`ARCHITEXTURES` for strings (2020)
“Architextures” is an attempt to explore the famous saying by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen“. The structure of the piece is actually just a hint of what is concealed within a seemingly simple melodic line. The compositional technique used is a mega-canon, which reveals all the harmonic ramifications of that particular melodic line, as uncovered by its exact repetition with a fixed one-bar step, much like in a building structure, when a certain geometric feature repeated many times creates a certain architectural feature.
This creates a natural-acoustic equivalent of an electronic delay, like a sort of “acoustic corridors”, of which the whole structure is built. The intended effect is to achieve a special kind of resonance field, which changes it`s characteristics each time the texture is altered, as if the listener was walking through different types of architectural structures.
