Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Georgia Spiropoulos on her piece and visiting San Francisco


Oria is a story..... a story about sound; or better an "echogony", the birth of sound. Born from silence (from nothing), sound emerges as breathy noise, becomes a "sea of noises" where a first island, the first note, is born in the first instrument; spreading into new notes and instruments meeting vocal sounds and returning to breath again.Coming to San Francisco for the first time, I will meet and work with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and the excellent, professional and friendly team I now know by email only. What is really exciting is the SFCMP’s interest in contemporary music coming from many different horizons and countries. I believe that when we take a sufficient distance - an indispensable distance- from our own country and culture then we are able to reconsider, to reconcile, and certainly to go deeper in our own culture. And this what the SFCMP does! I am really happy to meet all of you; and really excited to see San Francisco for the first time!

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