8 similarly concerns with the opening and closing of these two different types of oneiric doors.
Recording Notes: 13 min. version.
Instruments used: Piccolo, Flute, Bass Clarinet Bb, Bassoon, French Horn F, Electric Piano, Glass Harmonica, Synths (CS-80, DX7, Geosonics), Sampler (Field Recordings, Voices, Custom Patches), Violin, & Effects (Delays, Filters, Saturators).
Produced by Ermir Bejo
Performer Credits: Stereo playback