Smirnov, Grigory: Mirrors of Emptiness for Marimba and Digital Delay

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15 Min.; 4 mallets, 5-Oktav-Marimba; advvanced

Year of publication: 2008
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Performed by Jia Jia Qiao


About the composer:

"Grigory Smirnov was born in 1982 in Novosibirsk, in the Siberian part of Russia. He studied piano at the Novosibirsk Music College (1996-2000) and composition at the Novosibirsk State Conservatoire (2000-2006), where his teacher was Yuri Yukechev. His composer's output includes chamber, orchestral, choral and electronic works. Grigory Smirnov is also a piano performer working mostly in the field of improvisation music."

Mirrors of Emptiness:

Digital delay (echo) produces reflections of sound like a mirror produces reflections of light. Sound of marimba reminded me of something empty: marimba actually uses a physical emptiness for the acoustic resonance. I thought about how emptiness can produce some illusion of ‘fullness’ just through numerous reflections of itself. In the same way some of our ‘empty’ thoughts growing by external reflections and repetitions may produce an ‘empty’ reality.

 

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