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Title:  A Conspiracy Cantata Artist:  Yannis Kyriakides Label:  Unsounds Format:  CD Price:  € 12.50   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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with Ayelet Harpaz, Stephie Buttrich and Marion von Tilzer

A CD of three works by Yannis Kyriakides including the 45' minute prize winning work from the Gaudeamus International Composition Competition 2000. These three works have been performed and broadcast around the world. This is the long-awaited first CD of Greek-Cypriot/British Amsterdam based composer and electronic improviser. Performing on the CD are Ayelet Harpaz and Stephie Buttrich (voices), Marion von Tilzer (piano) and Yannis Kyriakides (electronics).
a conSPIracy cantata
SPI is an electronic cantata which juxtaposes two forms of cryptic message communication: the clandestine world of spy number transmissions on the shortwave radio, and the enigmatic uttering of the ancient oracle of Delphi. SPI is scored for two alto voices, piano and electronics. The electronic sounds are made up of layers of radio transmissions, noise textures, pre-recorded voices and sampled piano sounds.The piece weaves together an archaic modal sound world with a chilling cold war atmosphere.
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Four loudspeakers transmitting a constant signal of sliding sine-tones are installed inside a piano where they create sympathetic vibrations with the strings. The piano picks out single notes from this slow flowing harmonic stream.
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For voice, insect sounds and drum-machine is an electronic garden of eden - a drum machine calls out to its fellow rhythm machines in nature .
Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969 and emigrated with his family to England in 1975. After travelling for a year with his violin in the near east he returned to England to study musicology at York University, later being drawn by the music of Louis Andriessen to move to The Netherlands, to study with him. At this time he also had the inspiring opportunity to collaborate on three projects with the maverick electronic composer/theatre-maker Dick Raijmaakers. Living in Amsterdam he composes and performs in various fields including concert music, electronic improvisation, contemporary dance, theatre and new media. Ensembles and musicians he has worked with include Icebreaker, LOOS, ASKO, MAE, Ugly Culture, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, Orkest De Volharding and MIMEO.
His musical language is often characterised by shifting speeds unfolding on long time spans - often with a high rhythmic energy - the use of unorthodox sound sources and an exploration of spaces or atmospheres that highlight physical sound , temporal experience and the conceptual use of musical idiom and language.

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