the island remained silent
Media score
Written for the Parasite Village, Future Traditions Orchestra, Dresden, April 2023.
the island remained silent is a media score, an interactive and generative score written in java (on the Processing platform). The score is generated by audio input from the musicians. The form of the piece is a song cycle, where the auto-generated melodies are not sung but played by an ensemble. It is based on eight texts about a narrator’s first encounter with an island - text by Jean Girardoux, Daniel Defoe, Lucien of Samosata, William Golding, JG Ballard amongst others. It was originally composed for a special ensemble of 19 musicians, The Future Tradition Orchestra, comprising mostly of non-western instruments. The piece utilises a freedom in how these different traditions could interpret and ornament these generated melodies.
Premiere performance in Hellerau Dresden, 29.04.23 performed by:
- Bassem Alkhouri: kanun
- Matthew Bookert: trombone
- Keyvan Chemirani: percussion, tonbak
- Muhammed Muaz Ceyhan: yaylı tambur
- Susanne Fröhlich: flutes, recorder
- Naoko Kikuchi: koto
- Emil Kuyumcuyan: percussion
- Yannis Kyriakides: electronics
- Sofiya Levchenko: violin
- Neva Özgen Kösoğlu: kemençe
- Ulrich Mertin: viola
- Cham Saloum: oud
- Cymin Samawatie: piano, voice
- Ralf Schwarz: double bass
- Ken Ueno: voice
- Ravshan Tukhtamishev: chang
- Milian Vogel: saxophone
- Iñigo Giner Miranda: concert staging
- Elisa Erkelenz: curation and dramaturgy