caresses on the ice wall (2023 / 24)

World premiere: 22 June 2024, HMT Leipzig (Probesaal), Germany ZfGM Festival

Performed by and dedicated to Ermis Theodorakis (piano) and Pierre Langrand (percussion)

duration: ca. 14′ – 15′

instrumentation: prepared piano and prepared tam-tam

Written between Leipzig, Mainz, Frankfurt, and Witten.

Program note
Shy branches grow slowly, crumbling the arctic, deep, bland, wide sky. Greyish murmurs caress the impenetrable skin. The warm underwater light allows to hear the footsteps of the shadows.

The work is structured in two parts:
I. hielo (ca. 6′ – 7′)
II. caresses (ca. 8′)