- Night Lantern (2014)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for piano and CD
The "dreamy textured" tape (electronic process by the composer) builds on improvisations by the great soloist Manos Avarakis, playing harmonicas, recorders and the exotic kalimba, all recorded over a period of time specially to be used in creating this piece
Click here to listen to the piece (YouTube).
- Dance (2012)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for youth symphony orchestra
ca. 3'00"
This piece was premiered in 2015 by the UMBC Symphony under the direction of E. Michael Richards, and the video recording is linked below.
Click here to view a performance (YouTube).
- In Limbo (2016)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for cello and piano
In limbo: a state of uncertainty or unresolved status, inbetween a sense of fleeting moments.
- The Steelworkers (2012)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for 3 trumpets, trombone, and percussion
ca. 8'30"
"The Steelworkers" was composed in the Autumn of 2012 and was inspired by the nine-month long Greek steelworkers strike that was then underway. This was a historical strike which will be remembered, among other reasons, for taking place at such a unique moment, in Greece being forced to enter the memorandum of understanding that bring extreme and inhuman measures into a society that was in a state of shock. In the work I tried to express my feelings and thoughts arising from this major conflict, the individual issues and fluctuations which were to remain with us for such a long time, and the images in my mind of the workers inside the factory. The steelworkers fought throughout all these months with incomparable strength, resistance, self-denial, collectivity and solidarity - with huge costs to their own lives that were to become evident for those who continued to followed the story in the years that followed.
Click here to listen to the piece (YouTube).
- I Have Done With Phrases (2010)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for soprano, bass, portative, hand gong, and electronics
Dedicated to Tobias Schlierf and Effie Minakoulis
- Words Without Words (2006)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for 2-channel tape
ca. 4'30"
The piece explores the parallel world which exists while dreaming, the hidden secrets of the subconscious. We encounter a whole scenery of voices talking in a language full of emotions, feelings, messages--messages which are not clear in the everyday language of the conscious mind but are definitely perceived through other paths. The title was inspired by a short poem of Samuel Beckett “e’coute-les”. The piece is based on vocal samples created mainly by the composer herself, using extended vocal techniques. Source material recorded from performances by the singers Tobias Schlierf and Dora Petridi.
Words without Words was selected for the EBU Ars Acustica 20th anniversary CD.
Click here to listen to the piece.
- Moveable Types (2004)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for two cellos
- MESA sto mesa ("INSIDE the inside") (2006)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for actress, flute, cello, video, and tape
- Me tropo ypeniktiko ("In an Allusive Way") (2002)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for percussion (4 players), and pre-recorded synthesizer
- Rabila Co (2001)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for percussion (4 players), and tape
- Clepsydra Mm (2009)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for flute, clarinet, percussion, and electronics
This piece has a narrative character obviously connected with time as all the stories. I cannot not specify the story that it tells as it was more or less abstract in my mind during the composition of the piece. However, the path after some time revealed itself and became clear. The live instruments are always in a dialogue with the tape. It was part of the project “3x3 Contemporary Music from Greece and the USA”.
Clepsydra is the Greek word for hourglass.
- The Mirror (2007)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for solo piano
5 miniatures
This piece was commissioned by the “Living Composers Project” (London, 2007) for a concert where all the pieces had the same commitment , 5 short miniatures for solo piano. “The Mirror” was inspired by a poem with the title “It is me” written by a Greek poet-psychologist, Eirini Protopapadaki. Vagueness, detection, conflicts, shadows, contradictions, senses: each miniature follows a path related to these terms.
- Mia fora ki enan kero... (Once Upon a Time) (2006)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for cello and tape
- Vides yia stravoxyla ("Cranky Pasta Recipe") (2006)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for soprano, saxophone, cello, tuba, piano, and actress
ca. 10'30"
- Workshop of Dreams (2005)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for flute, clarinet, cello, piano, and percussion
Written for amateur players or players unaccustomed to contemporary music
- The Mystery of r/r/r (2009)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for piano quartet (violin, viola, cello, and piano)
The piece, written in 2004, is built from three parts with bridge passages between each part in the form of solo piano sections. The mystery refers to my esoteric world at that time as well as to several abstract senses that I could not explain to myself. The ostinato of the third part is based on a Greek word meaning 'unsolved', with the mystery ending up in this way.
The linked video recording was performed by Airi Yoshioka (violin), Maria Lambros (viola), Gita Ladd (cello), and Audrey Andrist (piano).
Click here to view a performance (YouTube).
- Arithmosofia-Arithmoplixia (2003)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for one violin, three cellos, and two basses
In ancient times people discovered that the study of numbers and their relation between them could lead them to wisdom, to the knowledge of holy rules--the universal laws?--and to the growth of their mentality. ARITHMOSOFIA .
What are numbers for us today? An endless expression of quantity? What happened to their previous quality? It seems that we are living in a cataclysm among thousands crazy numbers, which “allow” us to communicate. ARITHMOPLIXIA.
So, this piece had the meaning to show the huge distance between the wisdom of "number" (arithmos-sofia) in ancient times and its devolution nowadays where you use it and you hear it everywhere and all the time in a crazy, absurd way. The exaggeration of the text in the second movement shows this frenetic reality.
The piece was selected in 2004 for the annual contemporary music workshops held in the Athens Megaron concert hall and organized by the Greek Composers' Union under the direction of Theodore Antoniou.
Click here to view the score (English).
Click here to view the score (Greek).
- Stigmi-Anadrasi ("Moment-Feedback") (2002)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for string quartet
ca. 4'45"
- HUMANUS ZPKO9/3-Phase experiment (2001)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for recorder and tape
ca. 7'15"
A scientific experiment in a lab. Scientists have created a humanomorphus being and an animal. The being is called HUMANUSZPKO9. The experiment takes place in 3 phases and the piece refers to the procedure of these phases (observations of the scientists and reactions of the HUMANUS).
The piece is dedicated to Patrick Richmond who is performing.
- Inconsistency (2000)
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Sofia Kamayianni
for piano, cello, and small percussion
ca. 7'15"